2017 in Israel

Incumbents

• President – Reuven Rivlin
• Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
• Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
• President of the Supreme Court – Miriam Naor until 26 October, Esther Hayut
• Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot

Events

January

• January 8 – Jerusalem vehicular attack

February

• February 6 – The Knesset passed the Regulation Law 60 to 52

March

• March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the 2017 World Baseball Classic
• March 17 – Israel–Syria incident

April

• April 14 – Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing

May

• 13 May – Imri Ziv represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “I Feel Alive”.
• 15 May – Launching of Israeli Broadcasting Corporation with stations KAN 11 and Makan 33
• 22 May – Donald Trump the President of the United States visits the Western Wall
• 24 May – Celebration of the 50th Jerusalem Day

June

• June 4 – Opening of the Assuta Ashdod Medical Center
• June 16 – Jerusalem attack
• June 24 – Kick off of the 2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four

July

• 4–17 July – The 20th Maccabiah Games are held with 10,000 athletes from Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world competing in 45 sports.
• July 14 – Temple Mount shooting
• July 21 – Halamish stabbing attack
• July 23 – Israeli embassy in Amman attack

August

• August 2 – 2017 Yavne attack
• August 19 – Israel at the 2017 Summer Universiade began
• August 31 – Israel hosted the EuroBasket 2017 Group B

December

• December 6 – The White House announces that Donald Trump will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Deaths

• January 1 – Yaakov Neeman, lawyer and politician, former Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance
• January 13 – Ari Rath, journalist and editor, former editor of The Jerusalem Post
• January 22 – Moshe Gershuni, painter and sculptor
• February 5 – Gila Goldstein, actress, singer and activist
• March 2 – David Rubinger, photographer who took a famous photograph of Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall
• March 24 – Avraham Sharir, politician and government minister
• May 1 – Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi
• July 23 - Amir Fryszer Guttman Singer and Gay rights activist died while saving his niece from drowning.