The following lists events in the year 2016 in Israel.
Incumbents President – Reuven Rivlin Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel President of the Supreme Court – Miriam Naor Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot
Events January January 1 – Tel Aviv shooting
February February 12-21 – Israel sent 2 athletes to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
March March 8 - Tel Aviv stabbings March 23 – Yisrael Beitenu formally joins the Thirty-fourth government of Israel March 24 – Hebron shooting incident
May 14 May – Hovi Star represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Made of Stars”. May 27 – First ever Miss Trans Israel
June June 8 – Tel Aviv shooting
July June 6-10 – Israel sent 17 athletes to the 2016 European Athletics Championships June 28-August 6 – Israel men's national lacrosse team competed in the 2016 European Lacrosse Championship, winning the silver medal.
August August 5–21 – 47 athletes from Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 29 - Opening of the Migdal HaEmek – Kfar Baruch Railway Station
September September 1 – AMOS 6 satellite is destroyed during launch testing September 2-4 - Israel national American football team competed in the European Championship of American football for the first time, losing both of their games September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase September 23 - Israel qualified for the 2017 World Baseball Classic
November November 22 – November 2016 Israel wildfires
December December 12 – Israel received its first pair of F-35 Lightning II from the United States.
Deaths February 13 – Avigdor Ben-Gal, general (b. 1936) March 17 – Meir Dagan, army officer and Mossad Director-General. (b. 1945) August 28 – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, general and politician (b. 1936) September 28 – Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1923)
See also Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2016
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