1982 in Israel

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Events in the year 1982 in Israel.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel - Menachem Begin (Likud)
• President of Israel - Yitzhak Navon
• Chief of General Staff - Rafael Eitan
• Government of Israel - 19th Government of Israel

Events

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Israeli soldiers evacuating Yamit by force, April 1982

• April 19 – The evacuation of the Israeli settlement Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula begins in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.
• April 25 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.
• September 25 – In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin in protest of the events of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
• November 11 – Suicide attack on the IDF headquarters in Tyre. 76 Israeli soldiers and 27 Lebanese are killed in the blast.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1982 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

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The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1982 include:

• June 3 – Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador in London, is severely injured when shot at by Palestinian Arab militant belonging to the Abu Nidal Organization organization. Argov's assassination attempt leads to the Operation Peace for Galilee. Argov eventually died of his injuries in 2003.
• September 23 – The Israeli Chargé d'affaires in Malta Esther Milo was wounded in an attempted kidnapping by Palestinian militants.
• December 23 – Palestinian terrorists detonate a bomb at the Israeli Consulate in Sydney, wounding two Israelis officials.

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 1982 include:

• Operation Peace for Galilee (June – September 1982)

Israeli troops in South Lebanon, June 1982

• • June 6 – Following the assassination attempt on Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, IDF forces invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
  • June 9 – The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launches Operation Mole Cricket 19, a suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) campaign against Syrian SAM batteries in the Beqaa Valley in east Lebanon. During the battle, the IAF destroys 17 of the 19 SAM batteries deployed in the Beqaa Valley and shoots down 29 Syrian fighter planes, without losses. This is the largest combat of the jet age, with 150 fighters from both sides.^[1][2]
  • June 10 – Battle of Sultan Yacoub
  • June 13 – IDF forces reach West Beirut.
  • September 18 – Members of the Lebanese Christian Militia (the Phalange) kill hundreds, possibly thousands, of Palestinian Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, which had been surrounded by Israeli troops. The massacre is in retaliation for the assassination of pro-Israel president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, as well as several massacres by Palestinian Arabs of Lebanese Christians.

Unknown dates

• The founding of the moshav Ein Tamar.
• The founding of Ariel University Center of Samaria.

Notable births

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• February 18 – Nili Natkho, Circassian Israeli basketball player (d. 2004).
• April 3 – Dana Ivgy, Israeli film and TV actress.

Notable deaths

• January 16 – Moshe Harif (b. 1933), Polish-born Israeli politician and kibbutz activist.
• February 3 – Joseph Bentwich (b. 1902) British-born Israeli educator.
• February 21 – Gershom Scholem (b. 1897), German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian.
• February 28 – Shmuel Yeivin (b. 1896), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli archaeologist.
• October 15 – Rachel Cohen-Kagan (b. 1888), Russian (Ukraine)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
• Full date unknown – Isaac Michaelson (b. 1903), British (Scotland)-born Israeli ophthalmologist.

Major public holidays

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See also

• 1982 in Israeli film
• 1982 in Israeli television
• 1982 in Israeli music
• 1982 in Israeli sport
• Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

References

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