The Israeli Chess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel.

History From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two years, eventually becoming an annual event.

Winners

# Year Men's Champion 1 1936 Moshe Czerniak 2 1937 Yosef Porat 3 1938 Moshe Czerniak 4 1940 Yosef Porat 5 1945 Izak Aloni 6 1951 Menachem Oren 7 1953 Yosef Porat 8 1955 Moshe Czerniak 9 1957 Yosef Porat 10 1959 Yosef Porat 11 1961 Izak Aloni 12 1963 Yosef Porat 13 1965 Izak Aloni 14 1967 Shimon Kagan 15 1969 Shimon Kagan 16 1971 Uzi Geller 17 1974 Vladimir Liberzon 18 1976 Nathan Birnboim 19 1978 Roman Dzindzichashvili 20 1980 Nathan Birnboim 21 1982 Yehuda Gruenfeld 22 1984 Alon Greenfeld 23 1986 Nathan Birnboim 24 1988 Gad Rechlis 25 1990 Yehuda Gruenfeld 26 1992 Ilya Smirin 27 1994 Leonid Yudasin 28 1996 Lev Psakhis 29 1998 Eran Liss 30 2000 Boris Avrukh Alik Gershon 31 2002 Ilya Smirin 32 2004 Sergey Erenburg 33 2006 Maxim Rodshtein 34 2008 Boris Avrukh 35 2010 Vitali Golod 36 2013 Tamir Nabaty 37 2014 Victor Mikhalevski 38 2016 Tamir Nabaty 39 2018 Alon Greenfeld{| class="sortable wikitable" # Year Women's Champion 1 1955 Ora Nodel Yaron 2 1957 Rivka Lichtenfeld 3 1959 Genia Gevenda 4 1961 Clara Friedman 5 1963 Clara Friedman 6 1965 Clara Friedman 7 1967 Sima Rabinovitz Forman 8 1969 Frida Rabinovitz Schahar 9 1971 Lidia Gal 10 1974 Olga Podrazhanskaya 11 1976 Olga Podrazhanskaya 12 1978 Ljuba Kristol 13 1980 Lena Glaz 14 1982 Ljuba Kristol Olga Podrazhanskaya 15 1984 Ljuba Kristol 16 1986 Shlomit Vardi 17 1988 Ljuba Kristol 18 1990 Ljuba Kristol 19 1992 Masha Klinova 20 1994 Ludmila Tsifanskaya 21 1996 Ludmila Tsifanskaya 22 1998 Irina Yudasina 23 2000 Ela Pitam 24 2002 Irina Botvinnik 25 2004 Bella Igla 26 2006 Bela Atnilov 27 2008 Olga Vasiliev 28 2010 Masha Klinova 29 2013 Olga Vasiliev 30 2014 Olga Vasiliev 31 2016 Michal Lahav 32 2018 Yuliya Shvayger | valign="top" | {| class="sortable wikitable" ! # !! Year !! Junior Champion |- | 1 || 1951 || Raaphi Persitz |- | 2 || 1954 || Giora Peli |- | 3 || 1958 || Yedael Stepak |- | 4 || 1959 || Yehuda Oppenheim |- | 5 || 1960 || Israel Gat |- | 6 || 1961 || Daniel Mor |- | 7 || 1962 || Israel Gelfer |- | 8 || 1963 || Yaacov Bleiman |- | 9 || 1964 || Yaacov Bleiman |- | 10 || 1965 || Amikam Balshan |- | 11 || 1966 || Abraham Neyman |- | 12 || 1967 || Nathan Birnboim |- | 13 || 1968 || Nathan Birnboim On Neyman |- | 14 || 1969 || Yoel Temanlis |- | 15 || 1970 || Arie Lev |- | 16 || 1971 || Chagai Scheinwald |- | 17 || 1972 || Chagai Scheinwald |- | 18 || 1973 || David Bernstein |- | 19 || 1974 || Yehuda Gruenfeld |- | 20 || 1975 || Nir Greenberg |- | 21|| 1976 || Ehud Lahav |- | 22|| 1977 || Michael Pasman |- | 23 || 1978 || Alon Greenfeld |- | 24|| 1979 || Alon Greenfeld |- | 25|| 1980 || Dan Lapan |- | 26 || 1981 || Ran Shabtai |- | 27|| 1982 || Moshe Pyernik |- | 28 || 1983 || Ofer Brook |- | 29|| 1984 || Ronen Lev |- | 30|| 1985 || Ilan Manor |- | 31 || 1986 || Danny Barash |- | 32|| 1987 || Ronen Lev |- | 33|| 1988 || Ilan Manor |- | 34|| 1989 || Eran Liss |- | 35|| 1990 || Dan Zoler |- | 36 || 1991 || Victor Mikhalevski |- | 37|| 1992 || Victor Mikhalevski |- | 38|| 1993 || Eran Liss |- | 39|| 1994 || Michael Oratovsky |- | 40|| 1995 || Alik Vydeslaver |- | 41 || 1996 || Boris Avrukh |- | 42|| 1997 || Dimitri Tyomkin |- | 43|| 1998 || Alexander Rabinovich |- | 44|| 1999 || Michael Roiz |- | 45|| 2000|| Alik Gershon |- | 46 || 2001|| Evgeny Postny |- | 47|| 2002|| Sergey Erenburg |- | 48|| 2003|| Sergey Erenburg |- | 49|| 2004|| Baruch Sternberg |- | 50|| 2005|| Gaby Livshits |- | 51|| 2006|| Maxim Rodshtein |- |52 |2007 |Sasha Kaplan |- | 53|| 2008||Gil Popilsky |- |54 |2012 |Asaf Givon |- |55 |2014 |Asaf Givon |- |56 |2015 |Nimrod Veinberg |- |57 |2017 |Avital Borochovsky |- |58 |2018 |Johnatan Bakalchuk |- |59 |2019 |Yair Parkhov |- |60 |2020 |Erez Kupervaser

Notes

References

Bibliography (results through 1982)