2016 in Israel
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{{Year in Israel|2016}}
The following lists events in the year 2016 in Israel.
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Incumbents
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=
- 14 May – Hovi Star represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Made of Stars”.{{cite web | last=Steinberg | first=Jessica |title=At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th | website=The Times of Israel | date=2016-05-14 | url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-places-14th-at-eurovision-but-another-israeli-wins-6th/}}
- 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-waited-a-long-time-for-its-f-35-jets-then-it-waited-some-more/2016/12/12/2590ab1c-c089-11e6-a52b-a0a126eaf9f7_story.html?noredirect=on|title=Israel finally receives the first of its $5 billion order of U.S.-made F-35 jets|last=Booth|first=William|date=December 12, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Deaths
- February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3680902,00.html|title=אלוף במיל' אביגדור (יאנוש) בן-גל הלך לעולמו|date=13 February 2016}}
- March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General. (b. 1945)
- August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-defense-minister-binyamin-ben-eliezer-dies-at-80/|title = Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80| website=The Times of Israel }}
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)
See also
References
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