Memorial of Fallen Soldiers from the Yom Kippur War - Flickr - Israel Defense Forces

Israeli casualties of war, in addition to those of Israel's nine major wars, include 9,745 soldiers and security forces personnel killed in "miscellaneous engagements and terrorist attacks", which includes security forces members killed during military operations, by fighting crime, natural disasters, diseases, traffic or labor accidents and disabled veterans whose disabilities contributed to their deaths. Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000 Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for the independence, preservation and protection of the nation, and 3,971 civilian terror victims. The memorial roll, in addition to

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members deceased, also include fallen members of the

Shin Bet The Israel Security Agency (ISA; he, שֵׁירוּת הַבִּיטָּחוֹן הַכְּלָלִי; ''Sherut ha-Bitaẖon haKlali''; "the General Security Service"; ar, جهاز الأمن العام), better known by the acronym Shabak ( he, ...

security service, the

Mossad Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...

intelligence service, the

Israel Police The Israel Police ( he, משטרת ישראל, ''Mišteret Yisra'el''; ar, شرطة إسرائيل, ''Shurtat Isrāʼīl'') is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fightin ...

, the

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, the Israel Prisons Service, other Israeli security forces, the pre-state Jewish underground, and the

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and the

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(which served alongside British forces in

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and

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respectively). According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the

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, a total of 1,194 Israelis and foreigners were killed and 7,000 wounded between September 2000 and August 2010 by Palestinian terror attacks (most of them during 2000–2005 Second Intifada); while more than 3,000 Israelis have been killed and 25,000 have been wounded as a result of Palestinian violence and hostile enemy action (without including wars) since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 until today. Another 685 Jewish residents of

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

were killed between 1920 and 1947 as a result of Arab riots, British anti-Zionist operations and World War II attacks. Palestinians killed 1,074 Israelis and wounded 7,520 between 2000 and 2005."Do targeted killings work?", Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006, Volume 85, Number 2, p. 95-112 The following tables summarize Israeli casualties by war, conflict or incident.

Prior to Israel's independence

Conflicts with Arabs

Sinking of ships carrying Jewish immigrants

In the

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the British government limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to 75,000 over the following five years. European Jews were anxious for ways to leave Europe, but for the most part there were few options. No countries were willing to take Jewish immigrants. However, some Eastern European states were willing to give transit visas. During

, many countries denied or severely limited Jewish refugees fleeing the

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, and Palestine was one of the few destinations available. In post-Holocaust Europe, the 1,000,000 Jewish survivors were classified as "non-repatrifiable" by the Austrian and German government. In other words, Jews were not "officially allowed to leave the countries of Central and East Europe" by the allied powers, nor were they permitted to settle in Palestine by the British. An unknown number of Jewish refugees perished en route from European ports to Palestine, and over 30,000 holocaust survivors who successfully immigrated were interned by the British in POW camps. Many immigrant ships were sunk during the British blockade. ''Note: Graph is not comprehensive''

Regular conflicts

Bold indicates conflicts considered wars by the

Israeli Ministry of Defense The Ministry of Defense ( he, מִשְׂרַד הַבִּטָּחוֹן, Misrad HaBitahon, Ministry of Security, acronym: he, משהב"ט) of the government of Israel, is the governmental department responsible for defending the State of Isra ...

(as they were named by Israel):

Terror and other attacks 1948-1967

Terror and other attacks 1968–1987

''Note: Table is not comprehensive''

Attacks against Israeli diplomatic missions

Suicide Bombings

HAMAS suicide bombing in Jerusalem on 25 February (DoS Publication 10321)

From 1993 to 2003, 303

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

suicide bombers A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...

attacked Israel. More than 80% of all suicide bombings occurred after the year 2000. 55% of all suicide attacks were deemed "successful" – that is, resulted in killing themselves and injuring or killing others. Suicide bombings constituted just 0.5% of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the first two years of the Second Intifada, though this percentage accounted for half of the Israelis killed in that period.

Avishai Margalit Avishai Margalit ( he, אבישי מרגלית, born 1939) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in ...

br>“The Suicide Bombers,'
at

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, 16 January 2003. Between 2000 and 2006, 521Anti-Israeli Terrorism, 2006: Data, Analysis and Trends
. Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) March 2007 suicide bombing plots were thwarted by the

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and 540 Israelis were killed by suicide bombings.

Non-combat military casualties

171 Israeli soldiers have been killed in training exercises and non-combat roles since 1977.Dershowitz, Alan M.. (28 July 2010
A bitter series of accidents... JPost – Israel
Jpost.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.

Wars ranked by total deaths

Evacuated Casualties of the Yom Kippur War - Flickr - Israel Defense Forces

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by E ...

War of Attrition The War of Attrition ( ar, حرب الاستنزاف, Ḥarb al-Istinzāf; he, מלחמת ההתשה, Milhemet haHatashah) involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies fro ...

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 ...

1982 Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee ( he, מבצע שלום הגליל, or מבצע של"ג ''Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil'' or ''Mivtsa Sheleg'') by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First L ...

Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

Gallery of memorials

File:PikiWiki Israel 5389 beit lid memorial.jpg, Beit Lid memorial File:PikiWiki Israel 5385 memorial to terorist victims in ashdod port.jpg, Ashdod Port memorial File:PikiWiki Israel 5770 Monument of Avivim children.JPG, Avivim school bus memorial File:PikiWiki Israel 7258 munich massacre memorial.jpg, Munich massacre memorial File:תמונה 1166.jpg, Avshalom Feinberg memorial File:Hill 69 memorial, israel.jpg, Hill 69 memorial File:Bus bombing memorial.jpg, Jaffa Road bombing memorial File:Mahal Memorial in Israel.jpg, Mahal memorial File:Ma'alot massacre victims on Zefat Cemetery 19740515 mz 5.jpg, Ma'alot memorial File:Steel Division War Memorial, Israel.jpg, Six-Day War memorial File:PikiWiki Israel 5781 terorists victims memorial.jpg, Coastal Road memorial File:Andartamaxim.jpg, Maxim restaurant massacre memorial File:Latrun-Castle-S-069-7th-Brigade-Memorial.jpg, Latrun memorial File:Water Tower of Be'erot Izhak (1948) in the Negev, Israel.jpg, Be'erot Izhak memorial File:Bus no 5 bombing.jpg, Bus suicide bombing memorial in Tel Aviv File:תמונה 572.jpg, Haganah memorial File:PikiWiki Israel 4972 paratroopers memorial.jpg, Second Lebanon War memorial File:War Memorial in Nirim(Dangur) in the Negev, Israel.jpg, War of Independence memorial File:Dolphinarium memorial.JPG, Dolphinarium massacre memorial File:Knightsofsteelfallen01.jpg, Combat Engineering Corps memorial File:Druzememorial.jpg, Druze soldiers memorial in Daliyat Al-Karmel File:Hagardom.jpg, Olei Hagardom memorial File:Sderot - A Qassam rocket is displayed in Sderot town hall against a background of pictures of residents killed in rocket attacks.jpg, Fatality victims of Palestinian rocket attacks memorial File:BeerSheva Terror Attack memorial 03.jpg, Beersheba suicide terror attack memorial File:Israeli police memorial.jpg, Fallen Israeli policemen memorial File:Handasa-monument01.jpg, Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Israeli Engineering Corp

Gallery

File:Maale Akrabim Massacre.jpg, Ambushed Egged bus of the Ma'ale Akrabim massacre File:Sha'ar hagai armored vehicle1.JPG, Remains of armored supply convoys used during the siege of Jerusalem File:Bombing of tel aviv 2.jpg, Aftermath of an aerial bombing on Tel Aviv during World War II File:House destruction, Hebron 1929.jpg, Scene of destruction in the Jewish Quarter after the

Hebron massacre Hebron massacre may refer to: * 1517 Hebron attacks * Battle of Hebron in 1834 * 1929 Hebron massacre, in the 1929 Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine * 1980 Hebron attack * Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, a 1994 mass shooting also known as the He ...

File:A wounded Israeli Child is taken to hospital after Rocket Attack.jpg,

Qassam rocket The Qassam rocket ( ar, صاروخ القسام ''Ṣārūkh al-Qassām''; also ''Kassam'') is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. These rockets cannot be fired ...

attack on southern Israel File:Ben Yehuda 1948 - 2.jpg, Aftermath of the

Ben Yehuda Street bombing A series of attacks were perpetrated or ordered by Palestinian Arabs, some of them acting as suicide bombers, on Jewish targets in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street from February 1948 onwards. The attacks took place before the declaration of the Sta ...

File:Jerusalem Bulldozer rampage 03.jpg, Aftermath of the Jerusalem bulldozer attack File:Eli Cohen.jpg,

Eli Cohen Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen ( he, אֱלִיָּהוּ בֵּן שָׁאוּל כֹּהֵן‎, ar, إيلياهو بن شاؤول كوهين‎; 6 December 1924 – 18 May 1965), commonly known as Eli Cohen, was an Egyptian-born Israel ...

, an

intelligence agent Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangibl ...

hanged by

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

for espionage. File:1978-bus-attack01.jpg, Charred remains of the hijacked Egged bus during the Coastal Road massacre File:Terror Strikes Israeli Civilians in Southern Israel.jpg, A destroyed bus after being attacked by a suicide bomber during the Southern Israel cross-border attacks.

References

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