Notable Deaths
- 19 April – Shlomo Perlstein (born 1902), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli politician.
- 20 June – Yisrael Yeshayahu (born 1911), Yemeni-born Israeli politician and minister.
- 10 November – Mahmud Al-Nashaf (born 1906), Israeli Arab politician.
- 14 August – Yehoshua Rabinovitz (born 1911), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli politician.
- 16 November – Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (born 1886), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli author, educator and a leading Labor Zionist.
- 26 November – Binyamin Shahor (born 1916), Israeli politician.
- Full date unknown – Abraham Schalit (born 1898), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli historian.
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