Notable Deaths
- January 7 – Yaakov Banai (born 1920), Polish-born Israeli Lehi commander.
- January 26 – Avraham Ravitz (born 1934), Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1988–2009) – heart failure.
- February 1 – Arieh Levavi (born 1912), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli public servant, Ambassador to Argentina at the time of the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
- February 5 – Raaphi Persitz (born 1934), Israeli chess master.
- February 5 – Noah Weinberg (born 1930), American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah.
- February 20 – Shraga Weil (born 1918), Czechoslovak (Slovakia)-born Israeli painter.
- February 21 – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (born 1929), Soviet-born Israeli mathematician – Parkinson's disease.
- March 8 – Daud Turki (born 1927), Israeli Arab Communist poet and political activist, convicted of treason.
- April 26 – Salamo Arouch (born 1923), Greek-born Israeli boxer and Holocaust survivor.
- April 29 – Moshe Weinfeld (born 1925), Polish-born professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- May 9 – Mendi Rodan (born 1929), Romanian-born Israeli conductor, composer and violinist – cancer .
- May 20 – Yehoshua Zettler (born 1917), Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi).
- May 25 – Amos Elon (born 1926), Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.
- May 25 – Ephraim Katzir (born 1916), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978).
- June 26 – Jo Amar (born 1930), Moroccan-born Israeli singer.
- June 26 – Amnon Kapeliouk (born 1930), Israeli journalist and author.
- July 15 – Avraham Ahituv (born 1930), German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980).
- July 17 – Meir Amit (born 1921), Israeli major general and politician.
- August 4 – Amos Kenan (born 1927), Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist – Alzheimer's disease.
- August 8 – Yehuda Cohen (born 1914), Israeli Supreme Court justice.
- August 10 – Yosef Tamir (born 1915), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli politician and environmental activist, member of the Knesset (1965–1981).
- August 20 – Dudu Topaz (born 1946), Israeli actor – suicide by hanging.
- September 7 – Ra'anan Naim (born 1935), Libyan-born Israeli politician, member of Knesset (1981–1984).
- October 7 – Moni Fanan (born 1946), Israeli basketball team manager – suicide hanging.
- October 7 – Shlomo Lorincz (born 1918), Hungarian-born Israeli politician – heart failure.
- November 2 – Amir Pnueli (born 1941), Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner.
- November 12 – Emanuel Zisman (born 1935), Bulgarian-born Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999).
- November 14 – Moshe Gidron (born 1925), Israeli soldier, major general in the IDF.
- December 23 – Ike Aronowicz (born 1923), Danzig-born Israeli naval captain who during the Mandate period was the captain of the illegal immigrants ships "SS Exodus" and "Pan York" (Kibbutz Galuyot).
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