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Israel

285 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

281 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
  • 195428 September – The Israeli government's attempt for the Israeli ship "Bat Galim" to traverse the Suez Canal fails after the ship is arrested by the Egyptian authorities. This attempt is made after Egypt prevented other Israeli ships and foreign cargo ships headed towards Israeli ports, of passing through the Suez Canal, in violation with the terms of the Convention of Constantinople.Israelsource
  • 195622 October – Israel, Britain and France secretly meet in Sèvres, France, and make plans to invade Egypt.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
  • 196031 January – Operation Tawfiq (פעולת תאופיק): The first Israeli retribution operation initiated after the Suez Crisis. The operation is carried out by Golani forces on the Syrian village of Tawfiq, in response to attacks on Israelis in Tel Katzir. Tawfiq was designated by the IDF as the center of many Syrian attacks and as a result it was decided that the destruction of the village was vital. During the operation, the village is conquered and destroyed while being attacked by Syrian artillery. Six Syrian and three Israeli soldiers are killed during the operation and seven Israeli soldiers are wounded.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
  • 197030 December – The Neot HaKikar disaster (אסון נאות הכיכר): the worst natural disaster since the founding of the State of Israel. A rock detaches from a cliff due to heavy rains and crushes an IDF military base dining room. 20 Israelis are killed in the disaster (19 soldiers and a civilian) and ten soldiers were injured (three of them severely).Israelsource
  • 19722 April – Eyal Berkovic, Israeli footballer.Israelsource
  • 19748 September – TWA jet with 88 passengers traveling from Tel Aviv to Athens crashed into the Ionian Sea after PFLP militants detonated a bomb hidden in the baggage compartment, killing all the 79 passengers and 9 crew members on board.Israelsource
  • 197625 April – Markus Reiner (born 1886), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli scientist.Israelsource
  • 197916 November – Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (born 1886), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli author, educator, and a leading Labor Zionist.Israelsource
  • 198124 July – American mediator Philip Habib brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the PLO, temporarily halting the Lebanese Civil War.Israelsource
  • 19849 May – Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (born 1900), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books.Israelsource
  • 19861 January – The New Israeli shekel (NIS) replaces the old shekel as Israel's official currency.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, 2000 CE to 2024 CE

  • 2000March 12–26 – Pope John Paul II visits Israel, and thus becomes the second pope to visit Israel. During his stay, the Pope visits Yad Vashem (the Israeli national Holocaust memorial) and the Western Wall placing a letter inside it in which he prayed for forgiveness for the actions against Jews in the past.Israelsource
  • 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
  • 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