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2017 in Israel
Summary
The following lists events in the year
2017 in Israel
.
←
2016
2015
2014
2017
in
Israel
→
2018
2019
2020
Decades:
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also:
History of Israel
Timeline of Israel history
List of years 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
until 26 October,
Esther Hayut
Chief of General Staff
–
Gadi Eizenkot
Events
edit
January
edit
January 8 –
Jerusalem vehicular attack
February
edit
February 6 – The Knesset passed the
Regulation Law
60 to 52
March
edit
March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the
2017 World Baseball Classic
March 17 –
Israel–Syria incident
April
edit
April 14 –
Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing
May
edit
13 May –
Imri Ziv
represents
Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest
with the song “
I Feel Alive
”.
[1]
15 May – Launching of
Israeli Broadcasting Corporation
with stations
KAN 11
and
Makan 33
22 May –
Donald Trump
the
President of the United States
visits the
Western Wall
[2]
24 May – Celebration of the 50th
Jerusalem Day
June
edit
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
edit
4–17 July – The
20th Maccabiah Games
are held with 10,000 athletes from Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world competing in 45 sports.
[3]
July 14 –
Temple Mount shooting
July 21 –
Halamish stabbing attack
July 23 – Israeli embassy in
Amman attack
August
edit
August 2 –
2017 Yavne attack
August 19 –
Israel at the 2017 Summer Universiade
began
August 31 – Israel hosted the
EuroBasket 2017 Group B
December
edit
December 6 – The
White House
announces that
Donald Trump
will officially recognize
Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel.
[4]
Deaths
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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
edit
^
"Israel fails to wow at Eurovision as Portugal scores surprise win".
The Times of Israel
. 2017-05-13.
^
Diamond, Jeremy
. "Trump makes historic visit to Western Wall".
CNN
. Retrieved
2017-08-21
.
^
"Twentieth Maccabiah".
Maccabiah 21
.
^
"Trump to go ahead with Jerusalem move despite 'red line' warning".
ABC News
. 2017-12-06
. Retrieved
2017-12-07
.
See also
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
2017 in Israel
.
Israel portal
Asia portal
Modern history portal
2017 in the Palestinian territories
List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017