1952 in Israel

1952
in
Israel

Decades:	1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1952 List of years in Israel Timeline of the region of Palestine Timeline of Israeli history

Events in the year 1952 in Israel.

Incumbents

January 9 - The Knesset approves the Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany.
April 4 – In the Hague Tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth $3 billion from Germany.
September 10 – The Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany is signed. According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the slave labor and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and to compensate for Jewish property that was stolen by the Nazis.
November 9 – President Chaim Weizmann dies in office and Yosef Sprinzak, Speaker of the Knesset, becomes acting President pending the election and inauguration of a new President.
December 7 – Mordechai Maklef is appointed as the third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
December 8 – In the 1952 Presidential Election, the Knesset elects Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as President of Israel, on the third-round ballot. His opponents are Mordechai Nurock, Yitzhak Gruenbaum and Peretz Bernstein.
December 16 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi assumes office as the second president of the State of Israel.
December 24 – David Ben-Gurion presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The 4th Government is approved that day and the members were sworn in.

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1952 include:

January 6 - 1952 Beit Jala Raid: an attack committed by an unknown Israeli party who blew up several houses in the West Bank town Beit Jala, killing between six and seven Palestinian-Arabs, including two children^[1]. According to leaflets distributed in the scene of the crime, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl on 4 December 1951.^[2] Israel denied involvement in what it called "this sad affair", and voted to condemn the raid. ^[1]

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian fedayeen terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1952 include:

January 1 – Seven armed Palestinian Arab militants attack and kill a 19-year-old girl in her home, in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem.^[3]
July 14 - Five Israeli watchmen killed by bedouin at Timna.^[4]

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 1952 include:

January 6 - Fifteen bedouin killed by an Israeli armoured infantry attack on their camp near Bureij Refugee Camp.^[5]

April 16 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, former Israeli track and field athlete.
May 1 – Uzi Cohen, Israeli Likud politician (d. 2008).
June 9 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer, songwriter, composer and television personality (d. 2004)

August 14 – David-Zvi Pinkas (b. 1895), Austro-Hungarian-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
August 21 – Yitzhak Sadeh (b. 1890), Russian (Polish)-born commander of the Palmach and one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel.
November 9 – Chaim Weizmann (b. 1874), Russian-born first President of Israel.
Full date unknown – Zeev Ben-Zvi (b. 1904), Russian (Polish)-born Israeli sculptor.

^ ^a ^b Morris, Benny. Israel's border wars, 1949-1956. p. 216.
^ Hutchison, E.H. (1956) Violent Truce. A military observer looks at the Arab-Israeli conflict 1951-1955 The Devin-Adair Company, New York. Pages 12-16 (4th edition, 1958)
^ Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War Israel Ministry of Foreign Affiairs website, accessed April 13, 2011
^ Morris. Page 211.
^ Morris. Page 203.

1952 in Asia

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Dependencies and other territories	Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau