2018 in Israel

Events

2 January – Israel announces plans to deport African migrants who reside in the country illegally, with 90 days given to either leave the country or face imprisonment.^[1]

26 April – Ten military cadets from a cadet academy die after being carried off by a surge in the Tzafit stream west of the Dead Sea amid floodings caused by intense storms that strike southern Israel.^[2]
30 April – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of not holding up its end of the nuclear deal with the P5+1 countries after presenting a cache over 100,000 documents detailing the extent of Iran's nuclear program. Iran denounced Netanyahu's presentation as "propaganda".^[3] Shortly after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.^[4]

4–27 May – 2018 Giro d'Italia cycling Grand Tour
10 May – Iran's Quds Force on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights fired around 20 projectiles towards Israeli army positions without causing damages or injuries.^[5] In response, Israel launched an extensive strike against Iranian targets in Syria.^[6]
12 May – Netta Barzilai wins first place for Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Toy".^[7]
14 May – The new embassy of the United States opens in Jerusalem.^[8]
23 May – The Knesset passed a law allowing the Security Cabinet to declare war.^[9]

June 21 – Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was charged for an alleged fraud.^[10]
June 25 – Prince William began a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, becoming the first British royal to visit the country in an official capacity.^[11]

July 12 – Start of the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship in Netanya
July 19 – Israel incorporated in its basic laws a declaration of the country as the "nation-state of the Jewish people."^[12]

December 4 – The Israeli military launched Operation Northern Shield to destroy cross-border tunnels built by Hezbollah along Israel's border with Lebanon.^[14]
December 21 – Israel announced its departure from UNESCO, citing bias.^[15]

Deaths

4 January – Aharon Appelfeld, novelist (b. 1932)^[16]
6 January – Batya Ouziel, handicrafter (b. 1934)^[17]
13 January – Eliyahu Winograd, Israeli jurist and acting judge on the Supreme Court of Israel, chairman of the Winograd Commission (b. 1926)
20 January – Doron Rubin, military officer (b. 1944)
31 January – Dan Alon, fencer (b. 1945)
18 February – Ya'akov Ben-Yezri, Israeli politician, Minister of Health (b. 1927)
24 February – Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek (b. 1931)
2 March – Haim Hanegbi, journalist and activist (born 1935)
5 March – Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat (b. 1926)
23 March – Ephraim Stern, archaeologist (b. 1934)^[18]
24 March – Rim Banna, singer, composer and activist (b. 1966)
24 March – Frank Meisler, architect and sculptor (b. 1925).^{[citation needed]}
1 April – Avichai Rontzki, Israeli military Rabbi and rosh yeshiva (b. 1951)
4 May – Abi Ofarim, musician (b. 1937)
29 May – Eliezer Rafaeli, director of the University of Haifa (b. 1926)
20 August – Uri Avnery, peace activist (b. 1923)
30 October – David Azulai, politician (b. 1954)^[19]
7 December – Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, businessman and politician (b. 1930)
17 December – Rona Ramon, activist and NGO founder (b. 1964)^[20]
28 December – Amos Oz, writer, novelist and journalist (b. 1939)^[21]
29 December – Zvi Levi, activist and NGO founder (b. 1948)^[22]
29 December – Yehoshua Glazer, footballer (b. 1927)^[23]

Incumbents