1984 in Israel
Encyclopedia
Incumbents
- Prime Minister of IsraelPrime Minister of IsraelThe Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
– Yitzhak ShamirYitzhak Shamir' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...
(LikudLikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
) until September 13, Shimon PeresShimon PeresGCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
(AlignmentAlignment (political party)The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party...
) - President of IsraelPresident of IsraelThe President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister. The current president is Shimon Peres who took office on 15 July 2007...
– Chaim HerzogChaim HerzogChaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel , following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces .-Early life:... - Chief of General Staff - Moshe LeviMoshe LeviLeiutanant General Moshe Levy was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces . He served in this position from 1983–1987...
- Government of Israel - 20th Government of IsraelTwentieth government of IsraelThe twentieth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Shamir of Likud on 10 October 1983, following the resignation of Prime Minister Menachen Begin on 28 August....
until September 13, 21st Government of IsraelTwenty-first government of IsraelThe twenty-first government of Israel was formed by Shimon Peres of the Alignment on 13 September 1984, following the July elections. With both the Alignment and Likud winning over 40 seats each, neither side could form a stand-alone coalition, resulting in a national unity government, together...
Events
- July 23 – The Israeli legislative electionIsraeli legislative election, 1984Elections for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July 1984. Voter turnout was 78.8%. The results saw the Alignment return to being the largest party in the Knesset, a status it had lost in 1977...
ends with no clear victory. - September 13 – Shimon PeresShimon PeresGCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
presents the Twenty-first government of IsraelTwenty-first government of IsraelThe twenty-first government of Israel was formed by Shimon Peres of the Alignment on 13 September 1984, following the July elections. With both the Alignment and Likud winning over 40 seats each, neither side could form a stand-alone coalition, resulting in a national unity government, together...
and begins to serve as the prime minister of Israel. - November 21 – The first immigrants in Operation MosesOperation MosesOperation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan during a famine in 1984...
arrive from EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
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Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1984 include:Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attack
Palestinian political violence
Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence undertaken to further the Palestinian cause. These political objectives include self-determination in and sovereignty over Palestine, the liberation of Palestine and establishment of a Palestinian state, either in place of both Israel and...
s committed against Israelis during 1984 include:
- April 12–13 – The Kav 300 affairKav 300 affairThe Bus 300 affair , also known as Kav 300 affair, was an affair in which Shin Bet members executed two Palestinian bus hijackers, immediately after the hostage crises incident ended and the two militants were captured....
: - April 12 – Four Palestinian Arab terrorists hijack an Israeli Egged bus number 300 and hold hostage approximately 40 passengers.
- April 13 – During a Israeli rescue operation on bus number 300 which had been hijacked the day before, one hostage and two terrorists are killed. Two other terrorists, whom are taken off the bus alive, are killed by members of the Shin Bet.
Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
operations (military campaign
Military campaign
In the military sciences, the term military campaign applies to large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war...
s and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1984 include:
Unknown dates
- The founding of the communal settlementCommunal settlement (Israel)A community settlement is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer....
Har AmasaHar AmasaHar Amasa is a communal settlement in the south of Israel. Located near the Yatir Forest 20 kilometres south of Hebron and 14 km northeast of Arad, it is the only member of the Tamar Regional Council to be located in the highlands outside the Great Rift Valley.It was named after the nearby...
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Notable births
- January 7 – Ran DankerRan DankerRan Danker is an Israeli actor, singer and model. He is the son of Israeli actor Eli Danker. He has sung such songs as "אני אש" . He has also starred in the hit Israeli series HaShir Shelanu...
, Israeli actor, singer, and model. - January 11 – Oshri CohenOshri CohenOshri Cohen is an Israeli actor.He started his way as a kid at the Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv.In 2006 Cohen won the Israeli Theater's award for "Promise of the Year."...
, Israeli actor. - January 24 – Yotam HalperinYotam HalperinYotam Halperin is an Israeli professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m tall combo guard.Halperin, who is Jewish, was born and raised in Tel Aviv and was the basketball star of Metrowest High School in Ra'anana...
, Israeli basketball player. - March 4 – Tamir CohenTamir CohenTamir Cohen is an Israeli football midfielder who plays for Maccabi Haifa. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Liverpool player Avi Cohen.-Early career:Cohen started his career in Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team where in 2001–02 he won the double...
, Israeli footballer. - November 27 – Adi Himelbloy, Israeli actress, model and TV host.
Notable deaths
- January 8 – Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira (b. 1890), AKA the "Baba SaliBaba SaliAfter this incident, the Jewish population of Tafilalt fled to the nearby city of Arfoud, and then to the city of Boudnib. In Bodniv, Rabbi Yisrael was asked to succeed his brother as rav, but he refused. He wanted to travel to Palestine to print his brother's sefarim...
", Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi and kabbalist. - January 14 – Paul Ben-Haim Paul Ben-HaimPaul Ben-Haim was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924...
(b. 18971897 in Germany-National level:* Kaiser — Wilhelm II* Chancellor — Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst-Kingdoms:* King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria* King of Prussia — Kaiser Wilhelm II* King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony...
) – German-born an Israeli composer. - February 19 – David HacohenDavid HacohenDavid Hacohen was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1953, and again from 1955 until 1969.-Biography:...
(b. 1898), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli politician. - April 1 – Zelda (b. 1914), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli poet.
- April 21 – Marcel JancoMarcel JancoMarcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect, art theorist and cultural promoter, known as the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. His first contribution came in the 1910s, when he joined up with poets Tristan Tzara and Ion Vinea...
(b. 1895), Romanian-born Israeli painter and architect. - May 9 – Miriam Yalan-ShteklisMiriam Yalan-ShteklisMiriam Yalan-Shteklis was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. Her surname, Yalan, was an acronym based on her father’s name, Yehuda Leib Nissan.-Biography:...
(b. 1900), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. - June 28 – Yigael YadinYigael YadinYigael Yadin on 21 March 1917, died 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.-Early life and military career:...
(b. 1917), Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff. - July 1 – Moshé FeldenkraisMoshé FeldenkraisMoshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement.-Biography:...
(b. 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais MethodFeldenkrais methodThe Feldenkrais Method is a somatic educational system designed by Moshé Feldenkrais . The Feldenkrais method aims to improve movement repertoire, aiming to expand and refine the use of the self through awareness, in order to reduce pain or limitations in movement, and promote general well-being...
. - July 24 – Arieh SharonArieh SharonArieh Sharon was an Israeli architect and winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture in 1962—the first in this discipline. Sharon was a critical contributor to the early architecture in Israel and the leader of the first master plan of the young state, reporting to then Prime Minister, David...
(b. 1900), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli architect. - August 8 – Avraham Even-Shoshan (b. 1905), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli linguist and Hebrew lexicographer.
- August 8 – Ben-Zion KeshetBen-Zion KeshetBen-Zion Keshet was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1969 and 1977.-Biography:Born in Riga in the Russian Empire , Keshet attended a Hebrew high school in his home city. He joined the Betar youth movement and helped establish the Estonian...
(b. 1914), Russian (Latvia)-born Israeli politician.
See also
- 1984 in Israeli film1984 in Israeli filmA list of films produced by the Israeli film industry in 1984.-1984 releases:-Unknown premiere date:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
- 1984 in Israeli television
- 1984 in Israeli music
- 1984 in Israeli sport
- Israel at the 1984 Summer OlympicsIsrael at the 1984 Summer OlympicsIsrael competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics...