1994 in Israel

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Rabin
• President of Israel – Ezer Weizman
• Chief of General Staff – Ehud Barak
• Government of Israel – 25th Government of Israel

  Events

• January 12 – Major General Nehemiah Tamari's helicopter crashed near Central Command headquarters, killing both him and three other officers.
• May 21 – Mustafa Dirani kidnapping: Israeli commandos kidnap Mustafa Dirani, an officer of the Lebanese Amal Shi'a militia..
• July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration which formally ends the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.
• August 8 – The Wadi Araba Crossing opens, becoming the first border crossing between Israel and Jordan.
• October 26 – Israel and Jordan sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace, witnessed by US President Bill Clinton.

  Israeli–Palestinian conflict

• February 25 – Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before he realizes what he did.
• May 4 – Israel and the PLO sign the Gaza–Jericho Agreement.
• May 18 – Israeli forces withdraw from Jericho and Gaza City in compliance with the Oslo accords.
• December 10 – Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

• April 6 – Afula Bus suicide bombing: Eight Israelis are killed by a Palestinian Arab suicide car bomb, which explodes in Afula.
• April 13 – Hadera central station suicide bombing: Five Israelis are killed and another 30 are wounded during a Palestinian Arab suicide attack on a public bus in Hadera during Israel's Fallen Soldiers Remembrance Day.
• July 26 – Attack on the embassy of Israel in London: A vehicle packed with 30 pounds of explosives exploded at the Israeli Embassy in London, wounding 20. Five Palestinians were arrested in London in January 1995 in connection with both bombings.
• October 9 – Kidnapping of Nachshon Wachsman: IDF soldier Corporal Nachshon Wachsman is kidnapped by Hamas militants disguised as Jewish settlers. They later demand the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and another 200 Palestinian Arab prisoners from Israeli prison in return for Wachsman's release.
• October 19 – Dizengoff Street bus bombing: 21 Israelis and a Dutch national are killed after a suicide attack on a bus in Tel Aviv. This was the first major suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Hamas claims responsibility for the bombing.
• November 11 – Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing: Three Israeli soldiers are killed when a Palestinian Arab detonated explosives strapped to his body as he rode his bicycle into an Israeli Army checkpoint at a road junction close to the former Israeli settlement of Netzarim.
• November 30 – 19-year-old female Israeli soldier Sgt. Liat Gabai is axed to death by the Palestinian Arab Islamic militant Wahib Abu Alrub in the center of the Israeli city Afula.
• December 25 – Jerusalem Binyanei HaUma suicide bombing: 13 people are injured by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. Hamas claims responsibility.

• October 14 – Israeli elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal attempt to free the kidnapped IDF hostage Nachshon Wachsman held by Palestinian assailants in the village of Bir Nabala in the West Bank; Wachsman and Nir Poraz, the commander of the rescue force, are killed by the assailants during the raid.

  Notable deaths

• January 10 – Yigal Hurvitz, Israeli politician.
• January 12 – Nehemiah Tamari, Israeli major general and head of Central Command.
• February 13 – Simcha Holtzberg, Polish-born Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor.
• February 19 – Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Israeli educator and politician.
• April 3 – Aharon Remez, Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force.
• May 7 – Haim Bar-Lev, Austrian-born Israeli general and politician, eighth Chief of General Staff of the IDF.
• June 6 – Yohai Ben-Nun, Sixth commander of the Israeli Navy.
• June 16 – Yohanan Bader, Austro-Hungarian -born Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician.
• July 6 – Baruch Osnia, Russian -born Israeli politician
• August 8 – Mordechai Seter, Russian-born Israeli composer.
• August 18 – Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Russian -born Israeli philosopher and scientist.
• September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician.
• October 14 – Nachshon Wachsman, kidnapped IDF soldier, killed during an attempted rescue operation.
• October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Polish-born Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel.

  Major public holidays