2026 in Israel

Events of the year 2026 in Israel.

• President of Israel – Isaac Herzog
• Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu
• President of the Supreme Court – Yitzhak Amit

• 1 January —
  • Israel orders the banning effective 1 March of 37 humanitarian agencies from operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to comply with its revised regulations on the disclosure of detailed information on their Palestinian staff.^[1]
  • A Palestinian is killed and another is injured when Israeli forces open fire on stone-throwers near Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, Nablus, West Bank.^[2]
• 4 January —
  • A Bedouin man is killed in an overnight police raid in Tirabin al-Sana.^[3]
  • Two Hezbollah militants are killed in a strike by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Al-Jumayjimah, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon. ^[4]
• 5 January –
  • The Ministry of Communications approves the delivery of equipment necessary to upgrade Palestinian cellular networks from 3G to 4G in the West Bank.^[5]
  • Four Palestinians are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent sheltering displaced refugees in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israel claims it was targeting a Hamas target.^[6]
  • United States-mediated talks between Israel and Syria are held to revive the 1974 disengagement framework resume after a several-month hiatus, with Syria pressing for an Israeli withdrawal from territory entered after the fall of the Assad regime. ^[7]
  • Three Arab Israelis are killed in two separate shootings in Nazareth and Kafr Qara.^[8]
• 6 January –
  • Foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar visits Somaliland for the first time since Israel recognized its independence the month prior.^[9]
  • A bus strikes a group protesting against the conscription of Haredi Jews into the IDF in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring three others.^[10]
• 13 January – Israel withdraws from seven United Nations-affiliated agencies over their perceived anti-Israel bias or ineffectiveness.^[11]
• 14 January – The United States announces the start of the second phase of the Gaza peace plan.^[12]
• 19 January –
  • The IDF launches a large-scale counterterrorism raid in Hebron, arresting at least seven people.^[13]
  • Two children are killed and 55 others are injured following an incident at a daycare in Romema, Jerusalem.^[14]
• 20 January – Israel starts demolishing buildings at the main UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem.^[15]
• 21 January – National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir allows the issuance of gun licences to residents of 18 Israeli settlements in the West Bank.^[16]
• 22 January – The leaders of all four Arab parties Ra'am, Hadash–Ta'al, and Balad publicly commit to re-establish the Joint List for the 2026 election.^[17] Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas agrees to join, on the condition that each party would operate separately after the election.^[18]
• 26 January – The body of Ran Gvili is recovered by the IDF from northern Gaza, ending the Gaza war hostage crisis.^[19]
• 30 January –
  • Ariel Seidman, the Israeli chargé d'affaires to South Africa, is expelled from Israel's embassy in Pretoria in response to insults against president Cyril Ramaphosa. Israel responds by banning South African representative to Palestine Shaun Byneveldt from its territory.^[20]
  • The United States approves four weapons purchase agreements to Israel valued at $6.67 billion.^[21]
• 31 January – Around 40,000 people protest in Habima Square, Tel Aviv, against perceived government neglect against Arab citizens of Israel amid rising crime rates.^[22]

• 2 February – A French judge issues arrest warrants for two French-Israeli citizens, accusing them of "complicity and incitement to genocide" for blocking humanitarian aid trucks en route to Gaza.^[23][24]
• 4 February – Twelve people, including IDF troops, are charged by the Ministry of Justice with assisting Hamas by smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of products into Gaza.^[25]
• 6 February – A bus crashes into a kiosk in Ramat Gan, injuring 10 people, one seriously.^[26]
• 8 February – The security cabinet passes bills to increase Israel's control over its occupied territories in the West Bank, which are widely denounced as efforts to annex the territory.^[27][28]
• 9 February –
  • An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building in Gaza City, killing four people and injuring dozens of others.^[29]
  • An Israeli drone strikes a vehicle in Yanouh, South Governorate, Lebanon, killing three people, including a 3-year-old child.^[30]
• 10 February – Venezuela delivers its first crude oil shipment to Israel in several years.^[31]
• 15 February –
  • Four people are killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives in Majdal Anjar, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, near the Lebanon–Syria border. ^[32]
  • Two female IDF soldiers are attacked by a crowd of Haredi men in Bnei Brak, resulting in 23 arrests.^[33]
• 23 February – Israel designates the online Palestinian media platforms Al Asima News, Quds Plus, Alquds Albawsala, Maraj and Maydan Alquds as terrorist organizations, accusing connections to Hamas.^[34]
• 25 February –
  • Somaliland appoints Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud as its first ambassador to Israel.^[35][36]
  • Indian prime minister Narendra Modi becomes the first recipient of the Medal of the Knesset, the Knesset's highest award, during his visit to Israel.^[37]
• 27 February – The Supreme Court of Israel allows aid groups barred for refusing to comply with new Israeli regulations to continue operating in Gaza and other Palestinian territories while it considers the case.^[38]
• 28 February – 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran:
  • Israel and the United States launch a major attack on Iran with the stated goal of regime change, the attacks successfully eliminate its supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and a number of other high ranking officials.^[39]
  • The Cabinet of Israel declares a state of emergency and closes country’s airspace.^[40]

• 1 March – Eight people are killed and 28 others are wounded in a Iranian ballistic missile strike on Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem District.^[41]
• 2 March – 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran: Hezbollah carries out an aerial attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. In response, Israel launches a military operation in Lebanon.^[42]
• 3 March –
  • Following a series of drone and rocket attacks by Hezbollah, the IDF launch a ground offensive into Lebanon, capturing several positions along the Israel—Lebanon border.^[43]
  • The Israeli Air Force strikes the Presidential Administration of Iran and Supreme National Security Council buildings in Tehran, Iran, with "multiple munitions".^[44]
• 4 March –
  • The IDF reports that an Israeli F-35 had shot down an Iranian YAK-130 over Tehran, the first time the IAF shot down an aircraft since 1985.^[45]
  • Israeli strikes on a hotel and residential areas in the towns of Aramoun and Saadiyat, south of Beirut, kill 11 people and injure four others.^[46]
• 6 March – An Israeli IAI Heron drone is shot down over Khuzestan province, Iran.^[47]
• 8 March –
  • Joint airstrikes by Israel and the United States are carried out against oil facilities in Tehran and other Iranian cities, killing at least four truck drivers and causing large fires.^[48]
  • An Israeli airstrike on a hotel in central Beirut kills at least four people and injures 10 others.^[49]
  • Two Israeli soldiers are killed in overnight clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.^[50]
  • Two Palestinians are shot dead at a close range in the head by Israeli settlers in Abu Falah, in the occupied West Bank. Another Palestinian is killed after Israeli soldiers throw smoke grenades during the attack.^[51]
  • Israel launches an airstrike and tank shelling targeting Hamas members in Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing six Palestinians, including two children.^[52]
• 11 March –
  • Spain permanently withdraws its ambassador to Israel and terminates the position after a worsening of bilateral diplomatic relations.^[53]
  • Seven people are killed and 23 are injured after an Israeli strike on Temnine Et Tahta, Lebanon. Five people are also injured after a strike on the nearby village of Aali en Nahri.^[54]
  • Hezbollah launches over 100 rockets at Israel, injuring five civilians in Upper Galilee.^[55]
• 12 March –
  • A rabbi is seriously injured in a stabbing in Ramat Gan, as police suspect a terrorist motive.^[56]
  • The IDF drops charges against five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention camp.^[57]
  • Eight people are killed and 31 more injured by an Israeli airstrike on the Ramlet al-Baida beach in central Beirut, Lebanon. Seven more people are also killed in other attacks in the country.^[58]
  • Hezbollah launches over 200 rockets and 20 UAVs at northern Israel, injuring two people.^[59]
• 13 March –
  • At least 58 people are injured by Iranian ballistic missile strikes on northern Israel.^[60]
• 15 March –
  • Eight police officers, including the police chief of the Deir al-Balah Governorate, are killed by an Israeli attack on a police vehicle in Az-Zawayda.^[61]
  • Israeli forces kill a Palestinian couple and two of their children in the occupied West Bank.^[62]
• 16 March –
  • The IAF carries out airstrikes on the Iranian Space Research Center in Tehran, saying that it was being used for potential space warfare activities against Israeli satellites.^[63]
  • The IDF's 91st Division launches a ground operation against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, expanding a buffer zone along the border.^[64]
• 17 March –
  • A Lebanese soldier is killed and four more injured in an Israeli airstrike in Qaaqaait al-Jisr, Nabatieh Governorate.^[65]
  • Israel assassinates Ali Larijani, Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani, following airstrikes on Tehran.^[66]
• 18 March –
  • Two people are killed in an Iranian missile strike in Ramat Gan.^[67]
  • Israel assassinates Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib following airstrikes on Tehran.^[68]
• 20 March – The IDF strikes Syrian military sites, including command and control centres and supply depots, in the south of the country, in response to Syrian government attacks on the Druze population.^[69]
• 21 March –
  • U.S. jets strike the Natanz Nuclear Facility.^[70]
  • More than 31 people are injured, including a 10-year-old, by Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Dimona. Iran says it targeted Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.^[71][72]
• 22 March –
  • Fifteen people are injured in central Israel in Iranian missile attacks.^[73]
  • One person is killed after a rocket fired from Lebanon struck a vehicle near Israel's northern border, marking the first reported Israeli fatality from cross-border fire since hostilities with Hezbollah resumed earlier in March.^[74]

• By 27 October – 2026 Israeli legislative election^[75]

Source:^[76]

• 2 April – Passover
• 8 April – Seventh day of Passover
• 22 April – Independence Day
• 22 May – Feast of Shavuot
• 12–13 September – Rosh Hashanah
• 21 September – Yom Kippur
• 26 September – Sukkot
• 3 October – Simchat Torah

• 1 January –
  • Yehezkel Dror, 97, Austrian-born political scientist.^[77]
  • Morris Kahn, 95, South African-born telecommunications industry executive, founder of Golden Pages, Amdocs and the Aurec Group.^[78]
  • Amit Saar, 47, intelligence officer, head of the Military Intelligence Research Department (2020–2024).^[79]
• 7 January – Uri Lupolianski, 74, politician, mayor of Jerusalem (2003–2008) and founder of Yad Sarah.^[80]
• 11 January – Gabriel Barkay, 81, archaeologist.^[81]
• 12 January – Isaac Witz, 91, Austrian-born immunologist.^[82]
• 19 January – Eitan Na'eh, 62, diplomat, ambassador to Turkey (2016–2018) and Bahrain (2021–2023).^[83]
• 4 February –
  • Margalit Oved, 96, American-born dancer and choreographer.^[84]
  • Zohar Shavit, 74, scholar, author and translator.^[85]
  • Igal Talmi, 101, Ukrainian-born nuclear physicist.^[86]
• 7 February – Matti Caspi, 76, singer-songwriter.^[87]
• 8 February –
  • David Federman, 81, stockbroker and basketball club owner (Maccabi Tel Aviv).^[88]
  • Eli Alaluf, 80, Moroccan-born politician, MK (2015–2019).^[89]
  • Victor Sarusi, 81, footballer (Maccabi Netanya, Beitar Jerusalem, national team).^[90]
• 12 February – Dani Arditi, 75, military officer.^[91]
• 13 February – Joseph Halpern, 72, Israeli-born American computer scientist.^[92]
• 15 February – Dana Eden, 52, television producer.^[93]
• 24 February – Ora Kedem, 101, Austrian-born chemist.^[94]
• 3 March – Eli Shamir, 91-92, mathematician and computer scientist.^[95]
• 8 March – David Rokni, 94, colonel. ^[96]
• 10 March – Abdulwahab Darawshe, 82, Israeli-Arab MK (1984-1999)^[97]
• 18 March - Yaakov Edri, 75, Moroccan-born politician, MK (2003–2013), minister of health (2006) and development of Negev and the Galilee (2007–2009).^[98]
• 20 March - Yair Levy, 73, Haredi rabbi and politician, MK (1988–1992).^[99]

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