1999 in Israel

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Events in the year 1999 in Israel.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) until July 6, Ehud Barak (Israeli Labor Party)
• President of Israel – Ezer Weizman

Events

The recovered conning tower of the INS Dakar in the Naval Museum, Haifa.

• March 9 – Rana Raslan becomes the first Israeli Arab to win the Miss Israel pageant.
• March 17 – Aryeh Deri is convicted of taking bribes while serving as Interior Minister of Israel and is sentenced to four years in prison and receives a fine of 250,000 NIS.
• May 17 – Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
• May 28 – A joint U.S.–Israeli search team find the wreck of the long-lost Israeli submarine INS Dakar in the Mediterranean sea.
• May 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest is held in Jerusalem.
• July 6 – Prime Minister Ehud Barak presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The 28th Government is approved that day and the members were sworn in.
• August 22 – Tal committee: The prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak appoint an Israeli public committee, headed by the retired judge Tzvi Tal, to deal with the special exemption from mandatory military service in the Israel Defense Forces given to Israeli Ultra Orthodox Jews.

Palestinian terror attacks

Main articles: Palestinian political violence § Oslo Accords to Camp David Summit (1993–2000), and List of Palestinian suicide attacks § 1999 (2 bombings)

The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1999 include:

• September 9 – Egged Bus 960 bombing
• September 9 – Haifa Central Bus Station bombing

Notable Deaths

• February 28 – Erez Gerstein, commander of the Golani Brigade and Lebanon Liaison Unit, killed from a roadside bomb in Lebanon. (b. 1960)
• March 27 – Nahum Stelmach, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1936).
• April 20 – Bethsabée de Rothschild, Israeli-French philanthropist (b. 1914).
• July 18 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer (b. 1942)
• August 18 – Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, theater director, poet and writer (b. 1943).
• October 1 – Ted Arison, Israeli-American businessman (b. 1924).
• October 15 – Yosef Burg, Israeli politician and Rabbi (b. 1909).

See also

• 1999 in Israeli film
• 1999 in Israeli television
• 1999 in Israeli music
• 1999 in Israeli sport
• Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999