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
• March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General.
• August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician
• September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel