1971 in Israel

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Events in the year 1971 in Israel.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel – Golda Meir (Alignment)
• President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
• Chief of General Staff - Haim Bar-Lev
• Government of Israel - 15th Government of Israel

Events

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• May 15 – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.^[1]
• May 25 – The body of Efraim Elrom is found in Istanbul.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1971 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

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The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1971 include:

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets

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The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1971 include:

Unknown dates

• The founding of the kibbutz El Rom.

Notable births

• January 15 – Inbal Perlmutter, Israeli musician (d. 1997).
• January 30 – Assaf Amdursky, Israeli singer.
• February 13 – Alon Harazi, Israeli footballer.
• March 7 – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer.
• April 12 – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer.

Notable deaths

• April 4 – Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir (b. 1910), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
• June 6 – Yitzhak Tabenkin (b. 1888), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
• July 10 – Chaim Sheba (b. 1908), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli physician.
• July 19 – Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (b. 1901), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist.
• August 7 – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (b. 1893), Russian (Poland)-born ultra-orthodox Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.
• August 28 – Reuvein Margolies (b. 1889), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.
• September 1 – Mordechai Ofer (b. 1924), Polish-born Israeli politician.
• October 17 – Shimon Bejarno (b. 1910), Bulgarian-born Israeli politician.
• December 12 – Yechezkel Kutscher (b. 1909), Austro-Hungarian (Slovakia)-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.
• Full date unknown
  • Yehoshua Bertonov (b. 1879), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli stage actor.
  • Hillel Oppenheimer (b. 1899), German-born Israeli professor of botany.

Major public holidays

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See also

• 1971 in Israeli film
• 1971 in Israeli television
• 1971 in Israeli music
• 1971 in Israeli sport

References

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