page_title: 2010 in Israel
section_title: Notable deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 in Israel / Notable deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: General Israel Tal, 1970 Dansk: General Israel Tal, 1970
context_page_description: Events in the year 2010 in Israel.
context_section_description: January 9 – Bruria Kaufman (born 1918), American-born Israeli physicist.
  January 9 – Nadav Levitan (born 1945), Israeli film director and screenwriter – lung disease.
  January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), Polish-born Israeli poet
  February 3 – Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq (born 1927), Samaritan High Priest.
  February 4 – Meir Pichhadze (born 1955), Soviet (Georgian)-born Israeli artist and painter – cancer.
  February 10 – Yosef Azran (born 1941), Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi and politician, member of Knesset (1988–1996) – liver failure.
  February 21 – Menachem Porush (born 1916), Israeli politician, member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).
  February 28 – David Bankier (born 1947), German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.
  March 8 – David Kimche (born 1928), British-born Israeli diplomat, Mossad agent (1953–1980) – brain cancer.
  March 26 – Shemuel Katz (born 1926), Austrian-born Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.
  April 29 – Avigdor Arikha (born 1929), Romanian-born Israeli painter – complications of cancer.
  May 14 – David Maimon (born 1929), Israeli general, head of the Israel Prison Service.
  May 30 – Arie Eliav (born 1921), Russian-born Israeli politician – after long illness.
  June 7 – Mordechai Eliyahu (born 1929), Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).
  July 9 – Yehuda Amital (born 1924), Romanian-born Israeli rabbi and politician.
  July 27 – Tzvi Kamil (born 1935), Polish-born Israeli scientist and inventor.
  September 2 – Shmuel Eisenstadt (born 1923), Polish-born Israeli sociologist.
  September 8 – Israel Tal (born 1924), Israeli general known for leading the development of Israel's Merkava tank.
  September 21 – Shabtai Rosenne (born 1917), British-born Israeli diplomat and professor of international law – cardiac arrest.
  September 28 – Israel Dostrovsky (born 1918), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli scientist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
  October 27 – Ehud Netzer (born 1934), Israeli archaeologist – injuries from a fall.
  October 29 – Yisrael Katz (born 1927), Austrian-born Israeli politician and former minister.
  November 2 – Sarah Doron (born 1922), Lithuanian-born Israeli politician and government minister.
  November 9 – Amos Lavi (born 1953), Libyan-born Israeli actor.
  December 9 – Dov Shilansky (born 1924), Lithuanian-born Israeli politician, Speaker of the Knesset.
  December 18 – Max Jammer (born 1915), German-born Israeli physicist.
  December 28 – Avi Cohen (born 1956), Egyptian-born Israeli footballer – motorcycle accident.
caption: Israel Tal
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