1962 in Israel

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1962
in
Israel

Decades:
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Events in the year 1962 in Israel.

Incumbents

Events

Senior German Nazi general Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel
  • 16 March –
    fishermen in the Sea of Galilee, IDF forces raid Syrian posts in the village of Nokyeab. During the operation 30 Syrian and seven Israeli soldiers are killed.[1]
  • 22 March – Adolf Eichmann began an appeal to an Israeli court, as his lawyer, Robert Servatius sought to spare Eichmann from the death sentence ordered in his 1961 war crimes conviction.[2] The verdict would be upheld, and Eichmann would be executed on 31 May.[3]
  • 31 May – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main people responsible for the actual implementation of the Final Solution Plan, is executed by hanging in Israel. Eichmann is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1962 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian fedayeen terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1962 include:

  • 12 April – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel, fired on an
    Egged
    bus on the way to Eilat; one passenger was wounded.
  • 30 September – Two armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel, attacked an Egged bus on the way to Eilat. No one was wounded.

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets

The most prominent Israeli military

Palestinian militants
during 1962 include:

Unknown dates

Notable births

Notable deaths

  • 2 February – Shlomo Hestrin (born 1914), Canadian-born Israeli biochemist.
  • 14 May – Dov Karmi (born 1905), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli architect.
  • 31 May –
    Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust
    , executed in prison at Ramla, Israel
  • 6 June – Abba Ahimeir (born 1897), Russian-born Israeli journalist, historian and political activist.
  • 10 July –
    Bassarabia
    )-born Israeli rabbi and government minister.
  • 15 August – Benzion Yadler (born 1871), Maggid in Jerusalem and Moshavot of Israel.
  • 28 August – Herzl Berger (born 1904), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli activist and politician.
  • 24 October – Hanan Rubin (born 1908), German-born Israeli politician.

See also

References

  1. ^ Samuel Katz, Israeli Elite Units since 1948 (Osprey Publishing, 23 June 1988) p24
  2. ^ "Eichmann Begs for Mercy", Milwaukee Journal, 23 March 1962, p2
  3. ^ Ron Christenson, Political Trials in History: From Antiquity to the Present (Transaction Publishers, 1991) p121

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