1990 in Israel

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Events in the year 1990 in Israel.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Shamir (Likud)
• President of Israel – Chaim Herzog
• Chief of General Staff - Dan Shomron
• Government of Israel - 23rd Government of Israel until June 11, 24th Government of Israel

Events

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• February 22 – USSR announce that they will not allow direct commercial flights to Israel.^[1]
• February 27 – Poland resumes diplomatic relations with Israel.^[2]
• March 15 – The dirty trick: Yitzhak Shamir's government is dissolved by a non-confidence vote of 60 to 55 in the Knesset. The Agudat Yisrael party votes for the motion, while the Shas party abstains. It is the only time in Israeli history that a government is dissolved by a motion of no confidence. The vote was 60 to 55.^[3]
• March 28 – The US House of Foreigh Affairs committee approve a $400,000,000 loan for housing Soviet Jews in Israel.^[4]
• March 29 – The senior Israeli officer, Col. Yehuda Meir, who was accused of ordering soldiers to "systematically break the bones" of nearly two dozen bound Palestinian demonstrators, denied the eight charges filed against him in the court martial proceedings, which included abuse, intentionaly causing serious damage and behavior unaccepatable for an officer.^[5]
• April 3 – The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-2 is launched.^[6]
• April 11 – The dirty trick: Shimon Peres' new government is to be approved on this day. However, at the last moment, it is revealed that two Agudat Yisrael MKs are absent and therefore not going to support the motion to approve the new government, following Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's ruling not to support any concession of territory by Israel.^[7]
• April 26 – Israel's Supreme Court ordered the evacuation of 20 Jewish settlers, which provoked an international outcry when they moved to a building in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.^[8]
• May 3 – Bulgaria resumes diplomatic relations with Israel.^[9]
• May 14 – Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who shot and killed the Palestinian store owner Khayed Salah and injured the customer Ibrahim Bali when he was attacked by stone throwers in the center of the city Hebron on September 30, 1988, was convicted after signing a plea bargain. Levinger was sentenced to five months in prison.^[10]
• May 20 – Ami Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged Israeli soldier, kills seven Palestinians Arab workers from the Gaza Strip in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion. Popper committed the murder with a rifle that he stole from his soldier brother.^[11]
• June 11 – Yitzhak Shamir presents his new government.^[12]
• July 17 – Tze'elim I disaster: Five IDF reserve soldiers are killed in an accident during a joint artillery and infantry military training in the Tze'elim army base.^[13]
• October 18 – The serial bank robber Ronnie Leibowitz, nicknamed "Ofnobank" (a combination of the words "motorcycle" and "bank" in Hebrew), is captured.^[14]
• November 5 – Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure, is assassinated in a Manhattan hotel, after concluding a speech warning American Jews to emigrate to Israel before it was "too late."^[15]

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1990 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

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The PLF militants' ship captured on May 30, 1990 at the Nitzanim beach.

The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1990 include:

• May 30 – PLF militants attempt an attack on Nitzanim beach, near Tel Aviv with speedboats. Israeli ships and aircraft intercepted the militants, killing four militants and capturing 12.^[16]

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 1990 include:

• March 16 – Israeli army kill three alleged DFLP members in the South Lebanon security zone.^{[citation needed]}

Unknown dates

• The founding of the communal settlement Avshalom.

Notable deaths

• January 9 – Shlomo Pines (b. 1908), French-born Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy.
• February 20 – Verdina Shlonsky (b. 1905), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli composer, pianist, and piano teacher.
• June 30 - Hillel Omer (b. 1926), Israeli poet and writer.
• November 5 – Meir Kahane (b. 1932), American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure.
• Full date unknown – Karl Frankenstein (b. 1905), German-born Israeli professor in special education and pedagogy.

Major public holidays

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See also

• 1990 in Israeli film
• 1990 in Israeli television
• 1990 in Israeli music
• 1990 in Israeli sport
• Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1990 in Israel

• IDF History in 1990 @ dover.idf.il

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