1981 in Israel

Israel-related events during the year of 1981

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Events in the year 1981 in Israel.

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Events

Operation Opera is carried out on 7 June 1981 in which the Israeli Air Force severely damaged Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which occurred in 1981, include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1981 include:

  • March - A terrorist infiltrating from Lebanon using a motorized hang glider manages to reach Haifa and drop some bombs over the city's bay but is arrested after his glider's motor runs out of fuel and is forced to land.[10]
  • 10 August – Palestinian terrorists threw two bombs at an Israeli embassy in Vienna, wounding a 75-year-old woman.
  • 29 August – 1981 Vienna synagogue attack: Palestinian terrorists killed two people and wounded 30 attending a Bar Mitzvah in Vienna.[11]

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 1981 include:

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Notable births

Notable deaths

Moshe Dayan
  • 12 January – Hamad Abu Rabia (born 1929), Bedouin Israeli politician, murdered.
  • 11 February – Franz Sondheimer (born 1926), German-born Israeli-British chemist.
  • 25 March – Yonatan Ratosh (born 1908), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli poet and the founder of the Canaanite movement.
  • 8 May – Uri Zvi Grinberg (born 1896), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli poet and journalist.
  • 20 May – Binyamin Arditi (born 1897), Austrian-born Israeli politician.
  • 14 June – Haim Shirman (born 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli scholar of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry.
  • 17 June – Yitzhak Zuckerman (born 1915), Polish-born Israeli. One of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II.
  • 16 October – Moshe Dayan (born 1915), Israeli general and politician.
  • 9 December – Franz Ollendorff (born 1900), German-born Israeli physicist.

See also

References

  1. ^ "1981 Israel – Halaila". Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ^ Mordechai Bar-On, In pursuit of peace: a history of the Israeli peace movement (US Institute of Peace Press, 1996); "2 Syrian 'copters downed by Israel over Lebanon", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 April 1981, p1
  3. ^ Israelis down 2 Syrian copters
  4. ^ Grant, Rebecca. "Osirak and Beyond." Archived 11 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Air Force Magazine, August 2002. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
  5. ^ Robert G. Rabil, Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006) p69
  6. ^ BBC News. Regions and territories: The Golan Heights.
  7. ^ United Nations. Security Council Resolutions, 1981.
  8. ^ Council on Foreign Relations. UN Security Council Resolution 497.
  9. ^ Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why (I.B.Tauris, 1987) p202
  10. ^ 292 Statement in the Knesset by Defense Minister Rabin - 30 November 1987
  11. ^ "Around the World - Palestinians Get Life In Austrian Slayings." The New York Times. 22 January 1982.
  12. ^ Cheryl A. Rubenberg, Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination (University of Illinois Press, 1989) p267
  13. ^ "The Bombing of Beirut", Journal of Palestine Studies (1981) pp218–225;James Ron, Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel (University of California Press, 2003) p175
  14. ^ "Lebanese Civil War of 1975-90", Dictionary of Wars (George C. Kohn, ed.) (Infobase Publishing, 2006) p301
  15. ^ "Suspected Olympic massacre mastermind shot", Montreal Gazette, 6 August 1981, p10 Edward Mickolus, The Terrorist List: A-K (ABC-CLIO, 2009) p159

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