2016 in Israel

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

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)