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1971 in Israel
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1971
Events in the year 1971 in Israel.
Incumbents
President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
Prime Minister of Israel – Golda Meir (Alignment)
President of the Supreme Court – Shimon Agranat
Chief of General Staff – Haim Bar-Lev
Government of Israel – 15th Government of Israel
Events
12 January – Security forces arrest approximately 60 suspected espionage and sabotage operatives in Judea and Samaria.כרוניקה של אירועים בטחוניים - 1971 Chronicle of Security Events - 1971 https://www.goldameir.org.il/index.php?cs=5053&dir=site&langpage=heb&page=content 2026-01-28 www.goldameir.org.il he
15 January – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) kills 10 militants in raids on multiple bases near Sidon in southern Lebanon; six soldiers are injured.
3 March – The Israeli Black Panther Party (IBPP) holds its first public protest outside a municipal building in Jerusalem, demonstrating against housing discrimination affecting Mizrahi Jews, and demanding the release of activists arrested in police raids.Papouchado Tali 2021-12-16 The Israeli Black Panther Party and Anticolonialism https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/58aeeb7e06b845ffb5d127698a9c0ceb 2026-01-28 ArcGIS StoryMaps en
11 April – Members of the IBPP stage a hunger strike at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to demand meetings with government officials over poverty, housing inequality, and social discrimination.
15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=coEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PbcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2978,4495694&dq=elrom&hl=en Archived copy 20 September 2016 21 July 2012 https://archive.today/20120721231150/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=coEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PbcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2978,4495694&dq=elrom&hl=en dead
4 June – Israel announces the exposure of a Syrian espionage network in the Golan Heights.
12 July – The Jordanian army launches a major operation against Palestinian militants, as the Cairo Agreement is annulled.
23 August – The IBPP hold a protest in Zion Square, burning an effigy of Prime Minister Meir in the process.
13 October – Two Israeli soldiers are killed by a mine in the Golan Heights.
Notable births
15 January – Inbal Perlmutter, Israeli musician (died 1997).
30 January – Assaf Amdursky, Israeli singer.
13 February – Alon Harazi, Israeli footballer.
7 March – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer.
12 April – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer.
Notable deaths
4 April – Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir (born 1910), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
6 June – Yitzhak Tabenkin (born 1888), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
10 July – Chaim Sheba (born 1908), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli physician.
19 July – Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (born 1901), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist.
7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born Haredi Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.
28 August – Reuvein Margolies (born 1889), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.
1 September – Mordechai Ofer (born 1924), Polish-born Israeli politician.
17 October – Shimon Bejarano (born 1910), Bulgarian-born Israeli politician.
12 December – Yechezkel Kutscher (born 1909), Austro-Hungarian (Slovakia)-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.
Full date unknown
Yehoshua Bertonov (born 1879), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli stage actor.
Hillel Oppenheimer (born 1899), German-born Israeli professor of botany.
Major public holidays
Public holidays in Israel
See also
1971 in Israeli film
1971 in Israeli television
1971 in Israeli music
1971 in Israeli sport
References
External links
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