title: 1971 in Israel
text: # 1971 in Israel
  
  Events in the year 1971 in Israel.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President of Israel – Zalman Shazar
  * Prime Minister of Israel – Golda Meir (Alignment)
  * President of the Supreme Court – Shimon Agranat
  * Chief of General Staff – Haim Bar-Lev
  * Government of Israel – 15th Government of Israel
  
  ## Events
  
  * 15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.
  * 25 May – The body of Efraim Elrom is found in Istanbul.
  
  ### Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  
  The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1971 include:
  
  Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
  
  The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1971 include:
  
  Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
  
  The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1971 include:
  
  ### Unknown dates
  
  * The founding of the kibbutz El Rom.
  
  ## Notable births
  
  * 15 January – Inbal Perlmutter, Israeli musician (died 1997).
  * 30 January – Assaf Amdursky, Israeli singer.
  * 13 February – Alon Harazi, Israeli footballer.
  * 7 March – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer.
  * 12 April – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer.
  
  ## Notable deaths
  
  * 4 April – Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir (born 1910), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.
  * 6 June – Yitzhak Tabenkin (born 1888), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
  * 10 July – Chaim Sheba (born 1908), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli physician.
  * 19 July – Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (born 1901), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist.
  * 7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born Haredi Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.
  * 28 August – Reuvein Margolies (born 1889), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.
  * 1 September – Mordechai Ofer (born 1924), Polish-born Israeli politician.
  * 17 October – Shimon Bejarano (born 1910), Bulgarian-born Israeli politician.
  * 12 December – Yechezkel Kutscher (born 1909), Austro-Hungarian (Slovakia)-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.
  * Full date unknown
     * Yehoshua Bertonov (born 1879), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli stage actor.
     * Hillel Oppenheimer (born 1899), German-born Israeli professor of botany.
  