2016 in Israel



Incumbents
 President: Reuven Rivlin
 Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
 Chief of General Staff: Gadi Eizenkot
 Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel

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
 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. 

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

References

 
Category:2010s in Israel
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Category:Years of the 21st century in Israel