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The following lists events in the year 2016 in Israel.

Incumbents

President – Reuven Rivlin
Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
President of the Supreme Court – Miriam Naor
Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot

Events

January

January 1 – Tel Aviv shooting

February

February 12-21 – Israel sent 2 athletes to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

March

March 8 - Tel Aviv stabbings
March 23 – Yisrael Beitenu formally joins the Thirty-fourth government of Israel
March 24 – Hebron shooting incident

May

14 May – Hovi Star represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Made of Stars”.^[1]
May 27 – First ever Miss Trans Israel

June

June 8 – Tel Aviv shooting

July

June 6-10 – Israel sent 17 athletes to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
June 28-August 6 – Israel men's national lacrosse team competed in the 2016 European Lacrosse Championship, winning the silver medal.

August

August 5–21 – 47 athletes from Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
August 29 - Opening of the Migdal HaEmek – Kfar Baruch Railway Station

September

September 1 – AMOS 6 satellite is destroyed during launch testing
September 2-4 - Israel national American football team competed in the European Championship of American football for the first time, losing both of their games
September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics
September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase
September 23 - Israel qualified for the 2017 World Baseball Classic

November

November 22 – November 2016 Israel wildfires

December

December 12 – Israel received its first pair of F-35 Lightning II from the United States.^[2]

Deaths

February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936)^[3]
March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General. (b. 1945)
August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936)^[4]
September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016 in Israel.

^ Steinberg, Jessica (2016-05-14). "At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th". The Times of Israel.
^ Booth, William (December 12, 2016). "Israel finally receives the first of its $5 billion order of U.S.-made F-35 jets". The Washington Post.
^ "אלוף במיל' אביגדור (יאנוש) בן-גל הלך לעולמו". 13 February 2016.
^ "Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80". The Times of Israel.

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