Notable Deaths
- 12 January – Hamad Abu Rabia (born 1929), Bedouin Israeli politician, murdered.
- 11 February – Franz Sondheimer (born 1926), German-born Israeli-British chemist.
- 25 March – Yonatan Ratosh (born 1908), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli poet and the founder of the Canaanite movement.
- 8 May – Uri Zvi Grinberg (born 1896), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli poet and journalist.
- 20 May – Binyamin Arditi (born 1897), Austrian-born Israeli politician.
- 14 June – Haim Shirman (born 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli scholar of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry.
- 17 June – Yitzhak Zuckerman (born 1915), Polish-born Israeli. One of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II.
- 16 October – Moshe Dayan (born 1915), Israeli general and politician.
- 9 December – Franz Ollendorff (born 1900), German-born Israeli physicist.
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