Events
- 16 February – Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
- 10 March – Twelve IDF soldiers are killed in a suicide car attack near Metulla.
- 11 June – HaBonim disaster: 22 are killed in collision between a bus and a train near Kibbutz HaBonim.
- July – The 1985 Maccabiah Games are held.
- 4 September – The Israeli new shekel (NIS) is introduced. It does not replace the old shekel as Israel's official currency until 1 January 1986.
- 5 October – Ras Burqa massacre: An Egyptian soldier shoots and kills seven Israeli vacationers (including four children) at Ras Burqa, a beach resort in the Sinai peninsula.
- 21 November – Jonathan Pollard is arrested in the United States by the FBI and subsequently convicted of spying for Israel.
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