Events
- 21 January – The Shalom Meir Tower officially opens, becoming the tallest building in the Middle East (standing at 142 m).
- 24 January – Syria announces that it has captured the Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
- 7 March – The Israeli spy, Wolfgang Lotz, is captured in Egypt.
- 14 March – Israel and West Germany establish diplomatic relations, 20 years after the fall of Nazi Germany.
- 11 May – The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is inaugurated.
- 18 May – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
- 19 May – The Alignment party is established as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda.
- 31 May - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.
- July – The 1965 Maccabiah Games are held.
- 14 July – The Israeli left-wing political party Rafi is founded by David Ben-Gurion, who breaks with Mapai, the ruling party, and leads a breakaway group of eight members of the Knesset, including Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Chaim Herzog, and Teddy Kollek, amongst others.
- 2 November – the Alignment party headed by Levi Eshkol wins the sixth Israeli legislative elections.
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