The following lists events in the year 2017 in Israel.
Incumbents President – Reuven Rivlin Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel President of the Supreme Court – Miriam Naor until 26 October, Esther Hayut Chief of General Staff – Gadi Eizenkot
Events January January 7 – Israel announces it will withhold $6 million from its annual United Nations dues in protest of the December 23, 2016, Security Council settlement resolution. January 8 – Four Israeli soldiers killed and 21 injured in a truck ramming attack by a Palestinian ISIS sympathizer in East Jerusalem. The perpetrator was arrested and was jailed for 10 years. An investigation is demanded by several British MPs into a recent scandal in which an Israeli embassy official in London had conspired to damage the reputation of several British politicians in response to the recent United Nations Security Council resolution. January 9 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames the Islamic State for the attack that killed four soldiers and injured 15 others in East Jerusalem. January 10 – The Palestinian National Authority threatens to revoke its recognition of Israel's signing of the 1993 Oslo I Accord if the United States, under the presidency of Donald Trump, moves its Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. January 15 – A summit begins in Paris, France, to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the state of Palestine in an effort to discuss a possible two-state solution to the conflict. However, neither Israel nor Palestine sent representatives to the summit, casting doubts on a breakthrough. January 17 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the latest peace-conference "useless". January 18 – Two Israeli Bedouins and one Israeli police officer are killed in a clash during a home-demolition operation in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. Israeli police claim to have found evidence that the Bedouins were supporters of the Islamic State. The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority agrees to form a unity government with Hamas following a three-day delegation in Moscow. January 22 – Following the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Israel approves the construction of 566 new settlement homes in East Jerusalem. January 27 – Israeli authorities approve 153 construction permits for settlement homes in East Jerusalem, and plan to approve another 11,000 in the coming months.
February February 1 – Israel announces it will build an entirely new settlement in the West Bank for the first time in about twenty years. Many in the international community believe that such settlements are illegal but Israel disputes that. The settlement program is illegal under international law. Israeli security forces begin evicting people from the illegal Amona, Mateh Binyamin, outpost built on private Palestinian-owned land near Ramallah in the central West Bank. The Supreme Court ordered residents to leave the area last year. February 2 – The White House cautions Israel that building new settlements or expanding existing settlements in the West Bank, "... may not be helpful in achieving (peace)." February 6 – The Knesset passed the Regulation Law 60 to 52 February 8 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologists announce the discovery of another cave that used to have Dead Sea Scrolls. February 21 – Israeli soldier Elor Azaria is sentenced to 18 months in prison by a military court for shooting and killing the unarmed amd wounded Palestinian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif for stabbing an IDF soldier last March in Hebron. February 24 – Israel denies entry to Omar Shakir, a researcher for Human Rights Watch and an American citizen, because the organization engages in so-called Palestinian propaganda. HRW's Sari Bashi said, "This Israeli government has been narrowing the space for democratic activity," by closing the country off to critics. Later, the Israel government would grant Mr. Shakir a tourist visa while considering HRW's appeal on the work visa. February 27 – At least four Palestinians are injured following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City that were reportedly in response to rockets launched into southern Israel by Hamas. February 28 – Hundreds of right-wing activists protest and clash with police over the court-ordered demolition of the Israeli settlement Ofra, which was built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank, with Israeli police evacuating nine residences in the settlement, despite hunger strikes and barricading of the settlers inside.
March March 5 – Israel changes its law regarding marijuana use. Instead of facing criminal charges, first-time offenders who smoke marijuana in public places will only receive a fine. March 12 – Ahmad Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who shot seven Israeli schoolchildren on March 13, 1997, is released from prison in Jordan. March 14 – A blaze at a fireworks warehouse near Netanya, central Israel, kills two people and injures five others. March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the 2017 World Baseball Classic March 17 – Syria claims an Israeli fighter plane was shot down over Homs Governorate in an attack on a Pro-Assad forces in Palmyra, with the Syrian Army firing several S-200 missiles at Israeli jets above the Golan Heights. The 2017 World Baseball Classic begins at the Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea, with the tournament debutant Israeli team upsetting the host nation team's 2–1 in extra innings. March 20 – Syrian Army shoots down an IDF Skylark drone over Syria's Quneitra Governorate. March 22 – An IDF tank kills a Palestinian teenager and wounds two others near the Gaza border. Israeli Air Force resumes bombing against suspected Hezbollah-related targets in Syria, with a fourth round of bombings occurring near military sites near Damascus. Israeli archeologists uncover hundreds of gin and whiskey bottles dating back to the First World War at the site of a former British Army barracks in the town of Ramle.
April April 6 – An IDF soldier is killed in a car ramming attack near Ofra, in the West Bank. Another Israeli soldier was injured. A Palestinian suspected of committing the attack is arrested. April 14 – A 20 year old British student is stabbed to death by a Palestinian with two others, including a pregnant woman, injured in the attack. The perpetrator was arrested with Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon linking the attack to terrorism. April 17 – Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails — activists say up to 1,500 are participating — begin an open-ended hunger strike to protest poor conditions and the Israeli policy of detention without trial. April 25 – Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu cancels a visit with the foreign minister of Germany Sigmar Gabriel after the latter's refusal to cancel a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces veterans NGO Breaking the Silence saying the group "slanders IDF soldiers as war criminals" April 27 – The Israeli Air Defense Command shoots down a Syrian Air Force drone using a MIM-104 Patriot missile.
May May 6 – Hamas, seeking to reconcile with rival Palestinian organizations, elects former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh its new leader, replacing term-limited Khaled Meshaal. Last week, Hamas dropped its longstanding call for Israel's destruction, and severed ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. May 13 – Tayseer Abu Sneineh, who was convicted by Israel for his role in the 1980 Hebron attack, is elected mayor of the West Bank city of Hebron. Imri Ziv represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “I Feel Alive”. 15 May – Launching of Israeli Broadcasting Corporation with stations KAN 11 and Makan 33 16 May – Israeli Minister of Construction Yoav Galant announces that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be assassinated. Yesterday, the U.S. State Department accuses the al-Assad government of using a crematory at Sednaya Prison to cover up the mass murders of thousands of political prisoners. The Syrian government denies the accusations. A U.S. intelligence report reveals that Israel was warned by U.S. federal officials not to share sensitive information with President Trump, out of fear that it could be leaked to Russia and Iran in the fallout of the classified information leak. 22 May – Donald Trump the President of the United States visits the Western Wall 24 May – Celebration of the 50th Jerusalem Day
June June 4 – Opening of the Assuta Ashdod Medical Center June 6 – U.S. authorities charge two operatives, Samer El Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Ali Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, belonging to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah with terrorism offenses, accused of plotting to target American and Israeli targets in New York and Panama. June 16 – An Israeli policewoman is fatally stabbed in two simultaneous attacks near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, with the three Palestinian assailants shot dead. ISIL claims were questioned by Israeli authorities. As well, the PFLP and Hamas claim it was their members who did it. June 24 – Israel and Syria exchange artillery fire in the disputed Golan Heights, with Israel destroying several targets, including two Syrian tanks, with Israeli claims of Syrian casualties, with reports from Syrian forces that it is unknown. No Israeli troops were injured. The 2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four kicks off at the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv. June 25 – Israeli forces strikes two Syrian Army artillery positions and an ammunition truck in Quneitra Governorate, after stray shells from Syria land in the northern Golan Heights for a second day in a row. June 26 – The Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors cancels Monday's dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protest Sunday's decision by his cabinet to rescind plans for a mixed-gender prayer area at Jerusalem's Western Wall, a compromise agreement reached after three years of intense negotiations.
July July 2 – Israel arrests Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar over allegations of her inciting of violence. July 10 – Avi Gabbay, former minister of environmental protection in Benyamin Netanyahu's government, wins an upset victory in the primaries of the Israeli Labor Party, thus becoming leader of the opposition. 4–17 July – The 20th Maccabiah Games are held with 10,000 athletes from Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world competing in 45 sports. July 14 – Two Druze Israeli police officers are killed in an attack at Temple Mount in Jerusalem. July 21 – Several thousand Palestinians protest Israel's installation of metal detectors and a ban on Muslim men under the age of 50 in response to the killing of two Israeli policemen last Friday at a contested Jerusalem holy place, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Protest marches are also held in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, and Turkey Three Palestinians are killed, 390 people injured with dozens hospitalized in clashes in Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to the Red Crescent. Israeli police report five officers are wounded. 2017 Halamish stabbing attack: Three Israelis are stabbed to death by a Palestinian in their home while eating dinner, according to Israeli officials. United Nations deputy spokesman Farhan Haq calls for a de-escalation of violence and tensions at this site. Egypt calls for an immediate halt to the violence underway around this site, urging Israel to show respect for Muslim sacred sites while accusing it of fomenting these tensions. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım says his country is in dialogue with Israel to end the crisis. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian leadership will “freeze contacts” with Israel “on all levels.” July 22 – A United Nations Security Council session is to be held to address the escalating violence in Jerusalem.