page_title: 2012 in Israel
section_title: Notable deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 in Israel / Notable deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: The CHIZBATRON was formed by PALMACH members, and was the official army entertainment troupe. עברית: להקת הצ'יזבטרון בספטמבר 1949
context_page_description: Events in the year 2012 in Israel.
context_section_description: January 1 – Yafa Yarkoni (born 1925), Israeli singer
  January 6 – Gabriel Cadis (born 1951), Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association
  January 10 – Israel Getzler (born 1920), Israeli historian
  January 19 – Shraga Gafni (born 1926), Israeli children's book author
  January 23 – Yardena Cohen (born 1910), Israeli dancer and choreographer
  February 1 – Yona Baltman (born 1929), Israeli jurist, State Attorney (1982–1988)
  February 11 – Aharon Davidi (born 1927), Israeli general and founder of the Sar-El volunteer program of the IDF
  March 4 – Shmuel Tankus (born 1914), Israeli general, fifth commander of the Navy
  March 5 – Yehuda Ben-Haim (born 1966), Israeli Olympic boxer
  March 6 – Jacky Mekaiten (born 1955), Israeli singer, lyricist and composer
  March 13 – Moshe Yehoshua Hager (born 1916), Israeli rabbi, 5th Rebbe of Vizhnitz, Bnei Brak
  March 17 – Rina Litvin (born 1939), Israeli author and translator
  March 18 – Haim Alexander (born 1915), German-born Israeli composer
  March 20 – Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (born 1910), Polish-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
  March 25 – Ben-Zion Leitner (born 1927), Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor recipient
  April 10 – Zvi Dinstein (born 1926), Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism
  April 13 – Avraham Goldberg (born 1913), American-born Israeli Talmud scholar
  April 30 – Benzion Netanyahu (born 1910), Israeli historian specializing in the history of Jews in Spain; father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  May 1 – Mordechai Virshubski (born 1930), Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992).
  May 7 – Alexander Keynan (born 1921), Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research.
  May 17 – Gideon Ezra (born 1937), Israeli politician, MK (since 1996)
  June 2 – Avraham Botzer (born 1929), Israeli general, Commander of the Navy (1968–1972).
  June 24 – Yitzhak Galanti (born 1937), Israeli politician, MK (2006–09)
  June 30 – Yitzhak Shamir (born 1915), Prime Minister of Israel (1983–84, 1986–92).
  July 13 – Shlomo Bentin (born 1946), Israeli neuropsychologist and recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology.
  July 18 – Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (born 1910), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi, leader of Orthodox Jewry.
  July 26 – Miriam Ben-Porat (born 1918), Israeli jurist, Supreme Court justice and State Comptroller.
  July 28 – Amos Degani (born 1926), Israeli politician
  August 2 – Amos Hakham (born 1921), Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest (1958).
  August 3 – Moshe Piamenta (born 1921), Israeli linguist and orientalist
  September 4 – Abraham Avigdorov (born 1929), Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor recipient
  September 6 – Baruch Bracha (born 1946), Israeli jurist
  September 6 – Dan Lachman (born 1941), Israeli writer and social activist.
  September 18 – Haim Hefer (born 1925), Israeli songwriter, poet and writer
  September 19 – Itamar Singer (born 1946), Romanian-born Israeli Hittitologist
  September 21 – Yehuda Elkana (born 1934), Israeli historian and philosopher, President and Rector of the Central European University (1999–2009).
  September 22 – Gideon Gadot (born 1941), Israeli journalist and politician, member of the Knesset (1984–1992).
  September 28 – Avraham Adan (born 1926), Israeli general
  October 1 – Moshe Sanbar (born 1926), Hungarian-born Israeli economist, Governor of the Bank of Israel (1971–1976).
  October 6 – Shlomo Nitzani (born 1936), Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor and Medal of Distinguished Service recipient.
  November 4 – David Resnick (born 1924), Brazilian-born Israeli architect and town planner.
  November 16 – Eliyahu Nawi (born 1920), Israeli politician and jurist, Mayor of Beersheba (1963–1986).
  November 17 – Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli fashion designer.
  December 9 – Anat Gov (born 1953), Israeli playwright and scriptwriter.
  December 11 – Mendel Weinbach (born 1933), rosh yeshiva, Yeshivas Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem.
  December 16 – Avraham Mor (born 1938), Israeli actor
  December 19 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (born 1944), 
caption: Haim Hefer
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