2017 in Israel

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

January

 * January 8 – Jerusalem vehicular attack

February

 * February 6 – The Knesset passed the Regulation Law 60 to 52

March

 * March 15 – Israel finished in 6th place at the 2017 World Baseball Classic
 * March 17 – Israel–Syria incident

April

 * April 14 – Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing

May

 * 13 May – 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
 * 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 16 – Jerusalem attack
 * June 24 – Kick off of the 2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four

July

 * 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 – Temple Mount shooting
 * July 21 – Halamish stabbing attack
 * July 23 – Israeli embassy in Amman attack

August

 * August 2 – 2017 Yavne attack
 * August 19 – Israel at the 2017 Summer Universiade began
 * August 31 – Israel hosted the EuroBasket 2017 Group B

December

 * December 6 – The White House announces that Donald Trump will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Deaths

 * January 1 – Yaakov Neeman (born 1939), lawyer and politician, former Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance
 * January 13 – Ari Rath (born 1925), journalist and editor, former editor of The Jerusalem Post
 * January 22 – Moshe Gershuni (born 1936), painter and sculptor
 * February 5 – Gila Goldstein (born 1947), actress, singer and activist
 * March 2 – David Rubinger (born 1924), photographer who took a famous photograph of Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall
 * March 24 – Avraham Sharir (born 1932), politician and government minister
 * May 1 – Yisrael Friedman (born 1923), Romanian-born Israeli rabbi
 * July 23 - Amir Fryszer Guttman (born 1976) Singer and Gay rights activist died while saving his niece from drowning.