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2014

Summer of Protective Edge

The abduction of three teenagers and Operation Protective Edge shake Israel through a long and painful summer.

  1. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passes away, eight years after suffering a stroke.
  2. The Knesset elects Reuven Rivlin as the tenth President of the State.
  3. Three teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel, are abducted at a hitchhiking stop in Gush Etzion and murdered by terrorists; their bodies are found on 30 June. Two days later, Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir of Jerusalem is abducted and murdered by three Jews, a murder that also shocked the country.
  4. Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, during which Hamas attack tunnels are exposed and destroyed; seventy-three Israelis are killed in the operation, and more than two thousand Palestinians are killed in the Gaza Strip.
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