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2023

The Seventh of October

Hamas's surprise attack on October 7 is the deadliest day in the country's history.

  1. Justice Minister Yariv Levin presents a plan for far-reaching changes to the judicial system; throughout the year, hundreds of thousands demonstrate against it, and its supporters also take to the streets.
  2. Noa Kirel finishes third at the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool with the song "Unicorn".
  3. Hamas launches a surprise attack on the communities near the Gaza border and on the Nova music festival; about 1,200 people are murdered and 251 are abducted into Gaza, and the Swords of Iron War breaks out.
  4. The IDF launches a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. By the end of the year, more than twenty thousand people have been killed in the Strip, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and many IDF soldiers also fall in the fighting.
  5. During a temporary ceasefire, 105 hostages, most of them women and children, are released from captivity, and in exchange Israel releases 240 Palestinian prisoners, women and minors.
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