Events of the year 2025 in Israel.

• President of Israel – Isaac Herzog
• Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu
• President of the Supreme Court – Yitzhak Amit
• Chief of General Staff – Herzi Halevi
• Government of Israel – Thirty-seventh government of Israel

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
• Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel

• 1 January – Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant resigns from the Knesset.^[1]
• 5 January – The first 50 Haredi Jewish soldiers are drafted into the Hasmonean Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).^[2]
• 6 January – Palestinian gunmen kill three Israelis and injure eight others in a mass shooting on a bus in al-Funduq, West Bank.^[3]
• 17 January –
  • The Cabinet of Israel approves a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.^[4]
  • Defense Minister Israel Katz announces that all Israeli settlers in administrative detention will be released in response to the release of Palestinian prisoners in the ceasefire deal.^[5]
• 19 January –
  • The ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal with Hamas comes into effect.^[6] The first three female hostages are released by Hamas and returned to Israel.^[7]
  • Itamar Ben-Gvir resigns as Minister of National Security in protest against the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.^[8] Two other members of his Otzma Yehudit party—Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu and Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf—resign from the coalition government alongside Ben-Gvir. Knesset members Zvika Fogel, Limor Son Har-Melech and Yitzhak Kroizer also resign from their positions.^[9]
  • The IDF announces that the body of Oron Shaul, who was killed and captured by Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War, was recovered in an operation in Northern Gaza.^[10]
• 20 January –
  • United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order lifting US sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank.^[11]
  • 90 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[12]
• 21 January –
  • Herzi Halevi announces his resignation as IDF chief of staff effective 6 March to take responsibility for the IDF's failure to prevent the 7 October attacks.^[13] Head of the Southern Command Yaron Finkelman also announces his resignation for the same reason.^[14]
  • The IDF conducts drone strikes and a ground raid in Jenin in a counterterrorism operation codenamed "Iron Wall", killing at least eight Palestinians and injuring 35.^[15][16]
  • The Knesset plenum passes a law criminalizing denial, trivialization, and celebration of the 7 October Hamas attack.^[17]
  • Four people are injured in a knife attack in Tel Aviv. The attacker, a Moroccan citizen with US residency, is shot dead.^[18]
• 25 January –
  • Four female IDF soldiers captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks, including Naama Levy, are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[19]
  • Two hundred Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.^[20]
• 26 January –
  • The initial deadline for Israeli forces to leave southern Lebanon under the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement expires and is extended to 18 February.^[21][22]
  • Acting president Yitzhak Amit is elected as the permanent President of the Supreme Court after a delay of 16 months.^[23]
• 30 January –
  • Three Israelis and five Thais captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[24]
  • 110 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[25]

• 1 February –
  • Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[26]
  • 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[27]
  • Prime Minister Netanyahu appoints retired Major General Eyal Zamir as IDF chief of staff.^[28]
• 4 February – Two soldiers and a Palestinian gunman are killed and eight soldiers are injured, two seriously, in a shooting at the Tayasir checkpoint in the West Bank.^[29]
• 5 February –
  • Foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar announces Israel's withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council over perceived discrimination against Israel.^[30]
  • A woman in Eilat dies from hypothermia during a winter storm that swept across Israel.^[31]
• 6 February – US president Donald Trump imposes sanctions against the International Criminal Court in part over its issuance of an arrest warrant against Netanyahu over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.^[32]
• 8 February –
  • 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[33]
  • Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[34]
• 13 February – Yitzhak Amit is sworn in as President of the Supreme Court in a ceremony boycotted by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana.^[35]
• 15 February –
  • 369 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[36]
  • Three Israelis captured by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the 7 October attacks are released by both groups as part of the ceasefire agreement.^[37]
• 16 February –
  • An American shipment of 1,800 Mark 84 2,000-lb bombs arrives in the Port of Ashdod.^[38]
  • The IDF completes its probes into the 7 October attacks and announces that its findings will presented starting the following week.^[39]
• 18 February – The IDF withdraws from all but five positions in southern Lebanon under the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement which expires the same day.^[40]
• 20 February –
  • Hamas returns the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and Oded Lifshitz, who were captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement. A fourth body, which Hamas claimed was Shiri Bibas, is later found to have been misidentified as a hostage.^[41] Hamas subsequently says that Shiri's remains had been mixed with those of other victims following an Israeli airstrike^[42][43] and that it will examine allegations over Shiri's remains, while asking Israel to return the body, which it identifies as a Palestinian woman.^[44][45]
  • The Knesset passes a law imposing an entry ban into Israel for people who deny the Holocaust and the 7 October attacks, as well as those who support legal punishment against Israelis over actions committed during IDF service.^[46]
  • Three buses explode and two explosive devices are found by authorities in a suspected militant attack in Bat Yam. No casualties are reported.^[47]
• 21 February – Hamas says that it had handed over the remains of Shiri Bibas, which are subsequently identified by forensic experts.^[48][49]
• 22 February – Four Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks and two others held in captivity after entering the Gaza Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015 are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement. They are the final living hostages held by Hamas to be released in the first phase of the deal.^[50][51]
• 24 February – French MEP Rima Hassan is denied entry to Israel as part of an EU-Palestine delegation, with Israeli authorities citing her support for anti-Israel boycotts.^[52]

• List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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• 13 April – Passover
• 19 April – Seventh day of Passover
• 14 May – Independence Day
• 2 June – Feast of Shavuot
• 23–24 September – Rosh Hashanah
• 2 October – Yom Kippur
• 7 October – Sukkot
• 14 October – Simchat Torah

• 2 January – Ágnes Keleti, (b. 1921), Hungarian-born artistic gymnast, Olympic champion (1952, 1956).^[54]
• 5 January – Clinton Bailey, (b. 1936), American-Israeli political scientist.^[55]
• 9 January – Shulamith Shahar, (b. 1928), Latvian-born historian.^[56]
• 18 January – Ze'ev Revach, (b. 1940), Moroccan-born actor (Charlie Ve'hetzi, Hagiga B'Snuker, The Farewell Party) and comedian.^[57]
• 29 January – Gideon Spiro, (b. 1935), journalist and activist.^[58]
• 9 February – Amal Nasser el-Din, (b. 1926), Druze author and politician, MK (1977–1988).^[59]
• 14 February – Avi Assouly, (b. 1950), French-Israeli journalist and politician, French deputy (2012–2014).^[60]

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