2021 in Israel

2021
in
Israel

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Events in the year 2021 in Israel.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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10 January: President Reuven Rivlin receives his second dose at Hadassah Medical Center during the COVID-19 vaccination program.

February

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March

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30 April: Israeli police working to evacuate Mount Meron following the crowd crush.

April

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May

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16 May: Aftermath of a Hamas missile hit on a residential building, Ramat Gan.
  • 6 May – Violent clashes occur between Palestinians rioters and Israeli police in Sheikh Jarrah and the Old City of Jerusalem.[18]
  • 10–21 May – Israel conducts aerial attacks dubbed "Operation Guardian of the Walls" in response to Hamas rocket attacks into Israeli territory – during the eleven-day campaign, more than 4,360 rockets and mortar shells are fired at Israel, of which 3,573 penetrate Israeli airspace, about 680 fall short inside the Gaza Strip and about 280 fall into the sea; the Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepts about 90% of the rocket fire; eleven Israeli civilians are directly killed by the rocket and mortar fire, two die as they run for shelter, several hundred are injured, and one soldier is killed when an anti-tank rocket hit his jeep; the rocket attacks force millions of civilians into bomb shelters and disrupt routine daily life throughout the country.[19][20]
  • 10–17 May – Arab-Israeli protests and riots occur, particularly in towns with large Arab populations, and in intercommunal violence, Arab rioters set ten synagogues and 112 Jewish homes on fire, loot 386 Jewish homes and damaged another 673, and set 849 Jewish cars on fire and there are 5,018 recorded instances of stone-throwing against Jews; Jewish rioters damaged 13 Arab homes and set 13 Arab cars on fire, and there are 41 recorded instances of stone-throwing against Arabs; several people from both communities are severely injured and two die.[21][22]
  • 16 May – Three killed and over 200 wounded on the night of Shavuot, due to a collapse of a tribune in a synagogue of the Carlin Stolin Hasidim in Givat Zeev.[23]
  • 20 May – The foreign ministers of Germany, Heiko Maas, the Czech Republic, Jakub Kulhánek, and Slovakia, Ivan Korčok, visit Israel in a show of solidarity.[24][25]
  • 22 May – Eden Alene represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam with the song "Set Me Free".[26]
  • 30 May – The embassy of the United Arab Emirates opens in Tel Aviv.[27]

June

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2 June: Reuven Rivlin awards the 2020–21 Israel State Cup to Maccabi Tel Aviv
13 June: Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel.

July

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7 July: The outgoing President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, receives the incoming president, Isaac Herzog, at Beit HaNassi in Jerusalem.

August

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7 August: Linoy Ashram is the first woman to win a gold medal for Israel at the Olympics
15-17 August: Wildfires in the Judean hills around Jerusalem consume thousands of acres of forest and endanger towns and villages

September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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References

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