Events in the year 1967 in Israel.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol (Alignment)
• President of Israel Zalman Shazar
• Chief of General Staff - Yitzhak Rabin
• Government of Israel - 13th Government of Israel

Events

Digging trenches on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel before the Six-Day War

• April 7 a minor Israeli-Syrian border incident escalates into a full-scale aerial battle over the Golan Heights between the Israeli Air Force and the Syrian Air Force. Israel claimed it downed 6 Syrian MiG-21s in three dogfights with no plane loses. Syria claimed it downed 5 Israel Mirages and killed at least 70 Israelis.^[1]

• May 15 June 5 The "Waiting period":
  • May 15 In the midst of Israel's Independence Day celebrations, Egyptian ground forces cross the Suez Canal and enter the Sinai peninsula. This move led Israel to an emergency state, known as the "waiting period".
  • May 22 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demands that the UN forces evacuate the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip (who were stationed there to prevent renewed armed conflict between Israel and Egypt).
  • May 23 President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.
  • May 30 Jordan and Egypt sign a defense agreement.
  • June 3 Egypt's Commander-in-Chief issues an order for the day to his troops in Sinai which referenced the importance of "Holy War" and the reconquest of "the plundered soil of Palestine."^[2]

Six-Day War:

• June 5 Israel launches what is widely described as a preemptive strike on Egyptian airfields and armored columns in Gaza and Sinai.
• June 6 The Battle of Ammunition Hill takes place.
• June 6 the Gaza strip was occupied by Israel.^[3]
• June 7 The Old City of Jerusalem is captured by the IDF. The Jewish Quarter is liberated.
• June 8 Israeli Air Force attack a U.S. Navy electronic intelligence vessel just outside Egypt's territorial waters in what became known as the USS Liberty incident.
• June 8 The IDF takes of Sharm el-Sheikh and Al Qantarah El Sharqiyya.
• June 9 The beginning of the fighting in the Golan Heights.
• June 10 The Six Day War ends and a ceasefire is signed the following day. The territories held now by Israel expanded significantly ("The Purple Line") and included: the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza, which had been held by Jordan, Syria and Egypt, respectively. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day.
• June 10 The Mughrabi Quarter, an 800-year old neighborhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, is demolished by the Israeli government, creating a plaza in front of the Western Wall in order to make public access to the Western Wall easier.

<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px"> File:6dayswar1.jpg|Israeli troops examine a destroyed Egyptian MiG-21 in the Sinai Peninsula, June 1967 File:Kotel 1967.jpg|Israeli heavy-duty vehicles clearing up the demolished Mughrabi Quarter ruins to create a plaza in front of the Western Wall, July 1967 </gallery>

Post-war:

• June 17 The Israeli government transfers day-to-day control of the Temple Mount site to the Islamic Waqf.
• June 28 Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem. Arab residents of East Jerusalem are given a permanent resident status in Israel.
• June 29 Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed all barriers separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.^[4]
• September 1 The Khartoum Resolution, issued at the conclusion of an Arab League summit in Khartoum, Sudan, adopts the "Three No's" – "no peace with Israel; no recognition of Israel; no negotiations with Israel."^[5]
• October 21 An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.

Israeli Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1967 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
The most prominent Palestinian terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1967 include:

• September 4 - Bomb at Tel Aviv central bus station kills one person and injures 72.

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1967 include:

• August 20 - Israeli army blow up four houses and destroy three others in Abu Dis following an attack on a party of tourists.

Notable births

• January 25 - Ilan Leibovitch, former Israeli politician.
• March 23 - Jacky Ben-Zaken, Israeli businessman.
• March 31 - Michaela Bercu, Israeli model and actress.
• April 27 Aki Avni, Israeli actor, entertainer and a television host.
• May 1 Yael Arad, Israeli Judoka and the first Israeli Olympic medal winner.
• July 19 Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model.

Notable deaths

• January 28 Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (b. 1895), Israeli politician and minister.
• February 12 Shalom Zisman (b. 1914), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
• March 29 Isaac Dov Berkowitz (b. 1885), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli author.
• April 2 Avraham Elmalih (b. 1885), Israeli journalist, Zionist activist and politician.
• June 5 Arthur Biram (b. 1878), German-born Israeli philosopher and educator.
• June 5 Nechemya Cohen (b. 1943), the most decorated soldier in the history of the IDF, fell in battle.
• June 8 Nahum Levin (b. 1905), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli politician.
• December 21 Ya'akov Katz (b. 1906), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli politician).

Major public holidays

See also

• 1967 in Israeli film
• 1967 in Israeli music
• 1967 in Israeli sport

References

External links

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