
Events in the year 2014 in
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
.
Incumbents
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President of Israel
The president of the State of Israel (, or ) is the head of state of Israel. The president is mostly, though not entirely, ceremonial; actual executive power is vested in the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet led by the Prime Minister of Israel, pr ...
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Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres ( ; ; born Szymon Perski, ; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 t ...
until 27 July,
Rubi Rivlin
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Prime Minister of Israel
The prime minister of Israel (, Hebrew abbreviations, Hebrew abbreviation: ; , ''Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma'') is the head of government and chief executive of the Israel, State of Israel.
Israel is a parliamentary republic with a President of Isra ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has served as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime min ...
(
Likud
Likud (, ), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (), is a major Right-wing politics, right-wing, political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing par ...
)
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Government of Israel
The Cabinet of Israel (; ) is the cabinet which exercises Executive (government), executive authority in the State of Israel. It consists of Minister (government), ministers who are chosen and led by the Prime Minister of Israel, prime ministe ...
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33rd government of Israel
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President of the Supreme Court –
Asher Grunis
Asher Dan Grunis ( ; born January 17, 1945) was the President of the Supreme Court of Israel between 2012 and 2015. He was appointed to the position on February 28, 2012, after the retirement of Dorit Beinisch. He retired from the bench in Januar ...
*
Chief of General Staff –
Benny Gantz
Benjamin Gantz ( ; born 9 June 1959) is an Israeli politician and retired army general. He served as a Minister without portfolio#Israel, minister without portfolio from 2023 to 2024, as the Ministry of Defense (Israel), minister of defense bet ...
Events
January
* January 2 – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon goes into critical condition following
renal failure
Kidney failure, also known as renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney fa ...
after being in a
coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to Nociception, respond normally to Pain, painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal Circadian rhythm, sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate ...
since 2006.
* January 11 – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dies at the age of 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a
stroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...
.
* January 13 –
State funeral
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of
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon ( ; also known by his diminutive Arik, ; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestin ...
.
* January 20 –
Revenge porn
Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of individuals without their consent, with the punitive intention to create public humiliation or character assassination out of revenge against the victim. The material ma ...
becomes illegal in Israel.
* January 26 – According to Lebanese and Syrian opposition sources, Israel carries out an airstrike in the city of
Latakia
Latakia (; ; Syrian Arabic, Syrian pronunciation: ) is the principal port city of Syria and capital city of the Latakia Governorate located on the Mediterranean coast. Historically, it has also been known as Laodicea in Syria or Laodicea ad Mar ...
. The target is allegedly S-300 missiles.
February
* February 24 – Israel allegedly carries out two airstrikes against
Hezbollah
Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. I ...
facilities in
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
near the border with
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...
.
March
* March 2 – Much of Jerusalem is paralyzed when hundreds of thousands of
ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against a draft bill that would require many of them to serve in the military.
* March 5 – In
Operation Full Disclosure, the Israeli military seizes the ''
Klos C'' cargo vessel in the
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...
. Israel says the weaponry found on board, including long-range rockets, was destined for militants in
Gaza and had been sent by
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
.
* March 12 –
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981.
PIJ formed as an offsh ...
fires more than 50 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, the most intense barrage launched from the Gaza Strip since November 2012, after the killing of three of their militants who were about to carry out an attack near Khan Younis the day before. In response, Israel launches airstrikes on 29 targets in Gaza.
* March 18 – An Israeli jeep traveling on the
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in t ...
near the Syrian border comes under attack when an explosive device is detonated in its vicinity. One soldier is seriously wounded, and another three soldiers sustain light-to-moderate injuries. The
IDF returns fire across the border following the incident. Israel responds by carrying out multiple airstrikes against Syrian targets, including a military headquarters, artillery batteries and a training base of the Syrian army.
May
* May 1 –
Shelly Dadon is abducted and murdered by an
Israeli Arab
The Arab citizens of Israel form the country's largest ethnic minority. Their community mainly consists of former Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925, Mandatory Palestine citizens (and their descendants) who continued to inhabit the territory ...
cab driver.
* 8 May –
Mei Feingold represents
Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “
Same Heart” reaching the semi-final round.
June
* June 12 – Three Israeli teens are
kidnapped and killed and Israeli officials believe
Hamas
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (the Arabic acronym from ), is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islam, Sunni Islamism, Islamist political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has Gaza Strip under Hama ...
is behind the abductions. The three murdered teens are Gilad Shaer, 16 (from Talmon), Naftali Frankel, 16 (from Nof Ayalon), and Eyal Yifrah, 19 (from Elad). Frankel was a dual Israeli-American citizen.
* June 22 – An attack in the Golan Heights killed an Israeli teenager from the Arab village of
Arraba. Israel responded with airstrikes against Syrian troops, killing four Syrian soldiers and wounding nine.
July
* July 8 – Israel launches
Operation Protective Edge, a series of airstrikes against Gazan militants, followed by a ground invasion.
* July 10–19 –
Israel men's national lacrosse team
The Israel men's national lacrosse team is governed by the Israel Lacrosse Association. Their best finish was at the 2016 European Lacrosse Championship, winning the silver medal. Israel finished in 7th place at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championsh ...
competed in the
2014 World Lacrosse Championship
The 2014 World Lacrosse Championship was held July 10–19 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park outside Denver, Colorado. 38 nations played 142 games in this international men's lacrosse championship tournament organized by the Federation of Internat ...
, their first entrance into the tournament, finishing 7th
* July 29-August 2 –
Israel national baseball team
The Israel National Baseball Team () represents Israel in international competitions. It is managed by Ian Kinsler.
At the 2017 WBC, Team Israel came in 6th. In 2022, Israel was ranked 20th in the world. The Israel national baseball team compete ...
competed in the C-Level qualifier for the
2016 European Baseball Championship
The 2016 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament organized by Confederation of European Baseball. The 2016 European Championship was held from September 9 to 18, 2016 in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. It was organized by ...
, finishing in first place
August
* August 4 –
2014 Jerusalem tractor attack
* August 31 – The IDF shot down a drone that entered Israeli-controlled airspace from the Quneitra region in Syria. Army sources said the drone likely belonged to the military of the Assad government, and strayed into Israeli airspace by accident.
October
* October 22 –
First Jerusalem vehicular attack, car ramming by Arab terrorist killing an infant and a young woman.
* October 29 –
Yehuda Glick
Yehudah Joshua Glick (; born 20 November 1965), alternatively spelled "Yehuda Glick", is an American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician, described as a "right-wing" or "far-right" activist. As the President of Shalom Jerusalem Foundat ...
, an activist for Jewish rights at the
Temple Mount
The Temple Mount (), also known as the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem, Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a ...
, was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
November
* November 5 –
Second Jerusalem vehicular attack, a Palestinian terrorist used his car to deliberately drive into a crowd of Israelis, killing two.
* November 10
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Killing of Sergeant Almog Shiloni, a Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli soldier at a railroad station in Tel Aviv.
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Alon Shvut stabbing attack, a Palestinian stabbed three Israelis at the entrance to the settlement of
Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut () is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, established in June 1970 over lands confiscated from the nearby State of Palestine, Palestinian town of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah. It is part of the Gush Etzion, Etzion bloc of the West Ban ...
in
Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion (, ' Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1943� ...
, killing a young woman and wounding two others.
* November 18 –
Jerusalem synagogue massacre, two Arabs attacked a synagogue in West Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, killing four rabbis and a police officer.
December
* December 7 – It was reported that Israel carried out airstrikes near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas. The target was allegedly S-300 missiles which were en route to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Ongoing
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''2014 Jerusalem unrest'', (also referred as the ''Silent Intifada, Firecracker intifada, Jerusalem intifada, Third intifada, Silent Intifada'')
Notable deaths
* January 11 –
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon ( ; also known by his diminutive Arik, ; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestin ...
, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1928)
* January 13 –
Menachem Zilberman, Israeli actor, comedian, and songwriter (born 1946)
* January 19 –
Azaria Alon, Israeli award-winning environmentalist (born 1918)
* January 24 –
Shulamit Aloni
Shulamit Aloni (; 27 December 1927 – 24 January 2014) was an Israeli politician. She founded the Ratz (political party), Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party, Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition from 1988 to 1990, ...
, Israeli politician and former Minister of Education (born 1928)
* February 3 –
Barry Rubin
Barry M. Rubin (Hebrew: בארי רובין) (28 January 1950 – February 3, 2014) was an American-born Israeli writer and academic on terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.
Career
Rubin was the director of the Global Research in International Af ...
, American-born Israeli academic and columnist (born 1950)
* February 23 –
Samuel Sheinbein, American-Israeli murderer (born 1980)
* March 14 –
Meir Har-Zion
Meir Har-Zion (; February 25, 1934 – March 14, 2014) was an Israeli military Commando (military), commando.
As a key member of Unit 101, he was highly praised by Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan who described him as "the finest of our commando soldie ...
, Israeli commando (born 1934)
* March 7 –
Victor Shem-Tov
Victor Shem-Tov (; ; 1 February 1915 – 8 March 2014) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Born in Bulgaria to a family of Samokov goldsmiths, Shem-Tov mostly lived in the capi ...
, Israeli politician, former Minister of Health and Minister of Welfare (born 1915)
* April 11 –
Ron Pundak, Israeli journalist and historian, architect of the
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. They marked the st ...
(born 1955)
* May 1 –
Assi Dayan
Assaf "Assi" Dayan (; 23 November 1945 – 1 May 2014) was an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.
Life
Dayan was the youngest son of Israeli general and defense minister Moshe Dayan and peace activist Ruth Dayan (née Sch ...
, Israeli filmmaker and actor, son of
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan (; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of General Staff (Israel), Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defe ...
(born 1945)
* June 19 –
Avraham Shalom, former head of the
Shin Bet
The Israel Security Agency (ISA; , (GSS); ), better known by the Hebrew acronyms, acronyms Shabak (; ; ) or Shin Bet (from the abbreviation of , "Security Service"), is Israel's internal Security agency, security service. Its motto is "''Magen ...
(born 1928)
* June 30 – The bodies of the
3 missing teenagers were found near
Halhul
Halhul (, transliteration: ''Ḥalḥūl'') is a Palestinian city located in the southern part of the West Bank, north of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate of Palestine. The town, bordered by Sa'ir and al-Shuyukh to the east, Beit Ummar and ...
* July 8 –
Shlomo Schmelzer, Israeli businessman (born 1947)
* July 9 –
David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist (born 1922)
* August 8 –
Menahem Golan
Menahem Golan (; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israelis, Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid ...
, Israeli film director and producer, winner of the Israel Prize (born 1929)
* August 16 –
David Glass, Israeli politician (born 1936)
* September 3 –
Meni Pe'er, Israeli actor and television host (born 1946)
* October 1 –
Shlomo Lahat, former mayor of Tel Aviv (born 1927)
* November 1 –
Shabtai Teveth
Shabtai Teveth (; 1925 – 1 November 2014) was an Israeli historian and author.
Teveth was born in 1925 and grew up in the worker' quarters at the Migdal Tzedek quarry, where his father worked, near Petah Tikva. He began working as a journali ...
, Israeli journalist and historian (born 1925)
See also
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Israel at the 2014 Winter Olympics
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List of Israeli films of 2014
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Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2014
References
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