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11 February – The
Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with
Israel after an explosion occurs in the Soviet embassy building in
Tel Aviv, which was planted by the
Tzrifin Underground.
4 March – The remains of
Naftali Herz Imber, a Ukrainian-born Jewish poet who wrote the lyrics of Israel's national anthem "
Hatikvah", are brought to Israel from New York in accordance with his will.
26 May – Two members of the radical religious Jewish underground organisation
Brit HaKanaim are arrested while on their way to plant an explosive device in
Israeli Ministry of Education building, in protest against the
State Education Law (חוק חינוך ממלכתי).
20 April – The
Israel Prize is awarded for the first time.
19 August –
Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of
the Holocaust, is established in
Jerusalem through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the
Knesset.
29 August – Three young Israeli men and two young Israeli women who attempt secretly to cross the border into
Jordan in order see the ancient city of
Petra are killed by Jordanian soldiers.
28 September – Following military action against the
'Azazme bedouin the
IDF established the kibbutz
Ktzi'ot.
14 October –
Operation Shoshana (מבצע שושנה), also known as
Qibya massacre: Following an attack in which an Israeli mother and her two children are killed,
IDF forces under the command of
Ariel Sharon attack the Arab village
Qibya in the
West Bank, which had been annexed by
Jordan in 1950. Sixty-nine Jordanian citizens are killed during the operation.
14 April – Armed Palestinian infiltrators tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One of the boats was intercepted and the other boat escaped.
25 May – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attack an Israeli family in
Beit Nehemia, killing a woman and wounding her husband and her two children.
7 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attacked residential areas in southern Jerusalem, killing a youngster and wounding three others.
9 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attacked a farming community near
Lod, and killed one of the residents. The gunmen threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of
Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory.
10 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, enter kibbutz
Mishmar Ayalon and kill a 19-year-old Israeli woman in her sleep.
11 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw
hand grenades into a young couple's home in the moshav
Kfar Hess, killing an Israeli woman and severely wounding her husband.[2]
2 September – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw
hand grenades in all directions in the neighborhood of
Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. No one was hurt.
12 October –
Yehud attack: Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw hand grenades into a home in the
Yehud, killing two young children (a 3-year-old girl and a one-and-a-half-year old boy).
Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
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February – 12 March to 15 infiltrators from the Gaza Strip killed when they trigger a 50 kg TNT booby-trap while trying to steal water pipelines near
Yad Mordechai.[5]
22 April –
IDF snipers in
West Jerusalem open fire across the armistice line killing six.[6]
^Aloni, Shlomo, "Last of the Fighting 'Wooden Wonders': The DH Mosquito in Israeli Service", Air Enthusiast No. 83, Stamford, Lincs., UK, September/October 1999, p. 44.
^Morris, Benny (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956. Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-827850-0. pp. 171-172. Quotes American vice-consul: "this particular incident seems to have a rather unusual quality of brutality about it."
^Morris, Benny (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956. Arab infiltration, Israeli retaliation, and the countdown to the Suez War. Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-827850-0. p. 134.