1991 in Israel
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Events in the year 1991 in Israel.
Incumbents
- President of Israel – Chaim Herzog
- Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Shamir (Likud)
- President of the Supreme Court – Meir Shamgar
- Chief of General Staff – Dan Shomron until 1 April, Ehud Barak
- Government of Israel – 24th Government of Israel
Events
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- 17 January – Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 22 January –
- 1 April – Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
- 4 May – Kan” ("Here"), achieving third place.[2]
- 24–25 May – Operation Solomon: A covert Israeli military operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel commences.
- 16 December – history of the UN, this is the only resolution that has ever been revoked.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1991 include:
- 30 October – 1 November – USSR.
Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
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The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israeli targets during 1991 include:
Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
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The most prominent Israeli military
Palestinian militants
during 1991 include:
Notable deaths
- 1 February – Herzl Rosenblum (born 1903), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli journalist and politician, signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
- 7 February – Amos Yarkoni (born 1920), Israeli Bedouin IDF soldier.
- 3 July – Ephraim Urbach (born 1912), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli Talmudic scholar.
- 10 August – Hans Jakob Polotsky (born 1905) Swiss-born Israeli orientalist, linguist and university professor.
- 14 September – Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (born 1925), German-born Israeli Linguist and Bible scholar.
- 2 November – Yosef Almogi (born 1925), Polish-born Israeli politician.
- 27 December – Revisionist Zionist activist, Irguncommander and Israeli politician.
See also
- 1991 in Israeli film
- 1991 in Israeli television
- 1991 in Israeli music
- 1991 in Israeli sport
- Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
References
- ^ According to the Jewish Virtual Library, a total of 74 Israelis died as a result of the Iraqi attacks: two directly and the rest from suffocation and heart attacks.See [Jewish Virtual library The Gulf war.] Approximately 230 Israelis were injured.[Ibid] Extensive property damage was also caused, and according to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Damage to general property consisted of 1,302 houses, 6,142 apartments, 23 public buildings, 200 shops and 50 cars."[Ibid].
- ^ "1991 Israel – Kan". Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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