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The following lists events in the year 2017 in Israel.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 8 – Jerusalem vehicular attack
February
- February 6 – The Knesset passed the Regulation Law 60 to 52
March
- March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the 2017 World Baseball Classic
- March 17 – Israel–Syria incident
April
- April 14 – Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing
May
- 13 May – Imri Ziv represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “I Feel Alive”.[1]
- 15 May – Launching of Israeli Broadcasting Corporation with stations KAN 11 and Makan 33
- 22 May – Donald Trump the President of the United States visits the Western Wall[2]
- 24 May – Celebration of the 50th Jerusalem Day
June
- June 4 – Opening of the Assuta Ashdod Medical Center
- June 16 – Jerusalem attack
- June 24 – Kick off of the 2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four
July
- 4–17 July – The 20th Maccabiah Games are held with 10,000 athletes from Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world competing in 45 sports.[3]
- July 14 – Temple Mount shooting
- July 21 – Halamish stabbing attack
- July 23 – Israeli embassy in Amman attack
August
- August 2 – 2017 Yavne attack
- August 19 – Israel at the 2017 Summer Universiade began
- August 31 – Israel hosted the EuroBasket 2017 Group B
December
- December 6 – The White House announces that Donald Trump will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.[4]
Deaths
- January 1 – Yaakov Neeman (born 1939), lawyer and politician, former Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance
- January 13 – Ari Rath (born 1925), journalist and editor, former editor of The Jerusalem Post
- January 22 – Moshe Gershuni (born 1936), painter and sculptor
- February 5 – Gila Goldstein (born 1947), actress, singer and activist
- March 2 – David Rubinger (born 1924), photographer who took a famous photograph of Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall
- March 24 – Avraham Sharir (born 1932), politician and government minister
- May 1 – Yisrael Friedman (born 1923), Romanian-born Israeli rabbi
- July 23 - Amir Fryszer Guttman (born 1976) Singer and Gay rights activist died while saving his niece from drowning.
References
- ↑ "Israel fails to wow at Eurovision as Portugal scores surprise win". The Times of Israel. 2017-05-13.
- ↑ Diamond, Jeremy. "Trump makes historic visit to Western Wall". CNN. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
- ↑ "Twentieth Maccabiah". Maccabiah 21.
- ↑ "Trump to go ahead with Jerusalem move despite 'red line' warning". ABC News. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2017 in Israel.
- 2017 in the Palestinian territories
- List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017
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