2007 in Israel

Summary

The following events occurred in the year 2007 in Israel.

2007
in
Israel

Decades:
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
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Incumbents edit

Events edit

Israeli–Palestinian conflict edit

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 2007 include:

 
Israel participates in the Annapolis Conference, November 27, 2007

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 2007 include:

  • January 29 – Eilat bakery bombing: A Palestinian Arab suicide bomber from the Gaza Strip infiltrates the northern suburbs of Eilat, Israel. Upon seeing the police approaching, he ducks into a neighbourhood bakery and detonates his bomb, killing the three men employed there – all Israeli Jews.[14]
  • May 2 – Hamas and Islamic Jihad launch at least 18 rockets into Israel, damaging a road, hitting a car in a commercial center of Sderot, killing an Israeli woman and lightly wounding 2 others.
  • May 21 – A man is killed in Sderot after a rocket landed near the car in which he was sitting.
  • September 10 – Two Qassam rockets are fired from Beit Hanun at the Zikim Army Base in Israel located near the Gaza Border. One of them lands safely in the Negev, but the other lands near unfortified barracks (Zikim military base) at the base where Israeli recruits were sleeping. This resulted in at least 66 wounded, with at least 10 moderately to seriously. 69 soldiers were wounded by the rocket, 60+ of them had only light-to moderate shrapnel wounds, but four of them were injured seriously. One of the four had to have his leg amputated, and another was in a critical condition. Both Islamic Jihad and PRC claimed responsibility.[15][16]

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets

The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 2007 include:

Notable deaths edit

 
Yuri Stern
 
Yisrael Poliakov

See also edit

References edit

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  11. ^ "Middle East | Israel to release Fatah prisoners". BBC News. June 25, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  12. ^ "Middle East | Freed Palestinians welcomed home". BBC News. July 20, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  13. ^ "Middle East | Israel to release 450 prisoners". BBC News. November 19, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  14. ^ "Three dead in Israel suicide bomb". BBC News. January 29, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  15. ^ "67 wounded in Qassam attack". Ynet. September 11, 2007.
  16. ^ "Olmert 'won't play into Hamas hands'". The Jerusalem Post. September 2007. Archived from the original on August 13, 2011.
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  18. ^ "Israel launches raids into Gaza". BBC News. May 17, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
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  20. ^ Legendary Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek to be laid to rest in J'lem
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