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Events in the year1971 in Israel.

• 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

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• 15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to thePLO,kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-generalEfraim Elrom inAnkara.^[1]
• 25 May – The body of Efraim Elrom is found inIstanbul.

The most prominent events related to theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1971 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

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The most prominentPalestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1971 include:

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets

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The most prominent Israeli militarycounter-terrorism operations (military campaigns andmilitary operations) carried out againstPalestinian militants during 1971 include:

• The founding of thekibbutzEl Rom.

• 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.

• 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.

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