1991 in Israel

1991
in
Israel

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See also:	Other events of 1991 List of years in Israel Timeline of the region of Palestine Timeline of Israeli history

Events in the year 1991 in Israel.

Incumbents

January 17 – Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
January 22 – Gulf War: Three Scuds and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, wounding 96 people; three elderly people die of heart attacks.
April 1 – Ehud Barak is appointed as the 14th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
May 24–25 – Operation Solomon: A covert Israeli military operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel commences.
December 16 – United Nations General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, which had equated Zionism with a form of racism. Israel had made revocation of resolution 3379 a condition for Israel's participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In the history of the UN, this is the only resolution that has ever been revoked.

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1991 include:

October 30-November 1 – Madrid Conference: an international peace conference held in the Spanish capital Madrid aimed at promoting the peace process between Israel, the Palestinian Arabs and Arab countries. The conference was hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the USA and the USSR.

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israeli targets during 1991 include:

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 1991 include:

February 1 – Herzl Rosenblum (b. 1903), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli journalist and politician.
February 7 – Amos Yarkoni (b. 1920), Israeli Bedouin IDF soldier.
July 3 – Ephraim Urbach (b. 1912), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli Talmudic scholar.
Auguist 10 – Hans Jakob Polotsky (b. 1905) Swiss-born Israeli orientalist, linguist and university professor.
September 14 – Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (b. 1925), German-born Israeli Linguist and Bible scholar.
November 2 – Yosef Almogi (b. 1925), Polish-born Israeli politician.
December 27 – Eitan Livni (b. 1919), Polish-born Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician.

1991 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