The following lists events in the year 2017 in Israel.

Incumbents

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Reuven Rivlin Reuven "Ruvi" Rivlin ( ; born 9 September 1939) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the president of Israel between 2014 and 2021. He is a member of the Likud party. Rivlin was Minister of Communications from 2001 to 2003, and su ...

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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 ...

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* President of the Supreme Court –

Miriam Naor Miriam Naor (; 26 October 1947 – 24 January 2022) was an Israeli judge who was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from January 2015 to October 2017. Naor retired at the end of October 2017 upon reaching the mandatory judicial retirement ...

until 26 October, Esther Hayut * Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot

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

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* 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”. * 15 May – Launching of Israeli Broadcasting Corporation with stations

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Makan 33 Makan 33 (; ) is an Israeli Arabic-language free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal an ...

* 22 May –

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...

the

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visits the

Western Wall The Western Wall (; ; Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: ''HaKosel HaMa'arovi'') is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name ...

* 24 May – Celebration of the 50th

Jerusalem Day Jerusalem Day (, ) is an Public holidays in Israel, Israeli national holiday that commemorates the "reunification" of East Jerusalem (including the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City) with West Jerusalem following the Six-Day War of 1967, which s ...

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 The 2017 Israeli Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 2016–17 Israeli Basketball Super League. It was the eight Israeli Final Four. The Event was held in the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes ...

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. * 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

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announces that

will officially recognize

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as the capital of Israel.

Deaths

* January 1 –

Yaakov Neeman Yaakov Israel Neeman (; 16 September 1939 – 1 January 2017) was an Israeli lawyer who served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance, although he was never a member of the Knesset. Biography Neeman was born to a religious Zionist fam ...

(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 ''

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'' * January 22 – Moshe Gershuni (born 1936), painter and sculptor * February 5 – Gila Goldstein (born 1947), actress, singer and activist * March 2 –

David Rubinger David Rubinger (; 29 June 1924 – 2 March 2017) was an Israeli photographer and photojournalist. His famous Paratroopers at the Western Wall, photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the recapture of the Western Wall has become an iconic imag ...

(born 1924), photographer who took a famous photograph of Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall * March 24 –

Avraham Sharir Abraham Sharir (‎; 23 December 1932 – 24 March 2017) was an Israeli politician. Biography Sharir was born in 1932 in Iași in Kingdom of Romania, where he attended high school. After immigrating to Palestine in the 1940s, he studied law at ...

(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.