2016 in Israel
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Other events of 2016 List of years in Israel Timeline of the region of Palestine Timeline of Israeli history |
Incumbents
- President: Reuven Rivlin
- Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Chief of General Staff: Gadi Eizenkot
- Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
Events
March
- March 23 – Yisrael Beitenu formally joins the Thirty-fourth government of Israel
August
- August 5–21 – 47 athletes from Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September
- September 1 – AMOS 6 satellite is destroyed during launch testing
- September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase
November
- November 22 – November 2016 Israel wildfires
Deaths
- February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936)[1]
- March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General.
- August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936)[2]
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)
References
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