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Israel's History:
1961

1961:
by Nimrod Grinvald, Hagalil

  • Operation Yachin, bringing immigrants from Morroco to Israel, commences.

  • The Egoz, carrying immigrants from Morocco, sinks; 43 people drown.

  • The Shavit II, an experimental meterological satellite, is launched.

  • Eichmann Trial
    Adolf Eichmann, organizer of the Nazi extermination program during World War 2, stands trial in Jerusalem; he is found guilty and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and the Jewish people, and is hanged in 1962.

  • Israel Ber, military historian and advisor to the Minister of Defense, is arrested for spying for the USSR and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

  • Elections for the 5th Knesset.

  • Hai Bar - a project to reintroduce animals which once roamed the land of Israel to their former natural habitats - begins; stations are set up in the Arava and the Carmel forest.

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