On January 4 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a severe hemorrhagic stroke and falls into a coma. As a result, power is transferred to his deputy, Vice Minister Ehud Olmert.

2006 Lebanon War – photo of Israeli soldiers of the Nahal Brigade leaving Lebanon.

Yitzchak Kaduri's funeral in Jerusalem

The Incense Route – Desert Cities in the Negev (which includes the four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta) and the Biblical Tels of Tel Megiddo, Tel Hazor and Tel Be'er Sheva are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites

Robert Aumann is awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan: Photo of residents riot during the forced evacuation of the Israeli community Kfar Darom. August 18, 2005.

Dudu Geva