2024 in Israel

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Events of the year 2024 in Israel.

## Incumbents[edit]

* President of Israel – Isaac Herzog
* Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu
* President of the Supreme Court – Uzi Vogelman
* Chief of General Staff – Herzi Halevi
* Government of Israel - Thirty-seventh government of Israel

## Ongoing[edit]

* 2023 Israel–Hamas war

## Events[edit]

### January[edit]

* 1 January –
* Hamas fires a barrage of at least 27 rockets shortly after midnight at cities and towns in central and southern Israel.[1][2]
* The Supreme Court of Israel strikes down the reasonableness limitation law, part of the government's contentious judicial reform, for the first time in the country's history annulling one of the country's quasi-constitutional Basic Laws in a controversial decision splitting the court 8-7.[3]
* 2 January – Israel conducts an airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau.[4]
* 3 January – The Supreme Court delays the implementation of an amendment to a Basic Law that would protect the prime minister from being forced to recuse himself if ordered to do so by the attorney general or the supreme court, by postponing implementation until after the next Knesset is elected, so that it does not apply retroactively to the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for several charges of corruption.[5]
* 7 January – An Arab Israeli man is killed and a woman is critically injured by a Palestinian gunman north of Jerusalem.[6]
* 8 January – Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy commander of Hezbollah's Redwan Force, in Majdel Selm, Lebanon is killed in a presumed Israeli airstrike following increasing violence along the Israel-Lebanon border since Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles over the border following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.[7]
* 9 January – Hezbollah launches a drone attack on the Northern Command headquarters in Safed, marking its deepest incursion into Israeli territory since the outbreak of hostilities and Israel retaliates by killing Ali Hussein Barji, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for dozens of explosive drone attacks on northern Israel in recent months.[8]
* 11 January – South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention): A two-day public hearing begins at the Peace Palace in The Hague regarding alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention and international law in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.[9][10]
* 14 January –
* Approximately 120,000 people attended the start of a 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square to mark 100 days since the hostages were kidnapped into Gaza during the Hamas led terror onslaught in southern Israel on October 7.[11]
* An Israeli woman and her son are killed by an anti-tank missile which penetrated their home in Yuval in the Galilee near the Israel-Lebanon border.[12]
* 15 January – A woman is killed and 17 are severely injured in a stabbing and vehicle ramming attack in Ra'anana by two Palestinian illegal workers from Hebron.[13]
* 22 January – In the single deadliest incident for the IDF since the start of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza, twenty-one Israeli soldiers were killed when they came under attack in the southern Gaza Strip, triggering a blast that collapsed two buildings with soldiers inside them.[14]
* 26 January – In the case brought by South Africa , the International Court of Justice issues a preliminary order calling on Israel to "take all measures within its power" to prevent genocide and prevent and punish incitement to genocide in Gaza and allow in more humanitarian aid, while taking more measures to protect Palestinians and to report back in one month, but is not required to end military operations.[15]
* 31 January – Yuval Freilich wins the men's gold medal in fencing in Qatar, a country that does not have ties with Israel and wearing a shirt with the words “Am Yisrael Chai” (the people of Israel live) embossed in Hebrew on the Israeli flag.[16][17]

### February[edit]

* 1 February – U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order imposing sanctions on four Israeli settlers in the West Bank who are implicated in acts of violence against Palestinians in the region.[18]
* 3 February – Sharon Kantor wins the gold medal at the iQFOiL World Championships in the Canary Islands, securing her spot on the Israeli team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, while team-mate Katy Spychakov wins the bronze medal.[19]
* 4 February – Most of Israel experiences 14 continuous days of rainfall for the first time in 30 years, raising the water level of the Sea of Galilee by 26 centimeters (10.2 inches), with more increases expected, but without flooding. [20]
* 6 February – Argentinian President, Javier Milei makes his first overseas state visit to Israel to express support for Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza and announces that he will move Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem.[21][22][23]
* 10 February – The IDF announces that it discovered a Hamas data center under UNRWA's Gaza Strip headquarters.[24][25]
* 11 February – Hamas announces the death of two Israeli hostages and says that eight others have been seriously injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in the past 96 hours.[26]
* 12 February – Israeli special forces conduct a raid on a building in Rafah in southern Gaza, rescuing two Israeli-Argentinian who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on 7 October by Hamas; 134 hostages remain in captivity.[27][28]
* 14 February –
* The Hostages and Missing Families Forum files a complaint of war crimes against the leadership of Hamas at the International Criminal Court.[29]
* A rocket attack from Lebanon kills one civilian and injures eight others in Safed. Several rockets also hit the headquarters of the IDF's Northern Command.[30]
* 16 February – 2024 Kiryat Malakhi attack, 2024 Re'em Junction shooting
* Two people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a bus station near Kiryat Malachi. The perpetrator is killed by an off-duty IDF reservist.[31][32]
* 18 February –
* The Cabinet of Israel adopts a resolution opposing unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, following comments from France and the United Kingdom that they were considering such a move.[33]
* Channel 12 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will restrict Palestinian citizens of Israel's access to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan due to security concerns.[34]
* 19 February – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says that Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is persona non grata in Israel until he retracts his comments likening the war between Israel and Hamas to the Holocaust.[35]

### Scheduled[edit]

* 27 February – 2024 Israeli municipal elections[36][37]

## Holidays[edit]

Further information: Public holidays in Israel

Source:[38]

* 23 April - Passover
* 29 April - Seventh day of Passover
* 14 May - Independence Day
* 12 June - Feast of Shavuot
* 3 October – Rosh Hashanah
* 12 October – Yom Kippur
* 17 October – Sukkot
* 24 October – Simchat Torah

## Art and entertainment[edit]

* List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## Deaths[edit]

* 2 January – Zvi Zamir,(b. 1925) Soldier in the Palmach and officer in the Israel Defense Forces, director of the Mossad (1968–1974).[39]
* 6 January – Sabetai Unguru (b. 1931), historian of mathematics and science, professor, and director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University .[40]
* 13 January – Ran Poliakine (b. 1967), business, wireless power industry executive, founder of Powermat Technologies.[41]
* 15 January – Dror Kashtan (b. 1941), football player (Hapoel Petah Tikva, national team) and manager (national team).[42]
* 18 January – Amnon Rubinstein (b. 1931), politician, MK (1977–2002), minister of communications (1984–1987) and education (1993–1996), winner of the Israel Prize for Legal Studies (2006).[43]
* 19 January – Raymond Apple (b. 1935), Australian-Israeli rabbi.[44]
* 22 January – Lior Lubin (b. 1977), basketball player (Ironi Ramat Gan, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv) and coach.[45]
* 25 January – Bat-Sheva Dagan, (b. 1925), Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator and author.[46]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Israel-Hamas war: New Year's rocket barrage launched at Israel". The Jerusalem Post. 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
2. ^ Ben-David, Ricky; Sharon, Jeremy; Sharon, Jeremy (2024-01-01). "At stroke of midnight, Hamas attacks Israel with heavy New Year rocket barrage". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
3. ^ Sharon, Jeremy; Ben-David, Ricky (2024-01-01). "In historic ruling, High Court strikes down key judicial overhaul legislation". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
4. ^ "Hamas deputy head killed in alleged Israeli drone strike in Beirut". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
5. ^ Morag, Gilad (3 January 2024). "Supreme Court delays law shielding prime minister from forced recusal". Ynetnews.
6. ^ "East Jerusalem man killed in West Bank terror shooting". Times of Israel.
7. ^ "Senior Hezbollah commander killed in alleged Israeli strike as border tensions mount". The Times of Israel. 8 January 2024.
8. ^ Fabian, Emmanuel (9 January 2024). "IDF: Hezbollah drone chief behind attacks on north killed in Israeli strike". The Times of Israel.
9. ^ "Israel calls SA accusations to ICJ baseless lies, historically hypocritical". Ynetnews. 2024-01-11.
10. ^ "S. Africa genocide case is 'a libel,' aimed 'to deny Israel the right to defend itself'". The Times of Israel. 2024-01-12.
11. ^ Steinberg, Jessica (2024-01-14). "'Enough!': 120,000 attend 24-hour rally for hostages' release after 100 days in Gaza". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
12. ^ Fabian, Emanuel; Davidovich, Joshua (2024-01-14). "Elderly woman and her son killed at home in Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
13. ^ Fabian, Emanuel (2024-01-15). "Woman killed, 17 wounded in car-ramming, stabbing spree by 2 terrorists in Ra'anana". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
14. ^ Fabian, Emanuel (2024-01-23). "In deadliest incident of Gaza combat, 21 soldiers killed as buildings collapse in blast". The Times of Israel.
15. ^ Kathleen Magramo; Rob Picheta; Aditi Sangal; Adrienne Vogt (2024-01-26). "Live updates: Israel-Hamas war rages, hostages talks, Gaza crisis". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
16. ^ "Hong Kong, China's Kong, Israel's Freilich Win Qatar Women's and Men's Epee Grand Prix". International Fencing Federation. 2024-02-01.
17. ^ "'Hatikva' in Qatar: Israel fencer Yuval Freilich wins gold, en route to Paris Olympics". The Times of Israel. 2024-02-01.
18. ^ "US sanctions Israeli settlers over West Bank violence". 2024-02-01. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
19. ^ Zenziper, Nadav (2024-02-03). "Israeli star windsurfer Sharon Kantor crowned world champion". ynetnews.
20. ^ Surkes, Sue (2024-02-04). "Israel sees 14 straight days of rainfall for first time in over 30 years". The Times of Israel.
21. ^ "Argentinian President Pledges To Move Embassy To Jerusalem". I24news. 2024-02-06.
22. ^ Berman, Lazar (2024-02-06). "In first bilateral visit, Argentina's Milei says he will move embassy to Jerusalem". The Times of Israel.
23. ^ Eichner, Itamar (2024-02-06). "Argentine President in tears at Western Wall; says embassy to move to Jerusalem". ynetnews.
24. ^ Board, The Editorial. "Opinion | Hamas Was Right Under Unrwa's Nose". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
25. ^ Laznik, Jacob (2024-02-10). "IDF finds Hamas command tunnel under UNRWA Gaza HQ". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
26. ^ Kathleen Magramo; Jack Guy; Deva Lee; Antoinette Radford; Aditi Sangal (2024-02-12). "Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Israeli forces launch Rafah airstrikes". CNN. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
27. ^ "Daring raid led to major success in war as 2 hostages rescued alive". israelhayom.com. 2024-02-12. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
28. ^ Fabian, Emanuel (2024-02-12). "IDF rescues 2 hostages from south Gaza's Rafah in daring nighttime operation". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
29. ^ "Families of hostages visit international court to urge the arrest of Hamas leaders". Sun Sentinel. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
30. ^ "IDF engages in wave of attacks on Hezbollah after IDF soldiers wounded". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
31. ^ Boxerman, Aaron (2024-02-16). "Gunman Opens Fire at Bus Stop in Israel, Killing at Least 2". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
32. ^ Fabian, Emanuel (2024-02-16). "Two killed, 4 hurt in terror attack at Re'em Junction in south Israel; gunman dead". The Times of Israel.
33. ^ "Rebuffing Biden, cabinet rejects unilateral Palestinian state as 'reward for terrorism'". The Times of Israel. 2024-02-18. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
34. ^ "Israeli police and Shin Bet 'disagree on Al-Aqsa restrictions' over Ramadan". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
35. ^ "Israel condemns Brazil's Lula likening Gaza war to Holocaust". 2024-02-18. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
36. ^ Keller-Lynn, Carrie (23 October 2023). "Wartime Knesset pushes municipal elections to January 30, instead of next week". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
37. ^ Algemeiner, The (2024-01-01). "Israel Postpones Local Elections as Hundreds of Soldiers Serving in Gaza War Unable to Run". Algemeiner.com. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
38. ^ "Israel Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
39. ^ "Zvi Zamir, Mossad director during Yom Kippur War, dies at 98". The Jerusalem Post. 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
40. ^ "אונגורו שבתאי" [Sabetai Unguru]. Haifa Burial Society (in Hebrew). 2024-01-06.
41. ^ וינרב, גלי (2024-01-14). "היזם הסדרתי רן פוליאקין הלך לעולמו בגיל 56" [Serial entrepreneur Ran Poliakine dies aged 56]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-15.
42. ^ "Скончался Дрор Каштан, самый титулованный израильский футбольный тренер". NEWSru.co.il (in Russian). 2024-01-15. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
43. ^ "Former Minister And Israel Prize Winner, Amnon Rubinstein, Passes Away At 92". I24news. 2024-01-18.
44. ^ Staff, Ajn. "Rabbi Raymond Apple passes away in Jerusalem". www.australianjewishnews.com. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
45. ^ "בגיל 46 בלבד: ליאור ליובין הלך לעולמו - וואלה! ספורט". וואלה! (in Hebrew). 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
46. ^ האתר, מערכת. "חולון נפרדת מיקירת העיר בת שבע דגן| שתפו | אתר גל גפן". גל גפן (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-25.

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