1971 in Israel
Events in the year 1971 in Israel.
Incumbents
- President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
- Prime Minister of Israel – Golda Meir
- President of the Supreme Court - Shimon Agranat
- Chief of General Staff - Haim Bar-Lev
- Government of Israel - 15th Government of Israel
Events
- 12 January – Security forces arrest approximately 60 suspected espionage and sabotage operatives in Judea and Samaria.
- 15 January – The Israeli Defense Forces kills 10 militants in raids on multiple bases near Sidon in southern Lebanon; six soldiers are injured.
- 3 March – The Israeli Black Panther Party holds its first public protest outside a municipal building in Jerusalem, demonstrating against housing discrimination affecting Mizrahi Jews, and demanding the release of activists arrested in police raids.
- 11 April – Members of the IBPP stage a hunger strike at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to demand meetings with government officials over poverty, housing inequality, and social discrimination.
- 15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.
- 4 June – Israel announces the exposure of a Syrian espionage network in the Golan Heights.
- 12 July – The Jordanian army launches a major operation against Palestinian militants, as the Cairo Agreement is annulled.
- 23 August – The IBPP hold a protest in Zion Square, burning an effigy of Prime Minister Meir in the process.
- 13 October – Two Israeli soldiers are killed by a mine in the Golan Heights.
Notable births
- 15 January – Inbal Perlmutter, Israeli musician.
- 30 January – Assaf Amdursky, Israeli singer.
- 13 February – Alon Harazi, Israeli footballer.
- 7 March – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer.
- 12 April – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer.
Notable deaths
- 4 April – Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir, Russian -born Israeli politician.
- 6 June – Yitzhak Tabenkin, Russian -born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
- 10 July – Chaim Sheba, Austro-Hungarian -born Israeli physician.
- 19 July – Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky, Russian -born Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist.
- 7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin, Russian -born Haredi Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.
- 28 August – Reuvein Margolies, Austro-Hungarian -born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.
- 1 September – Mordechai Ofer, Polish-born Israeli politician.
- 17 October – Shimon Bejarano, Bulgarian-born Israeli politician.
- 12 December – Yechezkel Kutscher, Austro-Hungarian -born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.Full date unknown
- * Yehoshua Bertonov, Russian -born Israeli stage actor.
- * Hillel Oppenheimer, German-born Israeli professor of botany.