2016 in Israel
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Incumbents
- President: Reuven Rivlin
- Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Chief of General Staff: Gadi Eizenkot
- Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
Events
January
- January 1 – Tel Aviv shooting
February
- February 12-21 – Israel sent 2 athletes to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
March
- March 8 - Tel Aviv stabbings
- March 23 – Yisrael Beitenu formally joins the Thirty-fourth government of Israel
- March 24 – Hebron shooting incident
May
- May 27 – First ever Miss Trans Israel
June
- June 8 – Tel Aviv shooting
July
- June 6-10 – Israel sent 17 athletes to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
- June 28-August 6 – Israel men's national lacrosse team competed in the 2016 European Lacrosse Championship, winning the silver medal.
August
- August 5–21 – 47 athletes from Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- August 29 - Opening of the Migdal HaEmek – Kfar Baruch Railway Station
September
- September 1 – AMOS 6 satellite is destroyed during launch testing
- September 2-4 - Israel national American football team competed in the European Championship of American football for the first time, losing both of their games
- September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase
- September 23 - Israel qualified for the 2017 World Baseball Classic
November
- November 22 – November 2016 Israel wildfires
December
- December 12 – Israel received its first pair of F-35 Lightning II from the United States.[1]
Deaths
- February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936)[2]
- March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General. (b. 1945)
- August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936)[3]
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)
