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Events in the year1992 in Israel.

• President of Israel –Chaim Herzog
• Prime Minister of Israel –Yitzhak Shamir (Likud) until 13 July,Yitzhak Rabin (Israeli Labor Party)
• President of the Supreme Court –Meir Shamgar
• Chief of General Staff –Ehud Barak
• Government of Israel –24th Government of Israel until 13 July,25th Government of Israel

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• 24 January – Israel and People's Republic ofChina first establisheddiplomatic relations.^[1]
• 7 March – Ehud Sadan, the security chief for the Israeli embassy inAnkara,is assassinated in a car bombing.^[2]
• 9 March – The Israeli left-wing political partyMeretz is formed by an alliance of three left-wing parties;Ratz,Mapam andShinui, and is initially led byShulamit Aloni.
• 9 May –Dafna Dekel representsIsrael at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Ze Rak Sport” ("It’s Just Sport"), achieving sixth place.^[3]
• 23 June – TheElections for the 13th Knesset are held in Israel. The result is a victory forYitzhak Rabin'sIsraeli Labor Party.
• 13 July –Yitzhak Rabin presents his cabinet for aKnesset "Vote of Confidence". The25th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.
• 28 July –Carmelit reopened after intensive renovation from1986.
• 30 July –Yael Arad wins a silver medal injudo in the1992 Summer Olympics. This was the first Olympic medal won by an Israeli athlete.
• 4 October – TheBijlmerramp disaster:El Al Flight 1862, aBoeing 747 freighter, crashes into high-rise apartment buildings inAmsterdam after two of its engines detach from the wing. A total of 43 people were killed, consisting of the plane's crew of three and a non-revenue passenger in ajump seat, plus 39 persons on the ground. Many more were injured.^[4][5][6]
• 5 November –Tze'elim II disaster: 5Sayeret Matkal soldiers die in an accident while training for a military operation.

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1992 include:

• 17 December – Israel deports 415Hamas activists toLebanon.

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

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The most prominentPalestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1992 include:

• 14 February –Night of the Pitchforks (ליל הקילשונים): Three Israeli soldiers are killed byIsraeli Arabs at a militaryrecruit training base near KibbutzGal'ed.
• 17 March – A suicide car-bomb explodes at the Israeli Embassy inBuenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 and injuring 242.
• 24 May –15-year-old Israeli Helena Rapp is stabbed to death by 18-year-old Palestinian Fuad Muhammad Abdulhadi Amrin at her her school bus stop inBat Yam.
• 22 September –Magavnik Avinoam Peretz,is shot and killed by anAl-Qassam Brigades gunman inFrench Hill in northeastern Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the assassination.
• 13 December – Hamas activists kidnap and kill an Israeli Border Police officer, Nissim Toledano. This event precipitated Israel's decision to deport 415 Hamas activists to Lebanon four days later.

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 1992 include:

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• 14 January –Ahad Azam, footballer.
• 4 June –Matan Balestra, footballer.
• 16 August –Adi Gotlieb, footballer.
• 9 December –Sean Labanowski, basketball player.

• 9 March –Menachem Begin (born 1913), Russian (Belarus)-born Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize.
• 18 June –Mordecai Ardon (born 1896), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli painter.
• 22 July –Ya'akov Hazan (born 1899), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli politician and social activist.
• 10 August –Shimon Agranat (born 1906), American-born former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
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  • Dina Feitelson (born 1926), Austrian-born Israeli educator.
  • Gad Tedeschi (born 1907) Italian-born Israeli jurist.

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