2006 in Israel

none 2006 Events in the year 2006 in Israel. Incumbents President of Israel – Moshe Katsav Prime Minister of Israel – Ariel Sharon to January 4, Ehud Olmert President of the Supreme Court – Aharon Barak to 16 September, Dorit Beinisch Chief of General Staff – Dan Halutz Government of Israel – 30th Government of Israel to May 4, 31st Government of Israel Events January 4 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a severe hemorrhagic stroke and falls into a coma. As a result, Sharon's deputy Ehud Olmert begins exercising the powers of the office of Prime Minister. February 1 – The demolition of nine permanent structures in the community settlement Amona in the central West Bank escalates into a violent confrontation between the police and the Special Patrol Unit to the settlers in which hundreds of settlers and dozens of police officers are injured. February 3 – Hezbollah fires some 30 mortar shells at IDF outposts along Israel's northern border, lightly wounding an Israeli soldier. In response, the Israeli Air Force strikes Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-02-03T151204Z_01_L03725805_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-AIRSTRIKE.xml Reuters Pakistan's Sharif declares victory in landmark election May 11, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20050620200549/http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews June 20, 2005 dead mdy-all http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3210485,00.html Hizbullah strikes IDF outposts Yedioth Ahronoth June 20, 1995 September 9, 2011 February 14 – The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court sentences Omri Sharon, the Israeli politician and son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to a nine-month prison term, a nine-month suspended sentence and a NIS 300,000 fine after he is convicted of violating political fund-raising law and providing false testimony.Vered Luvitch http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3216063,00.html PM's son going to jail Yedioth Ahronoth June 20, 1995 September 9, 2011 March 28 – Kadima leader Ehud Olmert declares victory in the 17th Israeli legislative election, ahead of main opponents Labor and Likud.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4855154.stm BBC News Israel result boosts border plan March 29, 2006 October 15, 2014 May 4 – Ehud Olmert presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The 31st government is approved that day and the members were sworn in. 20 May – Eddie Butler represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Together We Are One”.http://www.diggiloo.net/?2006il 2006 Israel – Together we are one (Ze hazman) Diggiloo Thrush 2021-08-26 June 12 – Five people are killed, and about 80 injured, when an Israeli train travelling between Tel Aviv and Haifa collides with a truck on a level crossing near Netanya.http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/12/israel.train/ 5 killed in Israel train crash https://web.archive.org/web/20060616055405/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/12/israel.train/ June 16, 2006 deadhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261796,00.html 5 killed, dozens injured in train crash – Israel News, Ynetnews Yedioth Ahronoth June 20, 1995 September 9, 2011 July 8 – President Moshe Katsav initially complains to the Attorney General of Israel, Menahem Mazuz, that he was being blackmailed by one of his female employees,Dan Izenberg Greer Fay Cashman https://www.jpost.com/Israel/A-G-orders-Katsav-investigation A-G orders Katsav investigation The Jerusalem Post July 11, 2006 October 15, 2014 whom he was later suspected of raping.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/19/israeli-president-moshe-katsav-charged-rape London The Guardian Former Israeli president charged with rape and other sexual offences Rory McCarthy March 19, 2009 October 15, 2014 September 17 – Dorit Beinisch takes office as President of the Supreme Court of Israel, the first woman to hold this position. 2006 Lebanon War: July 12 – Hezbollah militants fire rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two IDF armored Israeli Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. The ambush leaves three IDF soldiers dead. Two other IDF soldiers, believed to have been killed outright or mortally wounded, are snatched by Hezbollah to Lebanon. Five more IDF soldiers are killed in a failed rescue attempt. This event and the escalation that follows lead to the 2006 Lebanon War. July 12 – August 14 – Israel launches Operation Just Reward, a counterattack that began with air force bombing of Hezbollah positions in Southern Lebanon. August 1 – August 2 – Operation Sharp and Smooth – Israel Defense Forces raid a Hezbollah-run hospital in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. August 4 – Tyre raid – Night mission is carried out by the Israel Defense Forces frogmen, Shayetet 13, in the southern Lebanon town of Tyre. It targets the Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera on the previous day. August 11 – August 14 – Operation Changing Direction 11 – Final offensive push by the Israel Defense Forces during the Lebanon War. August 14 – A United Nations-brokered ceasefire goes into effect, which brings an end to the 2006 Lebanon War. Post-war: October 29 – The Attorney-General of Israel delivers a brief to the Supreme Court of Israel arguing that the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, should stand aside pending a possible indictment for rape.http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/AfpNews/200610291754091162115649.52/afp Archived copy August 21, 2010 August 29, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190829112757/https://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/AfpNews/200610291754091162115649.52/afp dead November 12 – Iranian nuclear program: Israel threatens to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities "as a last resort", and the Iranian foreign ministry responds that it would "retaliate with a crushing blow" should Israel act.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6141180.stm BBC News Israel warned off nuclear 'folly' November 12, 2006 Frances Harrison October 15, 2014 November 21 – The Supreme Court of Israel orders the government to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad. November 24 – Serial rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing. His escape launches a nationwide search, involving thousands of Israeli police officers. December 8 – Benny Sela is captured near Nahariya two weeks after his escape. Undated Slonim-Nevo Commission is established. Israeli–Palestinian conflict The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that occurred during 2006 include: January 25 – Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority legislative election. Israel, the United States, the European Union, and several European and Western countries cut off their aid to the Palestinian Authority, as they view the Islamist political party who rejects Israel's right to exist as a terrorist organization. March 23 – Israeli security sources capture the Hamas military commander in the West Bank, Ibrahim Hamed, who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada,http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3254071,00.html Top Hamas fugitive nabbed Efrat Weiss Yedioth Ahronoth May 23, 2006 October 15, 2014 in a Ramallah raid.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5007242.stm Israel captures Hamas commander BBC News May 23, 2006 October 15, 2014 June 9 – An explosion occurs on a Gaza beach, killing eight and injuring thirty Palestinian civilians.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/10/israel Death on the Beach: Seven Palestinians killed as Israeli shells hit family picnic The Guardian London June 10, 2006 Chris McGreal Chris McGreal October 15, 2014'Palestinians killed on Gaza beach', BBC Online, June 9, 2006 The Israeli army and Israeli officials initially took responsibility.Human Rights Watch, Indiscriminate Fire, June 19, 2006 A subsequent investigation by the Israeli Defence Forces blamed the explosion on a Palestinian land mine.Israel denies role in beach blast, NZ Herald, 13 June 2006 This investigation was criticized by Human Rights WatchIsrael: Gaza Beach Investigation Ignores Evidence - Human Rights Watch http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/20/israb13595.htm 19 December 2014 and The Guardian.Chris McGreal The battle of Huda Ghalia - who really killed girl's family on Gaza beach? https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,,1799825,00.html 19 December 2014 the Guardian Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets August 2010 Palestinian political violence#The strengthening of Hamas (2005 – present) List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006#2006 List of Palestinian suicide attacks#2006 (3 bombings) Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2006 The most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 2006 include: January 19 – Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing: 20 Israelis are injured in a bombing at a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv. February 3 – At least three Qassam rockets are fired from Gaza by Palestinian Arab militants at Israeli civilian targets. One rocket strikes a home in Kibbutz Karmia, injuring four people, including a one-year-old infant. The home belongs to a family recently evicted during Israel's 2005 unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.Hanan Greenberg http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3210491,00.html Baby hurt in rocket attack Yedioth Ahronoth June 20, 1995 September 9, 2011 March 28 – For the first time, a Katyusha rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. https://archive.today/20120708045152/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498754886&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull (JPost)(BBC)(MSNBC) Katyushas, frequently used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, had never previously been fired from Gaza. Large numbers of Qassam rockets began landing in the Western Negev in March 2006. March 30 – Kedumim bombing: Four Israelis are killed, including one child, by a Palestinian Arab suicide bomber posing as Jewish hitchhiker, in Kedumim. April 17 – 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombing: A suicide attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad together with Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades near the Old Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. 11 Israelis are killed in the attack while 68 were wounded. June 25 – 2006 Hamas cross-border raid: a group of Hamas militants infiltrate an Israeli army post on the Israeli side of the southern Gaza Strip border after crossing through a tunnel near the Kerem Shalom border, kill two IDF soldiers and manage to capture and abduct the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit back into the Gaza Strip. Shalit has been held as a prisoner in the Gaza Strip by Hamas since then. During the attack, two Palestinian militants involved in the attack were also killed. June 25 – Murder of Eliyahu Asheri: The Palestinian Arab militant group PRC kidnaps and an hour later kills a 19-year-old Israeli tertiary student, Eliyahu Asheri.Jonathan Lis Yuval Azoulay Avi Issacharoff Amos Harel June 27, 2006 https://www.haaretz.com/news/missing-teen-found-dead-buried-in-ramallah-field-1.191469 https://web.archive.org/web/20110521210700/http://www.haaretz.com/news/missing-teen-found-dead-buried-in-ramallah-field-1.191469 dead May 21, 2011 Missing teen found dead, buried in Ramallah field Haaretz October 15, 2014 July 5 – First Qassam rocket of increased strength is fired into the schoolyard in the Southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. This is the first time that rockets capable of reaching a significantly large Israeli city are fired by Palestinian Arabs into Israel and, accordingly, the first instance that such a city is attacked. No one was injured in this attack.Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Hillel Fendel July 5, 2006 http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=106594 PA Rocket Slams Into the Heart of Ashkelon Arutz Sheva https://web.archive.org/web/20060713230205/http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=106594 July 13, 2006 Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets October 2010 The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 2006 include: March 14 – Operation Bringing Home the Goods: IDF military operation in a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho in order to capture several Palestinian Arab prisoners located there who had assassinated the Israeli politician Rehavam Ze'evi. The operation is conducted as a result of the expressed intentions of the newly elected Hamas government to release these prisoners. May 3 – The Israeli Navy foiled an attempt to smuggle some 550 kg of TNT into the Gaza Strip. The smugglers reached Gaza without their cargo, which was recovered at sea by the Israeli Navy.Amos Harel May 10, 2006 https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-foiled-independence-day-attempt-to-smuggle-tnt-into-gaza-1.187325 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924222729/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-foiled-independence-day-attempt-to-smuggle-tnt-into-gaza-1.187325 dead September 24, 2015 IDF foiled Independence Day attempt to smuggle TNT into Gaza Haaretz October 15, 2014 May 14 – The IDF kill Elias al-Ashkar, the senior Islamic Jihad commander in the Jenin area, who was accused of planning several suicide attacks that killed nearly 30 people. Six other Palestinian Arabs are also killed.Yaakov Katz https://www.jpost.com/Israel/IAF-strikes-car-carrying-Jihad-members IAF strikes car carrying Jihad members The Jerusalem Post October 15, 2014Ashley Fantz May 15, 2006 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14581043.htm Broward teen dies of wounds suffered in suicide bombing The Miami Herald https://web.archive.org/web/20060909005050/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14581043.htm September 9, 2006 June 13 – The IDF kill eleven people in a missile strike on a van carrying Palestinian Arab militants and rockets driving through a densely civilian populated area in Gaza.June 14, 2006 Israeli missile kills 11 Palestinians in Gaza http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46191 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155329/http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46191 September 30, 2007 Turkish Daily News Reuters Nine among those killed are civilian bystanders. June 28 – November 26 – Operation Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against militants in Gaza in response to the killing of two soldiers and the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25, 2006, and the firing of Qassam rockets toward Israel.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1522647/Israel-launches-warning-air-strikes-on-Gaza.html Israel launches warning air strikes on Gaza The Daily Telegraph UK Tim Butcher June 29, 2006 July 25, 2009 June 29 – Israeli soldiers arrest 62 Hamas members in the West Bank, including 8 ministers and 20 lawmakers in the Palestinian Authority. Israeli officials announce that the suspects will face standard criminal proceedings.Issacharoff Avi Amos Harel https://www.haaretz.com/news/ag-refuses-to-ok-use-of-hamas-officials-as-bargaining-chips-1.191639 https://web.archive.org/web/20101209080648/http://www.haaretz.com/news/ag-refuses-to-ok-use-of-hamas-officials-as-bargaining-chips-1.191639 dead December 9, 2010 AG refuses to ok use of Hamas officials as 'bargaining chips' Haaretz October 3, 2001 October 15, 2014http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L284483.htm https://archive.today/20060822044048/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L284483.htm dead August 22, 2006 News AlertNet September 9, 2011 November 4 – Operation Autumn Clouds: Israel Defense Forces mount a series of air strikes as part of an ongoing Gaza offensive, killing at least eight.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6115950.stm BBC News Israel mounts air strikes in Gaza November 4, 2006 October 15, 2014https://archive.today/20070312211607/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0D0251AE-E369-47EC-9946-84EA05F51B87.htm (Al Jazeera) November 8 – 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun: An incident in which the Israel Defense Forces' shells hit a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing 19 Palestinian Arabs and wounding more than 40. Israel apologized and attributed the incident to a technical malfunction. Notable deaths thumb|right|Yitzchak Kaduri's funeral in Jerusalem January 28 – Yitzchak Kaduri (b. c.1899), Iraqi-born estimated aged 107, a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist. February 14 – Shoshana Damari (born 1923), Yemeni-born "Queen of Israeli song" – pneumonia.Steven Erlanger https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/arts/music/15damari.html Shoshana Damari, 83, Noted Israeli Singer, Is Dead The New York Times February 15, 2006 October 15, 2014 April 13 – Michael Shir (born 1923), Polish-born Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine, Ezbeoni.https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1098696 he:מייסד "אצבעוני" מת בגיל 83 Founder of Ezbeoni dead at 83 he Haaretz April 14, 2006 October 15, 2014 April 26 – Professor Yuval Ne'eman (born 1925), Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency and former science minister.https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Former-minister-and-scientist-Neeman-dies-at-81 Former minister and scientist Ne'eman dies at 81 The Jerusalem Post April 26, 2006 October 15, 2014https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/world/27neeman.html Yuval Neeman, 80, a Physicist Who Helped Israel Enter Space, Is Dead The New York Times Associated Press April 27, 2006 October 15, 2014 April 28 – Ben-Zion Orgad (born 1926), German-born Israeli composer – cancer.https://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/Composer-Benzion-Orgad-dies-at-80 Composer Benzion Orgad dies at 80 The Jerusalem Post April 29, 2006 October 15, 2014 May 11 – Yossi Banai (born 1932), Israeli singer and actor.https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Actor-singer-Yossi-Banai-passes-away Actor-singer Yossi Banai passes away The Jerusalem Post October 15, 2014 May 19 – Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (born 1906), aged 99, Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born founder of the Israeli Labor Party.Anshel Pfeffer https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Labor-founder-Yitzhak-Ben-Aharon-dies Labor founder Yitzhak Ben-Aharon dies The Jerusalem Post May 19, 2006 October 15, 2014Dennis Hevesi https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/world/middleeast/19aharon.html Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, Kibbutz Founder, Dies at 99 The New York Times June 19, 2006 October 15, 2014 May 23 – Bracha Eden (born 1928), Israeli pianist – brain hemorrhage.Pianist Bracha Eden dies at 78 The Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2006October 2014 June 7 – Joseph Dorfman (born 1940), Soviet-born Russian-Israeli composer of contemporary classical music and a Shostakovich scholar.Valerie J. Nelson https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-16-me-dorfman16-story.html Joseph Dorfman, 65; New Music Composer, Shostakovich Scholar Los Angeles Times June 16, 2006 October 15, 2014 June 25 – Eliyahu Asheri (born 1988), Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists.https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Thousands-attend-Asheris-funeral Thousands attend Asheri's funeral The Jerusalem Post October 16, 2014 June 25 – Gad Navon (born 1922), Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli military rabbi – cancer.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266983,00.html Former Chief Military Rabbi Gad Navon dies Yedioth Ahronoth June 25, 2006 October 15, 2014 July 25 – Ezra Fleischer (born 1928), Romanian-born Israeli poet and professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Ari L. Goldman https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/arts/01fleischer.html Ezra Fleischer, Expert on Hebrew Poetry, Is Dead at 78 The New York Times August 1, 2006 October 15, 2014 August 21 – S. Yizhar (born 1916), Israeli author – heart disease.https://www.haaretz.com/news/author-and-israel-prize-laureate-s-yizhar-dies-at-90-1.195565 https://web.archive.org/web/20110522061946/http://www.haaretz.com/news/author-and-israel-prize-laureate-s-yizhar-dies-at-90-1.195565 dead May 22, 2011 Author and Israel Prize laureate S. Yizhar dies at 90 Haaretz August 21, 2006 October 15, 2014 August 29 – Benjamin Rawitz-Castel (born 1946), Israeli pianist – battered.Matthew Westphal http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5149.html Pianist Benjamin Rawitz Found Murdered in Brussels Apartment Building Playbill Arts September 1, 2006 October 15, 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110526211919/http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5149.html May 26, 2011 mdy November 21 – Eliezer Waldenberg (born 1915), Israeli Haredi rabbi.Matthew Wagner https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Tzitz-Eliezer-passes-away-at-age-of-89 Tzitz Eliezer passes away at age of 89 The Jerusalem Post November 21, 2006 October 15, 2014 December 16 – Pnina Salzman (born 1922), Israeli classical pianist – natural causes.Hagai Hitron December 17, 2006 https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pianist-pnina-salzman-dies-at-84-1.207423 https://web.archive.org/web/20100505172918/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pianist-pnina-salzman-dies-at-84-1.207423 dead May 5, 2010 Pianist Pnina Salzman dies at 84 Haaretz October 15, 2014 December 28 – Gershon Shaked (born 1929), Austrian-born Israeli author and professor of Hebrew literature.Shiri Lev-Ari https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/literary-critic-gershon-shaked-dead-at-77-1.208583 https://web.archive.org/web/20101202204747/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/literary-critic-gershon-shaked-dead-at-77-1.208583 dead December 2, 2010 Literary critic Gershon Shaked dead at 77 Haaretz December 29, 2006 October 15, 2014 December 31 – Ya'akov Hodorov (born 1927), Israeli football goalkeeper – stroke.Allon Sinai https://www.jpost.com/Sports/Legendary-goalkeeper-Hodorov-dies-at-79 Legendary goalkeeper Hodorov dies at 79 The Jerusalem Post January 1, 2007 October 15, 2014 See also 2006 in Israeli film Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Israel at the 2006 Winter Olympics 2006 in the Palestinian territories References 30em External links 2006 in September 2011 Category:2000s in Israel Israel Israel Category:Years of the 21st century in Israel