The following lists events in the year 2019 in Israel.

Incumbents

Events

December: Protesters marched against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

January

February

  • February 13 – Venezuelan disputed interim President Juan Guaidó states that he is working to restore ties with Israel, which were broken by Hugo Chávez's anti-Israeli policy, while also weighing whether to relocate the nation's embassy into Jerusalem.[2]
  • February 17 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appoints intelligence minister Israel Katz to take over the foreign minister portfolio. Netanyahu retains his defence minister and health minister roles. Israel's parliamentary elections are scheduled for 9 April 2019.[3][4]
  • February 18 – A summit between Israel and the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) is cancelled following Poland's reaction and withdrawal as a result of Israeli officials' statements on the Holocaust alleging Polish involvement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will hold bilateral talks with the three prime ministers attending.[5]
  • February 21 – Retired IDF Chief Benny Gantz and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid agree to combine their prime ministerial campaigns in the April 9 Knesset election against incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu.[6]
  • February 26 – A Jewish Israeli teen is convicted of membership of a terror organisation, arson, and racially aggravated assault. He is the second Jewish person convicted of terror group membership ever in Israel in connection to crimes against Palestinians. His conviction was announced today, but occurred last week in secrecy.[7]
  • February 27 –
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel will "continue to take action against Iran in Syria".[8]
    • Ukraine withdraws from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel, after Ukrainian entrant Maruv said she refused to be used as a "political tool" after being asked to sign a contract saying she wouldn't hold any concerts in Russia in the lead up to the event.[9]
    • Shin Bet arrest lawyer Tarek Barghout, an attorney who has represented "terror" suspects, and a Palestinian man named Zakaria Zubeidi for what it calls "their involvement in serious and current terrorist activities."[10]
  • February 28 – The Attorney General of Israel Avichai Mandelblit says that after more than two years of investigations he has decided to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.[11]

March

April

May

July

August

  • August 12- An Israeli airstrike on a PMF weapons depot in southern Baghdad killed one civilian and injured 29.[52] A spokesman for Iraq's Interior Minister confirmed that the explosion was not caused by an internal failure.[53][54] The Iraqi air control closed its airspace to all unauthorized flights on 13 August, including to the US coalition with Iraqi Prime Minister also ordering all military camps and munitions warehouses to be moved outside Iraqi cities.[55][56]
  • August 17 - Israeli airstrikes targeted the 30th Brigade's headquarters, which is affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Force].[57]
  • August 20 - An Israeli airstrike on a PMF arms depot on 20 August close to the Balad Air Base. A PMF source said the arms depot was specifically targeted by an aerial bombardment.[58]
  • August 25
    • Two Israeli drones crash in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, with one crashing into the roof of the Hezbollah Media Center, with the second one exploding 45 minutes later and also damaging the building.[59] It is the first such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the 2006 Lebanon War.[60]
    • Two Israeli drone strikes on a PMF convoy near the Syrian–Iraqi border town of Al-Qa'im, kills six, including a senior commander, occurs as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was delivering a speech in response to the alleged Israeli attack on their Dahieh stronghold.[61][62]
  • 26 August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

Moshe Arens
Nechama Rivlin

See also

References

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