Events in the year 2009 in Israel.
Leading Israeli TV personality Dudu Topaz commits suicide in prison while awaited trial over assaulting top Israeli media executives.
Ada Yonath is awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Omri Casspi becomes the first Israeli to play in the NBA league.
Ephraim Katzir
Events in the year 2008 in Israel.
19 May: Boaz Ma'uda performs at the Eurovision Song Contest.
8 July: The Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites
the loader used in the Jerusalem bulldozer attack on July 2, 2008 and a car which was destroyed during the attack
Israeli F-16i of the 107th Squadron preparing for take-off during Operation Cast Lead, December 2008