Events in the year 1991 in Israel.
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Events
- 1 January â Gulf War curfew in Palestine: Israel imposes a 24-hour curfew on the occupied Palestinian territories to prevent demonstrations marking the anniversary of FatahâÂÂs founding; four Palestinians are killed after breaking the curfew.
- 17 January â Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 22 January â Gulf War: Three Scuds and one Patriot strike Ramat Gan in Israel, wounding 96 people, as three elderly people die of heart attacks.
- 6 February â Israeli warplanes carry out airstrikes against Palestinian guerrilla positions linked to the PLOâÂÂs Fatah faction in southern Lebanon near Sidon, in response to several days of Katyusha rocket attacks on IsraelâÂÂs security zone.
- 25 February â The final Scud missile barrage against Israel occurs, ending the direct missile threat from Iraq shortly before the Gulf War ceasefire.
- 1 April â Ehud Barak is appointed as the 14th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
- 4 May â Duo Datz represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song âÂÂKanâ ("Here"), achieving third place.
- 24âÂÂ25 May â Operation Solomon is carried out, a large-scale airlift that evacuated approximately 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel within roughly 36 hours, as rebel forces close in on Addis Ababa.
- 30 October - 1 November â The Madrid Conference is held in the Spanish capital Madrid, aimed at promoting the peace process between Israel, the Palestinian Arabs and Arab countries. The conference is hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the United States and the USSR.
- 16 December â United Nations General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, which had equated Zionism with a form of racism. Israel had made revocation of resolution 3379 a condition for Israel's participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.
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