Events
- 23 April – President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi dies in office and Kadish Luz, Speaker of the Knesset, becomes acting President pending the election of a new President.
- 21 May – In the 1963 Presidential Election, the Knesset elects Zalman Shazar as President of Israel, by a majority of 67 votes to 33 votes caste in favour of his opponent, Peretz Bernstein. Shazar assumes office immediately as the third president of the State of Israel.
- 16 June – David Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister for what he describes as personal reasons and chooses Levi Eshkol as his successor.
- 26 June – Levi Eshkol is elected Prime Minister of Israel. The 11th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.
- 5 July – Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
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