1965 in Israel

1965
in
Israel

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See also:	Other events of 1965 List of years in Israel Timeline of the region of Palestine Timeline of Israeli history

Events in the year 1965 in Israel.

Incumbents

January 21 – The Shalom Meir Tower officially opens, becoming the tallest building in the Middle East (standing at 142 m).
January 24 – Syria announces that it has captured the Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
March 7 – The Israeli spy, Wolfgang Lotz, is captured in Egypt.
March 14 – Israel and West Germany establish diplomatic relations, 20 years after the fall of Nazi Germany.
May 11 – The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is inaugurated.
May 18 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
May 19 – The Alignment party is established as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda.
May 31 - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.
July – The 1965 Maccabiah Games are held.
July 14 – The Israeli left-wing political party Rafi is founded by David Ben-Gurion, who breaks with Mapai, the ruling party, and leads a breakaway group of eight members of the Knesset, including Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Chaim Herzog, and Teddy Kollek, amongst others.
November 2 – the Alignment party headed by Levi Eshkol wins the sixth Israeli legislative elections.

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1965 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1965 include:

January 1 – Fatah's first major guerrilla attack takes place when Fatah members infiltrated into Israel and attempt to sabotage the National Water Carrier. The squad manages to put an explosive device next to the Water Carrier, but it fails to explode and is later discovered by an Israeli Border Police patrol.
June 1 - Armed Palestinian armed militants attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftah.
November 7 - A Fatah cell that infiltrated from Jordan blew up a house in Moshav Givat Yeshayahu, south of Beit Shemesh. The house was destroyed, but the inhabitants were unhurt.

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 1965 include:

September 29 - Israeli security forces kill a terrorist as he attempted to attack Moshav Amatzia.

May 18 – Eli Cohen (b. 1924), Egyptian-born Israeli spy.
June 13 – Martin Buber (b. 1878), Austrian-born Israeli philosopher.
July 7 – Moshe Sharett (b. 1894), Russian (Ukraine)-born second Prime Minister of Israel.
August 28 – Giulio Racah (b. 1909), Italian-born Israeli physicist.
October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel (b. 1891), German-born Israeli mathematician.
Full date unknown – Shlomo Dykman (b. 1917), Polish-born Israeli translator and classical scholar.

1965 in Asia

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine Republic of China (Taiwan) South Ossetia

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