2008 in Israel

none 2008 Events in the year 2008 in Israel. Incumbents President of Israel – Shimon Peres Prime Minister of Israel – Ehud Olmert President of the Supreme Court – Dorit Beinisch Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi Government of Israel – 31st Government of Israel Events thumb|19 May: Boaz Ma'uda performs at the Eurovision Song Contest. thumb|right|150px|8 July: The Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites January 21 – The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-8 is launched.http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4681651&c=MID&s=AIR Israel Launches Ofeq-9 Satellite Barbara Opall-Rome June 22, 2010 June 22, 2010 Defense News https://archive.today/20120907071249/http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4681651&c=MID&s=AIR September 7, 2012 dead January 21 – The senior lecturers' strike at the Israeli universities ends. January 30 – The final Winograd Commission report is announced in Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem.https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1423315761.html?dids=1423315761:1423315761&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+30%2C+2008&author=DAN+IZENBERG&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Winograd+to+issue+final+report+today.+Harsh+judgment%2C+no+sanctions+expected+regarding+Second+Lebanon+War+errors&pqatl=google https://web.archive.org/web/20121104215303/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1423315761.html?dids=1423315761%3A1423315761&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&date=Jan%2B30%2C%2B2008&author=DAN%2BIZENBERG&pub=Jerusalem%2BPost&desc=Winograd%2Bto%2Bissue%2Bfinal%2Breport%2Btoday.%2BHarsh%2Bjudgment%2C%2Bno%2Bsanctions%2Bexpected%2Bregarding%2BSecond%2BLebanon%2BWar%2Berrors&pqatl=google dead 4 November 2012 Jerusalem Post Dan Izenberg Winograd to issue final report today. Harsh judgment, no sanctions expected regarding Second Lebanon War errors January 30, 2008 30 December 2010 April 24 – The United States claims North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by Israeli forces in September 2007.http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jY_Oahi_SwfNoL2puDyglm7HaVwg https://web.archive.org/web/20080501010647/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jY_Oahi_SwfNoL2puDyglm7HaVwg dead May 1, 2008 AFP: US charges NKorea-Syria nuclear link April 24, 2008 September 9, 2011 April 28 – Israeli satellite Amos-3 is launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome space launch facility in Kazakhstan. May 4 – Former Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson is indicted with a string of crimes including breach of trust, aggravated fraud, theft, forgery of corporate documents and money laundering. May 12 – Israeli police raid the Jerusalem city hall to seize documents related to alleged bribes received by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from businessman Moshe Talansky.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7397066.stm BBC News Police seize more Olmert papers May 13, 2008 21 August 2010 24 May – Boaz Ma'uda represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “HaEsh BaEinayikh” ("The Fire in Your Eyes "), achieving 9th place.https://www.diggiloo.net/?2008il 2008 Israel – The fire in your eyes (Ke'ilu kan) Diggiloo ThrushShechnik Raz Eurovision: Israel comes in 9th Ynetnews 2008-05-25 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3547366,00.html July 8 – Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites.https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1220/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110903171204/http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1220 dead Bahá'i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee UNESCO World Heritage Centre September 3, 2011 UNESCO World Heritage Centre May 28, 2019https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-08-06-bahai-unesco_N.htm Baha'i gardens named world heritage site - USATODAY.com www.usatoday.com July 16 – Hezbollah swaps the bodies of the Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in exchange for the Lebanese Druze terrorist, Samir Kuntar, four Hezbollah prisoners captured during the 2006 Lebanon war and the bodies of 199 Palestinian Arab and Lebanese fighters. July 30 – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announces that he would not seek re-election as party leader and that he would resign from his position as Prime Minister immediately after a new Kadima leader was named. One reason for resignation is the corruption scandal in which Olmert is embattled.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7533855.stm BBC News Israeli PM to quit within months July 30, 2008 21 August 2010 September 17 – Foreign Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni is selected as the new leader of the Kadima party, putting her in position to possibly become the first female Prime Minister of Israel since Golda Meir.https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLH62065120080917 Reuters Israel's Livni set for power after party vote September 17, 2008 21 August 2010 September 21 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submits his resignation to President Shimon Peres. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni begins talks on forming a new government.Israel's Olmert hands in formal resignation AP. December 16 – 24 Russian tourists are killed when their bus plummets into a ravine near Eilat in southern Israel, making this road accident the deadliest in the state's history.https://www.jpost.com/EditionFrancaise/Home.aspxservlet/Satellite?cid=1228728219835&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull https://archive.today/20120708041254/http://www.jpost.com/EditionFrancaise/Home.aspxservlet/Satellite?cid=1228728219835&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull dead Israel News - Online Israeli News Covering Israel & The Jewish World … 8 July 2012 8 July 2012 December 27 – Population Census: 7,465,500 inhabitants in Israel. 75.5% of them are registered as Jewish (about 5,634,300 people), 20.3% of them are registered as Arabs (about 1,513,200 people), while the remaining 4.2% (about 318,000 people) are registered as "others".http://www.cbs.gov.il/mifkad/census2008_e.pdf The 2008 Israel Integrated Census of Population and Housing: Basic conception and procedure Kamen Charles S. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 1 1 October 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20081028203850/http://www.cbs.gov.il/mifkad/census2008_e.pdf 28 October 2008 Israeli–Palestinian conflict Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2008 The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 2008 include: August 25 – Israel releases 199 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, as the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, visits the area.http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpyT722Opigm_Q4o_kBRSUEUyH1A Israel to free Palestinian prisoners as Rice arrives AFP August 24, 2008 September 9, 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110520164045/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpyT722Opigm_Q4o_kBRSUEUyH1A May 20, 2011 Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets thumb|right|The site of when an east Jerusalem Palestinian Arab resident used a construction loader to perpetrate the Jerusalem bulldozer attack on July 2, 2008 Palestinian political violence#The strengthening of Hamas (2005 – present) List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2010 List of Palestinian suicide attacks#2008 (2 bombings) Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2008 The most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 2008 include: January 24 – Two Palestinian Arabs infiltrate a religious seminary and stab three students in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion before being shot dead.http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/01/2008525143555242327.html Settlers 'kill Palestinian raiders' – Middle East Al Jazeera English January 25, 2008 September 9, 2011 January 24 – Palestinian Arab gunmen open fire on Israelis outside the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officer and seriously wounding a female officer.Mcquaid Elwood https://www.jpost.com/home/article.aspx?id=89999 Policeman killed by terrorists outside Jerusale... JPost – Israel Jerusalem Post January 24, 2008 September 9, 2011 February 4 – 2008 Dimona suicide bombing: A suicide attack carried out by Hamas at a shopping centre in Dimona, Israel. One Israeli elderly woman is killed in the attack while nine other people are wounded (one of them critically). Hamas claims responsibility for the attack.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/06/israelandthepalestinians.international London The Guardian Hamas says it was behind suicide blast in Israel Rory McCarthy February 6, 2008 27 August 2010 February 27 – Over 46 Qassam rockets are fired by Palestinian Arab militants into the Western Negev and Israel's Southern Mediterranean coast, many of them hit the city of Ashkelon and the town of Sderot, among other Israeli towns and villages in the area. One of the rockets that lands in a parking lot at the Sapir Academic College killing 47-year-old Israeli student, Ronni Yechia.https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3512267,00.html ynet הפלסטינים: 2 נערים נהרגו בתקיפת צה"ל בעזה – חדשות Ynet.co.il June 20, 1995 September 9, 2011 March 6 – Mercaz HaRav massacre: Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian Arab attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-06-israeli-shooting_N.htm Killing of 8 at Jewish seminary threatens latest truce efforts March 6, 2008 USA Today March 15, 2009 April 19 – Kerem Shalom suicide bombing: Three Palestinian Arab car suicide bombers used two jeeps and an APC to break through the border fence to attack the Kerem Shalom IDF post, blowing themselves up and wounding several Israeli soldiers. Hamas claims responsibility.https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1465817331.html?dids=1465817331:1465817331&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=Apr+20%2C+2008&author=Rushdi+abu+Alouf%3B+Ashraf+Khalil&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THE+WORLD%3B+Palestinian+militants+attack+a+key+Gaza+border+crossing%3B+Three+gunmen+die+and+16+soldiers+are+injured.+Israel+accuses+Hamas+of+trying+to+cut+off+supplies+to+the+strip.&pqatl=google https://web.archive.org/web/20121104220902/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1465817331.html?dids=1465817331%3A1465817331&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE%3AFT&type=current&date=Apr%2B20%2C%2B2008&author=Rushdi%2Babu%2BAlouf%3B%2BAshraf%2BKhalil&pub=Los%2BAngeles%2BTimes&desc=THE%2BWORLD%3B%2BPalestinian%2Bmilitants%2Battack%2Ba%2Bkey%2BGaza%2Bborder%2Bcrossing%3B%2BThree%2Bgunmen%2Bdie%2Band%2B16%2Bsoldiers%2Bare%2Binjured.%2BIsrael%2Baccuses%2BHamas%2Bof%2Btrying%2Bto%2Bcut%2Boff%2Bsupplies%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bstrip.&pqatl=google dead 4 November 2012 THE WORLD; Palestinian militants attack a key Gaza border crossing; Three gunmen die and 16 soldiers are injured. Israel accuses Hamas of trying to cut off supplies to the strip April 20, 2008 30 December 2010 May 14 – A Katyusha rocket is fired at the Israeli city of Ashqelon striking a clinic on the third floor of the Huzot shopping mall, serious wounding three people, moderately wounding two and with eleven other people suffering minor wounds. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claims responsibility.Associated The https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983435.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080601224055/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983435.html dead June 1, 2008 Gaza rocket hits Ashkelon mall; several people hurt Haaretz Israel April 2, 2008 September 9, 2011 June 6 – An Israeli man is killed and four other people are wounded when Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fire a mortar shell at kibbutz Nirim in the western Negev desert.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-girl-6-killed-as-israel-retaliates-for-fatal-kibbutz-attack-841405.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-girl-6-killed-as-israel-retaliates-for-fatal-kibbutz-attack-841405.html 2022-05-01 subscription London The Independent Ibrahim Barzak Palestinian girl, 6, killed as Israel retaliates for fatal kibbutz attack June 6, 2008 27 August 2010 July 2 – Jerusalem bulldozer attack: A Palestinian Arab resident of east Jerusalem attacks several cars on the Jaffa Road in Jerusalem using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a bulldozer in the media), killing three people and wounding at least 30 other pedestrians, before being shot to death.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7485022.stm BBC News Deadly Jerusalem bulldozer attack July 2, 2008 30 December 2010 September 22 – Jerusalem BMW attack: At least 19 people are wounded when a Palestinian Arab drives his car into a crowd of IDF soldiers at a busy intersection in Jerusalem.19 hurt as terrorist plows car into Jerusalem crowd https://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023443.html September 22, 2008 September 22, 2008 Haaretz https://web.archive.org/web/20080923193708/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023443.html 23 September 2008 dead The driver is shot and killed at the scene by an Israeli soldier.Palestinian drives into crowd, injures 15, police say http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/22/jerusalem.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories September 22, 2008 September 22, 2008 CNN News https://web.archive.org/web/20080923083839/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/22/jerusalem.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories 23 September 2008 live Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets October 2010 thumb|right|Israeli F-16i of the 107th Squadron preparing for take-off during Operation Cast Lead, December 2008 The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 2008 include: February 5 – Israel launches an attack on Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip, killing eight Hamas members, after Hamas claimed responsibility for the Dimona attack.http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8UK99JO0 ap.google.com October 9, 2010September 2016 medicmedic February 28 – March 3 – Operation Hot Winter: Israel Defense Forces military campaign in the Gaza Strip is launched in response to the constant firing of Qassam rockets from the Strip by Hamas militants. 110 Palestinians killed, among them 54 children.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7274929.stm BBC News Israeli Gaza operation 'not over' March 3, 2008 31 December 2010 March 12 – Israeli commandos kill four Palestinian militants in the West Bank including three members of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL12784717 Reuters Israeli troops kill 4 militants in W.Bank – medics March 12, 2008 9 October 2010 December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009 – Operation Cast Lead: A large-scale three-week IDF military campaign in the Gaza Strip seriously damages the paramilitary infrastructure of Hamas. Israel claims that the strikes are a response to frequent Qassam rocket and mortar fire from the Strip on Israel's southern civilian communities. The conflict resulted in between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths (4 from friendly fire). Notable deaths thumb|right|upright|Dan Shomron thumb|right|Ralph Klein January 8 – Moshe Levi (born 1936), Israeli Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1983–1987) – stroke.Former IDF chief of staff Moshe Levy dies YNet News, January 8, 2008 January 18 – Uzi Cohen (born 1952), Israeli Likud politician – heart attack.Uzi Cohen, renowned Likud activist, dies aged 55 Haaretz February 26 – Dan Shomron (born 1937), Israeli general, Chief of the Israel Defense Forces (1987–1991) – stroke.General Dan Shomron The Times On-Line, February 27, 2008 February 26 – Aharon Amir (born 1923), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli author and translator – natural causes.Israel Prize laureate Aharon Amir diesJune 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes Jerusalem Post, February 29, 2008 April 1 – Mosko Alkalai (born 1931), Romanian-born Israeli actor – respiratory failure.In Appreciation: Moscu Alkalai, 1931–2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20110917060841/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207238168610&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 2011-09-17 Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2008 April 1 – Shosh Atari (born 1949), Israeli radio presenter and actress – heart attack.Radio broadcaster Shosh Atari dies YNet News, April 2, 2008 April 20 – Nissan Nativ (born 1922), Dutch-born Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.Nissan Nativ dead at 86 YNet News, April 20, 2008 April 26 – Yossi Harel (born 1918), Israeli Haganah member, a commander of many illegal immigrants ships headed towards Palestine during the Mandate period, including the ship SS Exodus – cardiac arrest.https://archive.today/20120708081955/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208870497183&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Exodus commander Yossi Harel dies at 90 Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2008 May 9 – Shmuel Katz (born 1914), South African-born Israeli writer, historian and journalist.Former Herut MK Shmuel Katz, 93, Passes Away Israel National News, May 9, 2008 May 24 – Adam Baruch (born 1945), Israeli journalist, writer and art critic – diabetes complications.Critic and journalist Adam Baruch passes away at age 63 Haaretz, May 25, 2008 June 1 – Tommy Lapid (born 1931), Yugoslav (Vojvodina, Serbia)-born Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004) – cancer.Former Shinui Party Chairman Yosef (Tommy) Lapid Dead at 77 Israel National News, June 1, 2008 August 7 – Ralph Klein (born 1931), German-born Israeli basketball player and coach – intestinal cancer.Basketball coach Ralph Klein dies at 77 YNet News, August 7, 2008 August 19 – Binyamin Gibli (born 1919), Israeli head of military intelligence.Former MI chief Binyamin Gibli dies YNet News, August 19, 2008 August 25 – Josef Tal (born 1910), German-born Israeli composer – natural causes.Komponist Josef Tal gestorben Spiegel On-Line, August 25, 2008 August 27 – Abie Nathan (born 1927), Iranian-born Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.Abie Nathan – Maverick entrepreneur and anti-war activist in Middle East politics The Guardian, August 29, 2008 September 1 – Oded Schramm (born 1961), Israeli mathematician – fall.Rescuers Recover Hiker's Body Seattle PI, September 3, 2008 September 16 – Avraham Biran (born 1909), Israeli archaeologist – natural causes.The Remarkable Avraham Biran (1909–2008) https://web.archive.org/web/20100706030853/https://www.bib-arch.org/news/biran-obit.asp 2010-07-06 Biblical Archaeological Review, October 21, 2008 October 27 – Zvi Keren (born 1917), American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer. November 17 – Yaakov Alperon (born 1955), Israeli organized crime mobster – car bomb.Israeli 'mafia' boss assassinated BBC News, November 17, 2008 November 27 – Gideon Gechtman (born 1942), Egyptian-born Israeli artist – heart failure.Artist Gideon Gechtman passed away https://web.archive.org/web/20081204071914/http://www.nrg.co.il/online/5/ART1/817/636.html 2008-12-04 . Maariv November 28, 2008. he See also 2008 in Israeli film 2008 in Israeli television 2008 in Israeli music 2008 in Israeli sport Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2008 in the Palestinian territories References 30em External links 2008 in Category:2000s in Israel Israel Israel Category:Years of the 21st century in Israel