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Israel

287 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Israel, 1948 CE to 2024 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

20th century

283 entries, 1948 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1948May 14 – The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made in Tel Aviv, a few hours before the British Mandate is due to expire. At midnight the British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated and the State of Israel comes into being.Israelsource
  • 1948December 8 – Benny Morris, Israeli historian and professor.Israelsource
  • 195021 June – The port of Eilat on the Red Sea is inaugurated with the arrival a ship from Aden containing Torah scrolls and religious articles transferred from the Jewish community of Yemen to Israel.Israelsource
  • 19501 August–14 August – In protest against the rationing policy of the Austerity program, shopkeepers begin a two-week strike.Israelsource
  • 1952Full date unknown – Zeev Ben-Zvi (born 1904), Russian (Polish)-born Israeli sculptor.Israelsource
  • 195426 February – Yuli Tamir, Israeli academic and former politician.Israelsource
  • 19568 May – Israel and Austria establish diplomatic relations.Israelsource
  • 195713 July – Shmuel Tajer (born 1868), Sofia-born merchant, one of the founders of Tel Aviv. Grandfather of MK Avraham Katz-Oz and grand-grandfather of MK Erel Margalit.Israelsource
  • 195819 August – The first International Bible Contest is held - in the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.Israelsource
  • 19597 April – Israel created the first Holocaust Memorial Day by vote of the Knesset in Tel Aviv, to be observed on the 27th day of Nisan, which fell on 5 May in 1959. If the 27th falls on a Friday, the observation is held on the 26th.Israelsource
  • 19615 July – The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched.Israelsource
  • 19638 June – Haim Boger (born 1876), Russian (Crimea)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.Israelsource
  • 19641 February – Eli Ohana, Israeli football manager and former football player.Israelsource
  • 196625 January – Saul Adler (born 1895), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli physician, microbiologist and parasitology expert.Israelsource
  • 1969The founding of the moshav Ohad.Israelsource
  • 19706 September - Dawson's Field hijackings: simultaneous attempts to hijack four airliners by Palestinian militants belonging to the PFLP. Two planes landed in Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan. A hijacking attempt on an El Al flight was thwarted and an American hijacked plane is diverted to Cairo and blown up after the passengers evacuated.Israelsource
  • 19722 April – Eyal Berkovic, Israeli footballer.Israelsource
  • 1974The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Haruv.Israelsource
  • 197619 September – Yehezkel Abramsky (born 1886), Russian (Belarus)-born eminent Israeli Orthodox rabbi.Israelsource
  • 197911 March – Keren Peles, Israeli singer.Israelsource
  • 198028 November – Nachum Gutman (born 1898), Russian (Bessarabia)-born Israeli painter, sculptor and author.Israelsource
  • 198310 February – Emil Grunzweig (born 1947), Romanian-born Israeli teacher and peace activist, killed by a grenade thrown into a Peace Now demonstration.Israelsource
  • 198521 November – Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence analyst who spied for Israeli intelligence, is arrested by the FBI at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington while trying to seek asylum there.Israelsource
  • 198817 January – Education Minister Yitzhaq Navon orders the mobilisation of high school students to assist in the citrus fruit harvest in a crisis caused by the absence of Palestinian Arab workers.Israelsource
  • 1994December 10 – Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receive the Nobel Peace Prize.Israelsource

21st century

4 entries, 2002 CE to 2024 CE

  • 2002June 22 – Operation Determined Path begins.Israelsource
  • 2002April 28 – Two Jewish settlers are arrested attempting to place a bomb at the Maqasid Hospital, Jerusalem.Israelsource
  • 2015October 20–22 – the 37th World Zionist Congress is held in JerusalemIsraelsource
  • 202431 July – Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in a missile strike in Tehran, Iran, after attending the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel admits responsibility for the killing on 23 December.Israelsource