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2025 in Israel

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Events of the year 2025 in Israel.

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January

February

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
  • 1 February –
    • Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[25]
    • 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[25]
    • Prime Minister Netanyahu appoints retired Major General Eyal Zamir as IDF chief of staff.[26]
  • 4 February – Two soldiers and a Palestinian gunman are killed and eight soldiers are injured, two seriously, in a shooting at the Tayasir checkpoint in the West Bank.[27]
  • 5 February –
  • 6 February – US president Donald Trump imposes sanctions against the International Criminal Court in part over its issuance of an arrest warrant against Netanyahu over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.[30]
  • 8 February –
    • 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[31]
    • Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[31]
  • 13 February – Yitzhak Amit is sworn in as President of the Supreme Court in a ceremony boycotted by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana.[32]
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    Rally for the return of the hostages, Tel Aviv, 15 February 2025
  • 15 February –
    • 369 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[33]
    • Three Israelis captured by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the 7 October attacks are released by both groups as part of the ceasefire agreement.[34]
  • 16 February –
    • An American shipment of 1,800 Mark 84 2,000-lb bombs arrives in the Port of Ashdod.[35]
    • The IDF completes its probes into the 7 October attacks and announces that its findings will presented starting the following week.[36]
  • 18 February – The IDF withdraws from all but five positions in southern Lebanon under the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement which expires the same day.[37]
  • 19 February – A 70-year-old Jewish woman is injured in an axe attack in the Old City of Jerusalem after being mistaken as a Christian. The perpetrator is later arrested in northern Israel.[38][39][40]
  • 20 February –
    • Hamas returns the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and Oded Lifshitz, who were captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement. A fourth body, which Hamas claimed was Shiri Bibas, is later found to have been misidentified as a hostage.[41] Hamas subsequently says that Shiri's remains had been mixed with those of other victims following an Israeli airstrike[42][43] and that it will examine allegations over Shiri's remains, while asking Israel to return the body, which it identifies as a Palestinian woman.[44][45]
    • The Knesset passes a law imposing an entry ban into Israel for people who deny the Holocaust and the 7 October attacks, as well as those who support legal punishment against Israelis over actions committed during IDF service.[46]
    • Three buses explode and two explosive devices are found by authorities in a suspected militant attack in Bat Yam. No casualties are reported.[47]
  • 21 February – Hamas says that it had handed over the remains of Shiri Bibas, which are subsequently identified by forensic experts.[48][49]
  • 22 February – Four Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks and two others held in captivity after entering the Gaza Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015 are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement. They are the final living hostages held by Hamas to be released in the first phase of the deal.[50][51]
  • 24 February – MEPs Rima Hassan and Lynn Boylan are denied entry to Israel as part of an EU-Palestine delegation, with Israeli authorities citing Hassan's support for anti-Israel boycotts.[52]
  • 25 February – The IDF launches airstrikes on military installations outside Damascus and in Daraa Governorate in southern Syria, killing at least two people.[53]
  • 27 February –

March

April

May

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Jaffa Road in Jerusalem on 1 May 2025

June

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Iran's attack on Haifa oil refineries on the night of 15 to 16 June 2025

July

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Anti-war protest in Tel Aviv, 22 July 2025

August

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Demonstration on Begin Road calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, 17 August 2025
  • 1 August – An employee of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo dies after being mauled by a tiger that had escaped from its enclosure.[154]
  • 4 August – The Cabinet unanimously votes to dismiss Gali Baharav-Miara as Attorney General. The decision is suspended by the Supreme Court pending a review.[155]
  • 8 August – Germany imposes an arms embargo to Israel in response to the latter's conduct in the Gaza war.[156]
  • 16 August – The Israeli Navy carries out airstrikes on the Hezyaz power plant near Sanaa, Yemen.[157]
  • 17 August – Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protest across the country amidst a nationwide general strike, calling for an end to the Gaza war and release of the hostages. At least 39 protesters are arrested.[158][159]
  • 18 August – Australia bars far-right MK Simcha Rothman from entering the country, prompting Israel to revoke the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority in response.[160]
  • 20 August – Israel carries out a new offensive to occupy Gaza City.[161]
  • 21 August – An Israeli citizen detained by Lebanese forces after illegally crossing the Israel–Lebanon border in 2024 is returned to Israel.[162]
  • 24 August – The IAF strikes several targets in Sanaa, killing ten and wounding 102, after the Houthis fire a cluster bomb at Israel for the first time.[163]
  • 25 August – Syria accuses Israel of sending 60 soldiers to seize its territory in the Mount Hermon area.[164]
  • 26 August – Israel carries out drone strikes in Al-Kiswah, Syria, killing eight soldiers.[165]
  • 28 August – Israel assassinates Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and several other ministers of the group in an airstrike in Sanaa.[166]
  • 29 August – Turkey imposes a trade ban on Israel, closing its ports to Israeli ships and barring aircraft affiliated with government officials and arms shipments from its airspace.[167]
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