1971 in Israel

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Events in the year 1971 in Israel.

Incumbents

• President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
• Alignment
  )
• President of the Supreme Court – Shimon Agranat
• Chief of General Staff – Haim Bar-Lev
• Government of Israel – 15th Government of Israel

Events

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• 15 May – 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]
• 25 May – 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

during 1971 include:

Unknown dates

• The founding of the kibbutz El Rom.

Notable births

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

Notable deaths

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

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