1971 in Israel

Events in the year 1971 in Israel.

Incumbents

• President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
• Prime Minister of Israel – Golda Meir (Alignment)
• President of the Supreme Court – Shimon Agranat
• Chief of General Staff – Haim Bar-Lev
• Government of Israel – 15th Government of Israel

Events

• 12 January – Security forces arrest approximately 60 suspected espionage and sabotage operatives in Judea and Samaria.
• 15 January – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) kills 10 militants in raids on multiple bases near Sidon in southern Lebanon; six soldiers are injured.
• 3 March – The Israeli Black Panther Party (IBPP) holds its first public protest outside a municipal building in Jerusalem, demonstrating against housing discrimination affecting Mizrahi Jews, and demanding the release of activists arrested in police raids.
• 11 April – Members of the IBPP stage a hunger strike at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to demand meetings with government officials over poverty, housing inequality, and social discrimination.
• 15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.
• 4 June – Israel announces the exposure of a Syrian espionage network in the Golan Heights.
• 12 July – The Jordanian army launches a major operation against Palestinian militants, as the Cairo Agreement is annulled.
• 23 August – The IBPP hold a protest in Zion Square, burning an effigy of Prime Minister Meir in the process.
• 13 October – Two Israeli soldiers are killed by a mine in the Golan Heights.

Notable births

• 15 January – Inbal Perlmutter, Israeli musician (died 1997).
• 30 January – Assaf Amdursky, Israeli singer.
• 13 February – Alon Harazi, Israeli footballer.
• 7 March – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer.
• 12 April – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer.

Notable deaths

• 4 April – Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir (born 1910), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
• 6 June – Yitzhak Tabenkin (born 1888), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
• 10 July – Chaim Sheba (born 1908), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli physician.
• 19 July – Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (born 1901), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist.
• 7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born Haredi Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.
• 28 August – Reuvein Margolies (born 1889), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.
• 1 September – Mordechai Ofer (born 1924), Polish-born Israeli politician.
• 17 October – Shimon Bejarano (born 1910), Bulgarian-born Israeli politician.
• 12 December – Yechezkel Kutscher (born 1909), Austro-Hungarian (Slovakia)-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.
• Full date unknown
• Yehoshua Bertonov (born 1879), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli stage actor.
• Hillel Oppenheimer (born 1899), German-born Israeli professor of botany.

Major public holidays

See also

• 1971 in Israeli film
• 1971 in Israeli television
• 1971 in Israeli music
• 1971 in Israeli sport

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