February 13 – Venezuelan disputed interim President Juan Guaidó states that he is working to restore ties with Israel, which were broken by Hugo Chávez's anti-Israeli policy, while also weighing whether to relocate the nation's embassy into Jerusalem.[2]
February 18 – A summit between Israel and the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) is cancelled following Poland's reaction and withdrawal as a result of Israeli officials' statements on the Holocaust alleging Polish involvement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will hold bilateral talks with the three prime ministers attending.[5]
February 26 – A JewishIsraeli teen is convicted of membership of a terror organisation, arson, and racially aggravated assault. He is the second Jewish person convicted of terror group membership ever in Israel in connection to crimes against Palestinians. His conviction was announced today, but occurred last week in secrecy.[7]
February 27 –
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Russian PresidentVladimir Putin that Israel will "continue to take action against Iran in Syria".[8]
Ukraine withdraws from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel, after Ukrainian entrant Maruv said she refused to be used as a "political tool" after being asked to sign a contract saying she wouldn't hold any concerts in Russia in the lead up to the event.[9]
Shin Bet arrest lawyer Tarek Barghout, an attorney who has represented "terror" suspects, and a Palestinian man named Zakaria Zubeidi for what it calls "their involvement in serious and current terrorist activities."[10]
February 28 – The Attorney General of IsraelAvichai Mandelblit says that after more than two years of investigations he has decided to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.[11]
In response to a possible accidental launching of two rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv the day before, Israel launches hundreds of counter strikes directed at the town of Khan Yunis.[14][15]
Syria has not publicly responded to President Trump's decision, with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, declaring this action irrelevant and illegal.[18][19]
Seven people are moderately injured after a rocket attack destroys a home in Mishmeret, Israel. The Israel Defense Forces claim that Hamas is responsible for any attack from Gaza.[21]
March 26 – A senior Hamas official claims that Iranian leaders ordered the March 25, 2019 rocket attack on Mishmeret, injuring seven Israelis, which was carried out by the IJMP and funded by Iran, claiming that the goal was to jeopardize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chances of getting reelected in the April 9 elections.[28][29]
March 30 –
Israel Cleantech Ventures' Gro Intelligence reports that at least 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of U.S. farmland were flooded from the early March blizzard storm that affected nine major grain-producing states.[30]
Commemorating the one year anniversary of the Gaza border protests, tens of thousands of Palestinians gather on the border to commemorate the weekly gatherings, with Israeli Border Patrol killing four Palestinian protesters and injuring more than 300.[31][32]
12 December – Israel will need to hold its third general election in less than a year. This is totally unprecedented in Israel's history because of the apparent inability of any of the major parties to be able to form a governing coalition that would be decisive under the laws of Israel's parliamentary system.[41]
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