2024 in Israel
overview of Israel-related events during the year of 2024
Events of the year 2024 in Israel.
Incumbents
President of Israel – Isaac Herzog
Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu
President of the Supreme Court – Uzi Vogelman (until 1 October), Yitzhak Amit (since 1 October)
Chief of General Staff – Herzi Halevi
Government of Israel – Thirty-seventh government of Israel
Ongoing
Gaza war
2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Gaza war protests in Israel
2024 Israeli protests
Israeli blockade of aid delivery to the Gaza Strip
Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
Iran–Israel proxy conflict
2024 Iran–Israel conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli civil investigation committee of the 2023 October 7 Hamas attack
Disappearance of Heimnot Kassau (פרשת היעלמותה של היימנוט קסאו)
Events
January
1 January –
Hamas fires a barrage of at least 27 rockets shortly after midnight at cities and towns in central and southern Israel.
The Supreme Court of Israel strikes down the reasonableness limitation law, part of the government's contentious judicial reform, for the first time in the country's history annulling one of the country's quasi-constitutional Basic Laws in a controversial decision splitting the court 8-7.
2 January – Israel conducts an airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau.
3 January – The Supreme Court delays the implementation of an amendment to a Basic Law that would protect the prime minister from being forced to recuse himself if ordered to do so by the attorney general or the Supreme Court, by postponing implementation until after the next Knesset is elected, so that it does not apply retroactively to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for several charges of corruption.
7 January – An Arab Israeli man is killed and a woman is critically injured by a Palestinian gunman north of Jerusalem.
8 January – Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy commander of Hezbollah's Redwan Force, in Majdel Selm, Lebanon is killed in a presumed Israeli airstrike.
9 January – Hezbollah launches a drone attack on the Northern Command headquarters in Safed, marking its deepest incursion into Israeli territory since the outbreak of hostilities. In retaliation, Israel kills Ali Hussein Barji, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for dozens of explosive drone attacks on northern Israel in recent months.
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