January 17 – Lieutenant-GeneralDan Halutz, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, resigns while inquiries into the performance of theIsrael Defense Forces in the action againstHezbollah continue.[1]
January 24 – PresidentKatsav holds a press conference broadcast live on Israeli news broadcasts in which he accuses journalists of persecuting him and judging him before all the evidence has been presented and before actually being convicted. In addition, he also accuses the police, who he claims did everything to prove that he is guilty.
June 13 – In the2007 Presidential Election, theKnesset electsShimon Peres as theninth president of the State of Israel, by a second-round vote of 86 for and 23 against, following the withdrawal in his favour of the other two candidates. In the first round, Peres had failed to obtain an absolute majority in the 120-member Knesset receiving 58 votes, against 38 forReuven Rivlin and 21 forColette Avital. (Peres does not assume office until July 15.)
June 28 – PresidentKatsav's lawyers reach a controversialplea bargain with Israel’s attorney general,Menachem Mazuz. According to the deal, Katsav would plead guilty to several counts ofsexual harassment and indecent acts and receive a suspended jail sentence, and pay compensation to two of his victims. The more serious rape charges brought by the initial employee, A., have been dropped, as well as Katsav's original charges of her blackmailing him.
June 7–15 –Battle of Gaza:Hamas takes control of the entireGaza Strip after numerous gun battles, and establishes a separate government whileFatah remains in control of theWest Bank. This in practice divides the area administered by thePalestinian Authority into two. ChairmanMahmoud Abbas and the more moderateFatah party advocate a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel, while Prime MinisterIsmail Haniyeh and the IslamistHamas party reject Israel's right to exist.
May 2 –Hamas andIslamic Jihad launch at least 18 rockets into Israel, damaging a road, hitting a car in a commercial center ofSderot, killing an Israeli woman and lightly wounding 2 others.
May 21 – A man is killed inSderot after a rocket landed near the car in which he was sitting.
September 10 – TwoQassam rockets are fired fromBeit Hanun at theZikim Army Base in Israel located near the Gaza Border. One of them lands safely in theNegev, but the other lands near unfortifiedbarracks (Zikim military base) at the base where Israelirecruits were sleeping. This resulted in at least 66 wounded, with at least 10 moderately to seriously. 69 soldiers were wounded by the rocket, 60+ of them had only light-to moderate shrapnel wounds, but four of them were injured seriously. One of the four had to have his legamputated, and another was in a critical condition. BothIslamic Jihad and PRC claimed responsibility.[15][16]
Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
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May 17 –Gaza–Israel conflict: An Israeli aircraft bombs a building of theHamas-run Executive Force inGaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others.[18]
May 20 –Gaza–Israel conflict: AnIAF plane fires a missile at house ofHamas lawmakerKhalil al-Haya, killing eight people (6 of whom were civilians) and wounding many others; Al-Haya was not at his house at the time of the strike.[19]
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