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Events in the year 1975 in Israel.
Incumbents Events Israeli Palestinian conflict The most prominent events related to the Israeli Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1975 include: Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israeli targets during 1975 include: - March 6 Savoy Hotel Attack: eight Al-Fatah commandos seize the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv after they rowed ashore to Israel from the Mediterranean Sea. 13 civilians were taken hostage. The Israeli counter-terrorism unit Sayeret Matkal stormed the hotel later in the day, killing seven of the eight militants. Five of the hostages were freed while eight hostages and three of the Israeli soldiers died in the operation.[6]
- May 3 The Israeli capital of Jerusalem was struck by missiles for the first time, after two Czechoslovakian made Katyusha rockets, fired by Arab guerillas, struck 500 meters from the Knesset parliament building.[7]
- June 15 Kfar Yuval hostage crisis: a terror cell consisting of Palestinian Arab terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front cross the border from Lebanon and manage to infiltrate moshav Kfar Yuval in the night and enter one of the houses of the moshav. They kill one of the family members who tries to fight them and then hold the rest of the family members as hostages, demanding the release of Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons. A raid by an IDF infantry unit kills all four terrorists. Two hostages and one soldier are also killed during the raid.
- July 4 Zion Square refrigerator bombing: A refrigerator that had five kilograms of explosives packed into its sides explodes on Zion Square, a main square leading to Ben Yehuda Street and Jaffa Road, Jerusalem. Fifteen people are killed and 77 injured in the attack. The PLO claims responsibility for the attack.
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 1975 include: Unknown dates Notable births Notable deaths - February 22 Mordechai Namir (b. 1897), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli politician.
- April 6 Ernst David Bergmann (b. 1903), German-born Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist.
- April 25 Mike Brant (b. 1947), Israeli singer, committed suicide.
- June 18 Hugo Bergmann (b. 1883), Austro-Hungarian (Bohemia)-born German and Israeli Jewish philosopher.
- August 11 Rachel Katznelson-Shazar (b. 1885), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel.
- August 12 Pinchas Sapir (b. 1906), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
- Full date unknown
- Israel Reichart (b. 1891), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli agriculturist and biologist.
- Moshe Zilberg (b. 1900), Russian (Lithuania)-born leading Israeli jurist.
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