1964 in Israel

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel – Levi Eshkol
• President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
• Chief of General Staff - Tzvi Tzur until 1 January, Yitzhak Rabin
• Government of Israel - 11th Government of Israel until 22 December, 12th Government of Israel

  Events

• 1 January – Yitzhak Rabin is appointed as the seventh Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
• 5 January – Pope Paul VI arrives in Israel, marking the first visit to Israel by the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 3 June – Israel wins the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. The finals were held in Israel from 26 May to 9 June 1964 and the Israeli national football team won the title with a perfect record of three wins, defeating the teams of South Korea, Hong Kong and India.
• 10 June – The National Water Carrier of Israel was inaugurated.
• 16 June – Israel's Knesset passes The President of the State Law.
• 9 July – The remains of the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky are transferred to Israel for burial in Jerusalem at Mount Herzl Cemetery from his original burial site in New York.
• 22 December – Levi Eshkol presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The 12th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.

  Israeli–Palestinian conflict

• 2 June – The Palestine Liberation Organization is founded in the West Bank with the stated goal of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle. The original PLO Charter stated that "Palestine with its boundaries that existed at the time of the British mandate is an integral regional unit" and sought to "prohibit... the existence and activity" of Zionism. It also called for a right of return and self-determination for Palestinian Arabs. The PLO was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization until the Madrid Conference in 1991.

Notable births

• 1 February – Eli Ohana, Israeli football manager and former football player.
• 12 December – Bonni Ginzburg, Israeli goalkeeper.
• 30 December – Keren Mor, Israeli actress.

  Notable deaths

• 16 January – Aharon Zisling, Russian -born Israeli politician and minister.
• 10 April – Ze'ev Shefer, Russian -born Israeli politician.
• 6 August – Jeremiah Halpern, Russian-born Revisionist Zionist leader.
• 20 August – Avraham Drori, Polish-born Israeli politician.

  Major public holidays