23 July – The Israeli legislative election ends. The Alignment party wins a narrow victory, again becoming the largest party in the Knesset, but cannot form a government with any of the smaller parties. As a result, a national unity government with Likud is established. It is agreed that Alignment leader Shimon Peres and Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir will each hold the post of Prime Minister for two years.
12 April – Four Palestinian Arab terrorists hijack an Israeli Egged bus number 300 and hold hostage approximately 40 passengers.
13 April – During an Israeli rescue operation on bus number 300 which had been hijacked the day before, one hostage and two terrorists are killed. Two other terrorists, who are taken off the bus alive, are killed by members of the Shin Bet.
6 August – Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam is abducted by a terrorist cell composed of Israeli-Arabs. He is later murdered.[1] His attackers are arrested and (in 1986) sentenced to life.[2]
19 October – Two terrorists attempt to infiltrate Israel by sea in an inflatable boat. An Israeli patrol boat intercepts them, and in an exchange of fire, the boat is sunk and two Israeli military personnel are injured.
22 October – A terrorist kills two students at the Cremisan Monasterey in Jerusalem.
29 November – A female Israeli soldier, Hadas Kadmi, goes missing; her body would be found two weeks later. Police conclude that she was abducted by terrorists who planned to use her as a bargaining chip to free Palestinian prisoners in Israel. As a result of her abduction, a new directive is issued prohibiting soldiers from hitchhiking at night.
Notable births
7 January – Ran Danker, Israeli actor, singer, and model.
^BEN HARTMAN: 'If this is the beginning of talks, what will be at the end?' ("…on the night of August 6, 1984, when his younger brother Moshe, then only 19, hitched a ride back from his base at the Beit Lid junction with four Israeli Arabs from Baka al- Gharbiya.") -Jerusalem Post, JULY 29, 2013
