title: 2019 in Israel
text: # 2019 in Israel
  
  The following lists events in the year 2019 in Israel.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President – Reuven Rivlin
  * Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
  * President of the Supreme Court – Esther Hayut
  * Chief of General Staff – Aviv Kochavi
  * Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 24 – 2019 Judo Grand Prix Tel Aviv began
  
  ### March
  
  * March 25 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel.
  
  ### April
  
  * April 9 – April 2019 Israeli legislative election
  * April 11 – Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes on the moon.
  
  ### May
  
  * 3–6 May – Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019)
  * 14–18 May – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is held at the Expo Tel Aviv in Israel.
     * 18 May – Kobi Marimi represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “ Home”.
  
  ### July
  
  * 2–3 July – Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel
  
  ### September
  
  * September 17 – September 2019 Israeli legislative election
  
  ### November
  
  * 12–14 November – Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2019)
  
  ### December
  
  * 12 December — Israel will need to hold its third general election in less than a year. this is totally unprecedented in Israel's history. this is because of the apparent inability of any of the major parties to be able to form a governing coalition that would be decisive under the laws of Israel's parliamentary system.
  * 20 December — International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine announced by ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate alleged breaches by both sides in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  * 31 December – Israel started extraction from the Leviathan gas field.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 7 January – Moshe Arens (b. 1925), aeronautical engineer, diplomat and politician.
  * 25 January – Meshulam Riklis (b.1923), Turkish-born Israeli businessman.
  * 1 February – Yosef Sorinov (b. 1946), footballer.
  * 6 February – Yechiel Eckstein (b. 1951), Israeli-American rabbi.
  * 14 February – Michael Nudelman(b. 1938), politician.
  * 17 February – Ami Maayani (b. 1936), composer.
  * 26 February – Yizhak Sadai (b. 1935), composer.
  * 11 March – Yona Atari (b. 1933), singer and actress.
  * 11 March – Danny Ben-Israel (b. 1944), musician.
  * 23 March – Rafi Eitan (b. 1926), spy and politician.
  * 2 May – Micha Lindenstrauss (b. 1937), judge and State Comptroller.
  * 4 June – Nechama Rivlin (b. 1945), First Lady of Israel.
  * 7 July – Ora Namir (b. 1930), politician and diplomat.
  * 18 October Meir Shamgar (b. 1925), jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  * 8 December – Herbert Pundik (b. 1927), Danish-Israeli journalist and author.
  * 18 December – Geulah Cohen (b. 1925), politician and activist.
  