March 7 –Ariel Sharon presents his cabinet for a Knesset "Vote of Confidence". The29th Government is approved that day and the members were sworn in.
March 22 – Israeli former general, defense minister and transportation ministerYitzhak Mordechai is convicted of harassing and sexually assaulting two women, and receives an 18-month suspended sentence.[1][2] Several days after his conviction, he resigned from the Knesset.
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 2001 include:
January 21–27 –Taba Summit: Peace talks between Israel and thePalestinian Authority aimed at reaching the "final status" of negotiations.Ehud Barak temporarily withdraws from negotiations during the Israeli elections, subsequentlyAriel Sharon refuses to continue negotiating in the face of the newly erupted violence.
July 19 –Kach members fire on a car in the West Bank killing three Palestinians.[citation needed]
Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
January 1 –Netanya center bombing: 54 people are injured when a car, containing 44 pounds of explosives, explodes near a bus stop in Netanya's shopping district. Hamas claimed responsibility.[4]
March 1 –Mei Ami junction bombing: An Israeli is killed and nine other people are injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb in a service taxi. Hamas claimed responsibility.[7]
March 4 –Netanya bombing: 3 elderly Israelis are killed in a suicide bombing in downtown of the coastal city ofNetanya.Hamas claims responsibility.[8]
March 27 –Talpiot industrial zone bombing: 7 people are injured in acar bomb attack during the morning rush hour in the Talpiot neighborhood in southeast Jerusalem.Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.[9]
March 27 –Egged bus No. 6French Hill junction bombing: 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing on a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill Junction. Hamas claimed responsibility.[10]
March 28 – Mifgash Shalom attack: 3 Israelis are killed in a suicide bombing.Hamas claims responsibility.[11]
April 16 – Five mortar shells land, for the first time in the history of Israel, in the Israeli cityAshdod.
April 22 – Kfar Saba bombing: A Palestinian Arab suicide bomber kills an Israeli doctor of American origin inKfar Saba and injures 60 others.Hamas claims responsibility.[12][13]
April 23 –Or Yehuda bombing: 8 people are lightly injured when a car explodes in the town ofOr Yehuda. Hamas claimed responsibility. Hamas claimed responsibility.[14]
May 18 –Kenyon HaSharon bombing: 5 Israelis are killed in a suicide bombing in a shopping mall inNetanya and over 100 are wounded. Hamas claims responsibility.[15]
May 25 – Hadera bus station suicide bombing: at least 12 people are injured when a car explodes near the bus station in the cityHadera. Hamas claimed responsibility.[16]
May 27 – Jerusalem bombings: twocar bombs detonate in the center of Jerusalem. The explosions caused no serious injuries.PFLP claimed responsibility.[17]
May 30 –Netanya school bombing: a car bomb detonates outside a school in the coastal city ofNetanya. The explosion caused no serious injuries. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.[18]
June 22 –Dugit bombing: 2 Israeli soldiers are killed when a Booby trapped car explodes near the Jewish settlement ofDugit. Hamas claimed responsibility.[23]
July 2 –Yehud suburb bombing: 2 bombs which were planted in cars of 2 Yehud residents explode. The explosion caused no serious injuries.PFLP claimed responsibility.[24]
July 9 –Kissufim bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates his car near a in the Southern Gaza Strip crossing point of Kissufim. The explosion caused no serious injuries. Hamas claimed responsibility.[25][26]
July 16 –Binyamina Railway Station bombing: 2 Israeli soldiers are killed and 8 civilians are injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonates himself near the entrance to the Binyamina railway station.[27]
August 9 –Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt weighing five to ten kilograms, containing explosives, nails, nuts and bolts, detonates his bomb. In the blast 15 people (including seven children) are killed, and 130 wounded. BothHamas and theIslamic Jihad initially claim responsibility.[29]
August 12 – Wall-Street cafe bombing: One Israeli is killed and 15 others are injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonates himself at the "Wall-Street" cafe inKiryat Motzkin. The Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.[30]
August 21 –Russian Compound bombing: Palestinian militants explode a bomb in the center of Jerusalem. The explosions caused no serious injuries.[31]
September 4 – Jerusalem car bomb attacks: Four bombs explode at the same time in Jerusalem. The explosions caused no serious injuries.[32]
September 9 –Beit Lid Junction bombing: 12 Israelis are injured when 2 car bomb attacks near a bus at the Beit Lid junction nearNetanya. The Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.[34]
September 15 – Meir Weisshaus, 23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot in adrive-by shooting on theRamot-French Hill road.[35]
October 17 –Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi: The Israeli tourism ministerRehavam Zeevi is assassinated in Jerusalem Hyatt hotel by four Palestinian Arab gunmen, members of thePFLP terrorist organization
November 4 – Shoshana Ben Ishai, 16, ofBetar Illit, and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack.[37]
February 13 – The Israeli army assassinateForce 17 commander Massud Ayyad inJabaliya, firing four air-to-surface rockets at his car. Israel states that he was the leader of a Gaza-basedHizbullah cell.[45][46]
May 7 – Israel seizes thePalestinianfreighter "Santorini" near the shores ofHaifa which was on her way fromLebanon to the shores of the Gaza Strip and was found to be carrying a massive amount of weaponry.[47][48]
July 13 –Hamas activist Fawaz Badran, is killed inTulkarm when his car explodes in an apparent assassination.[51][52]
July 17 – In retaliation to a Palestinian suicide attack which took place the day before in theBinyamina Railway Station, an Israeli helicopter killed four Hamas activists inBethlehem, whom Israel claimed were planning an attack on the closing ceremony of theMaccabiah Games.[53][54]
August 5 – Israeli helicopters fire a pair of laser-guided rockets at a car in the northern West Bank city ofTulkarm carrying the Hamas activist Amer Hassan Madiri.[55][56]
August 10 – following the events of theAl-Aqsa Intifada and in response to theSbarro restaurant massacre, Israeli border police forces raided and took control over theOrient House inEast Jerusalem, which was used in the 1980s and 1990s as the headquarters of thePLO in East Jerusalem, as well as nine other unofficial PLO offices in Jerusalem.[57]
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September 8 –Dudu Dotan (born1949), Israeli entertainer and actor.
October 17 –Rehavam Zeevi (born1926), Israeli minister and former general, killed by Palestinian militants during theSecond Intifada.
November 2 – RabbiElazar Shach (born 1899), Russian (Lithuania)-born co-founder of the political partiesShas andDegel HaTorah, leader of the Lithuanian Orthodox community in Israel.
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