2015 in Israel
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Israel.
Events
January
- January 5 – The site where Jesus may have been tried, prior to his crucifixion, opens to the public for the first time located under an abandoned prison building, called Kishle, that is part of the Tower of David Museum ground in the Old City of Jerusalem.[1]
- January 18 – It was reported that Israeli helicopters attacked a Hezbollah's convoy in the Syrian-controlled part of Golan Heights, killing six prominent members of Hezbollah and six IRGC commanders, including a General.[2][3]
- January 23 – A Palestinian man from the West Bank, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, illegally crosses into Israel for the express purpose to stab people attacking over a dozen Israelis on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Security forces captured the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street.[4]
- January 28 – Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli military convoy in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa farms near the Lebanon border, killing two soldiers and wounding seven. In response, Israel fired at least 50 artillery shells across the border into southern Lebanon, in which a Spanish UN peacekeeper was killed.[5][6]
March
Deaths
- January 13 – Hillel Zaks, Polish-born Israeli rabbi (born 1931)
- January 27 – David Landau, editor-in-chief of Haaretz (born 1947)
- February 16 – Uri Orbach, politician and government minister (born 1960)
- February 27 – Nadia Hilou, politician (born 1953)
- March 24 – Yehuda Avner, prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author (born 1928)
- April 3 – Shmuel Wosner, Israeli rabbi (born 1913)
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