1957 in Israel
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Events in the year 1957 in Israel.
Incumbents
- Prime Minister of Israel – David Ben-Gurion (Mapai)
- President of Israel – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
- Chief of General Staff - Moshe Dayan
- Government of Israel - 7th Government of Israel
Events
- 22 January – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on 29 October 1956).
- 4 March – Israel Kastner is killed outside his house by Ze'ev Eckstein (who pulled the trigger), Dan Shemer and Yosef Menkes. All three were former members of the pre-state right-wing underground Jewish militant group Lehi. Kastner dies of his injuries twelve days later.
- July – The 1957 Maccabiah Games are held.
- 28 October – In the 1957 Israeli presidential election, the Knesset re-elects Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as President of Israel with 76 votes. There is no other candidate.
- 29 October – Moshe Dwek, a 26-year-old Yemenite-Israeli mental patient throws a hand grenade in the Knesset. The grenade blast causes severe injuries to the Minister of Religious Affairs Haim-Moshe Shapira, and lightly wounds the prime minister David Ben-Gurion, Foreign Minister Golda Meir and the Minister of Transport Moshe Carmel.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1957 include:
- 7 March - Israeli army withdraws from the Gaza Strip.[1][2][3]
Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
Main articles: Palestinian political violence#Partition of Palestine to establishment of PLO (1947–1964) and List of attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967
The most prominent Palestinian fedayeen terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1957 include:
- 18 February – Two Israeli civilians are killed in the kibbutz Nir Yitzhak by landmines set by Palestinian Arab militants who infiltrated into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
- 8 March - Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel, kill a shepherd from kibbutz Beit Guvrin in a field near the kibbutz.
- 16 April - Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel, killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot.
- 20 May - Armed Palestinian Arab militant opened fire on a truck in the Arava region, killing a worker.
- 29 May - A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a landmine, next to kibbutz Kissufim.
- 23 June - Israelis were wounded by landmines, close to the Gaza Strip.
- 23 August - Two guards of the Israeli Mekorot water company were killed near Kibbutz Beit Govrin.
- 21 December - A member of kibbutz Gadot was killed in the Kibbutz fields.
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 1957 include:
Unknown dates
Notable births
- 20 January – Moshe Kaplinsky, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- 26 February – Tzachi Hanegbi, Israeli politician.
- 24 April – Uri Malmilian, Israeli football player and manager.
- 19 November – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist (died 2000).
- 24 December – Danny Robas, Israeli singer.
Notable deaths
- 15 March – Israel Kastner (born 1906), Hungarian-born Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for helping Jews escape Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust.
- 13 May – Michael Fekete (born 1886), Austro-Hungarian (Vojvodina)-born Israeli mathematician.
- 16 June – Haim Ariav (born 1895), Russian-born Israeli politician.
- 28 July – Isaac Heinemann (born 1876), German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature
Major public holidays
See also
- 1957 in Israeli music
- 1957 in Israeli sport
External links
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References
- ↑ Burns, Lieutenant-General E.L.M. (1962) Between Arab and Israeli. George G. Harrap. PAge 260.
- ↑ FULL GAZA POWER IS GIVEN TO BURNS - U.N. Official Says General Will 'Do What He Thinks Necessary' in Area - Article - NYTimes.com
- ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search
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