Notable Deaths
- February 23 – Ofra Haza (born 1957), Israeli singer.
- August 12 – Eliahu Ben Elissar (born 1932), Polish-born Israeli diplomat and politician.
- September 22 – Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), German-born Israeli poet and an Israeli.
- November 12 – Leah Rabin (born 1928), German-born wife of former Prime minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin.
- December 31 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (born 1966), American-born Israeli settler leader.
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