2019 in Israel

Incumbents

• President – Reuven Rivlin
• Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
• Chief of General Staff – Aviv Kochavi
• Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel

  Events

January

• January 24 – 2019 Judo Grand Prix Tel Aviv began

  March

• March 25 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel.

  April

• April 9 – April 2019 Israeli legislative election
• April 11 – Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes on the moon.

  May

• 3–6 May – Gaza–Israel clashes
• 14–18 May – Eurovision Song Contest 2019 held in Tel Aviv

  July

• 2–3 July – Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel

  September

• September 17 – September 2019 Israeli legislative election

  November

• 12–14 November – Gaza–Israel clashes

  December

• 12 December — Israel will need to hold its third general election in less than a year. this is totally unprecedented in Israel's history. this is because of the apparent inability of any of the major parties to be able to form a governing coalition that would be decisive under the laws of Israel's parliamentary system.
• 20 December — International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine announced by ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate alleged breaches by both sides in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• 31 December – Israel started extraction from the Leviathan gas field.

  Deaths

• 7 January – Moshe Arens, aeronautical engineer, diplomat and politician
• 25 January – Meshulam Riklis, Turkish-born Israeli businessman
• 1 February – Yosef Sorinov, Israeli footballer
• 6 February – Yechiel Eckstein, Israeli-American rabbi
• 14 February – Michael Nudelman, Israeli politician
• 17 February – Ami Maayani, Israeli composer
• 26 February –, composer
• 11 March – Yona Atari, Israeli singer and actress
• 11 March – Danny Ben-Israel, Israeli musician
• 23 March – Rafi Eitan, spy and politician
• 2 May – Micha Lindenstrauss, judge and State Comptroller
• 4 June – Nechama Rivlin, First Lady of Israel
• 7 July – Ora Namir, politician and diplomat
• 18 December – Geulah Cohen, politician and activist