Events
Masada and the Old City of Acre, Israel are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites- February 6 – Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins the Israeli prime ministerial election which are held following the resignation of Ehud Barak.
- March 7 – Ariel Sharon presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The 29th Government is approved that day and the members were sworn in.
- March 22 – Israeli former general, defense minister and transportation minister Yitzhak Mordechai is convicted of harassing and sexually assaulting two women, and receives an 18-month suspended sentence. Several days after his conviction, he resigned from the Knesset.
- May 24 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
- July 16–23 – The 2001 Maccabiah Games are held.
- October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed, 51 of them are Israeli citizens, mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
- November – The Israeli developed and produced assault rifle Tavor TAR-21 was first introduced to the IDF forces.
- December 13 – Masada and the Old City of Acre, Israel are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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The Israeli developed and produced assault rifle Tavor TAR-21 was first introduced to the IDF forces.
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