Notable Deaths
- January 8 – Moshe Levi (born 1936), Israeli Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1983–1987) – stroke.
- January 18 – Uzi Cohen (born 1952), Israeli Likud politician – heart attack.
- February 26 – Dan Shomron (born 1937), Israeli general, Chief of the Israel Defense Forces (1987–1991) – stroke.
- February 26 – Aharon Amir (born 1923), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli author and translator – natural causes.
- April 1 – Mosko Alkalai (born 1931), Romanian-born Israeli actor – respiratory failure.
- April 1 – Shosh Atari (born 1949), Israeli radio presenter and actress – heart attack.
- April 20 – Nissan Nativ (born 1922), Dutch-born Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.
- April 26 – Yossi Harel (born 1918), Israeli Haganah member, a commander of many illegal immigrants ships headed towards Palestine during the Mandate period, including the ship SS Exodus – cardiac arrest.
- May 9 – Shmuel Katz (born 1914), South African-born Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
- May 24 – Adam Baruch (born 1945), Israeli journalist, writer and art critic – diabetes complications.
- June 1 – Tommy Lapid (born 1931), Yugoslav (Vojvodina, Serbia)-born Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004) – cancer.
- August 7 – Ralph Klein (born 1931), German-born Israeli basketball player and coach – intestinal cancer.
- August 19 – Binyamin Gibli (born 1919), Israeli head of military intelligence.
- August 25 – Josef Tal (born 1910), German-born Israeli composer – natural causes.
- August 27 – Abie Nathan (born 1927), Iranian-born Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.
- September 1 – Oded Schramm (born 1961), Israeli mathematician – fall.
- September 16 – Avraham Biran (born 1909), Israeli archaeologist – natural causes.
- October 27 – Zvi Keren (born 1917), American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer.
- November 17 – Yaakov Alperon (born 1955), Israeli organized crime mobster – car bomb.
- November 27 – Gideon Gechtman (born 1942), Egyptian-born Israeli artist – heart failure.
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