2010
Fire on the Carmel
The Carmel disaster: the deadliest fire in the country's history claims the lives of forty-four people.
- Shayetet 13 naval commandos take over a flotilla to Gaza; in the incident aboard the Mavi Marmara, nine Turkish activists are killed and ten soldiers are wounded, and Israel–Turkey relations fall into crisis.
- Israel officially joins the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a member.
- A fire breaks out in the Carmel forests; forty-four people are killed, most of them Israel Prison Service cadets whose bus was trapped by the flames.
- Firefighting aircraft from many countries, including Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Russia and the United States, arrive to help put out the fire.
