2017 in Israel

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Incumbents

• President – Reuven Rivlin
• Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
• Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot
• Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel

Events

January

• January 8 – Jerusalem vehicular attack

February

• February 6 – The Knesset passed the Regulation Law 60 to 52

March

• March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the 2017 World Baseball Classic
• March 17 – Israel–Syria incident

April

• April 14 – Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing

May

• May 15 – Launching of Israeli Broadcasting Corporation with stations KAN 11 and Makan 33
• May 22 – Donald Trump the President of the United States visits the Western Wall[1]
• May 24 – Celebration of the 50th Jerusalem Day

June

• June 4 – Opening of the Assuta Ashdod Medical Center
• June 16 – Jerusalem attack
• June 24 – Kick off of the 2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four

July

• July 4 – Opening ceremony for the 2017 Maccabiah Games
• July 14 – Temple Mount shooting
• July 21 – Halamish stabbing attack
• July 23 – Israeli embassy in Amman attack

August

• August 2 – 2017 Yavne attack
• August 19 – Israel at the 2017 Summer Universiade began
• August 31 – Israel hosted the EuroBasket 2017 Group B

December

• December 6 – The White House announces that Donald Trump will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.[2]

Deaths

• January 1 – Yaakov Neeman (born 1939), lawyer and politician, former Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance
• January 13 – Ari Rath (born 1925), journalist and editor, former editor of The Jerusalem Post
• January 22 – Moshe Gershuni (born 1936), painter and sculptor
• February 5 – Gila Goldstein (born 1947), actress, singer and activist
• March 2 – David Rubinger (born 1924), photographer who took a famous photograph of Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall
• March 24 – Avraham Sharir (born 1932), politician and government minister
• May 1 – Yisrael Friedman (born 1923), Romanian-born Israeli rabbi
• July 23 - Amir Fryszer Guttman (born 1976) Singer and Gay rights activist died while saving his niece from drowning.

References

1. Diamond, Jeremy. "Trump makes historic visit to Western Wall". CNN. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
2. "Trump to go ahead with Jerusalem move despite 'red line' warning". ABC News. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2017-12-07.

See also

• 2017 in the Palestinian territories
• List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017