Events
- 8 January - Yehoshua Ben-Zion convicted of embezzling £20 million from the Israeli-British Bank which collapsed in July 1974 owing British investors £46.6 million. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Later, Ben-Zion was pardoned by the Israeli president after intervention of Menachem Begin and was released after serving 3 years.
- 25 April – Leading Israeli pop star Mike Brant, who achieved world fame after moving to France, leaps to his death from a six store apartment in Paris.
- 4 September – The Sinai Interim Agreement is signed between Israel and Egypt in Geneva.
- 10 November – United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 is adopted by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions) which equate Zionism with racism. The resolution was eventually revoked by Resolution 46/86 on 16 December 1991. In the history of the UN, this is the only resolution that has ever been revoked.
- 25 November – Israeli Air Force C-130H 203/4X-FBO, c/n 4533, crashes into mount Jebel Halal, 55 kilometers south-southeast of El Arish, in the Israeli-administered Sinai Peninsula. Pilots were Shaul Bustan and Uri Manor.
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