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The following lists events in the year 2016 in Israel.
Incumbents
[edit]- President – Reuven Rivlin
- Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
- Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
- President of the Supreme Court – Miriam Naor
- Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – Tel Aviv shooting
February
[edit]- February 12-21 – Israel sent 2 athletes to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
March
[edit]- March 8 - Tel Aviv stabbings
- March 23 – Yisrael Beitenu formally joins the Thirty-fourth government of Israel
- March 24 – Hebron shooting incident
May
[edit]- 14 May – Hovi Star represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Made of Stars”.[1]
- May 27 – First ever Miss Trans Israel
June
[edit]- June 8 – Tel Aviv shooting
July
[edit]- June 6-10 – Israel sent 17 athletes to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
- June 28-August 6 – Israel men's national lacrosse team competed in the 2016 European Lacrosse Championship, winning the silver medal.
August
[edit]- August 5–21 – 47 athletes from Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- August 29 - Opening of the Migdal HaEmek – Kfar Baruch Railway Station
September
[edit]- September 1 – AMOS 6 satellite is destroyed during launch testing
- September 2-4 - Israel national American football team competed in the European Championship of American football for the first time, losing both of their games
- September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase
- September 23 - Israel qualified for the 2017 World Baseball Classic
November
[edit]- November 22 – November 2016 Israel wildfires
December
[edit]- December 12 – Israel received its first pair of F-35 Lightning II from the United States.[2]
Deaths
[edit]- February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936)[3]
- March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General. (b. 1945)
- August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936)[4]
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Steinberg, Jessica (2016-05-14). "At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th". The Times of Israel.
- ^ Booth, William (December 12, 2016). "Israel finally receives the first of its $5 billion order of U.S.-made F-35 jets". The Washington Post.
- ^ "אלוף במיל' אביגדור (יאנוש) בן-גל הלך לעולמו". 13 February 2016.
- ^ "Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80". The Times of Israel.
