The Israeli Chess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel.

History

From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two years, eventually becoming an annual event.

Winners

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! # !! Year !! Junior Champion |- | 1 || 1951 || Raaphi Persitz |- | 2 || 1954 || Giora Peli |- | 3 || 1958 || Yedael Stepak |- | 4 || 1959 || Yehuda Oppenheim |- | 5 || 1960 || Israel Gat |- | 6 || 1961 || Daniel Mor |- | 7 || 1962 || Israel Gelfer |- | 8 || 1963 || Yaacov Bleiman |- | 9 || 1964 || Yaacov Bleiman |- | 10 || 1965 || Amikam Balshan |- | 11 || 1966 || Abraham Neyman |- | 12 || 1967 || Nathan Birnboim |- | 13 || 1968 || Nathan Birnboim On Neyman |- | 14 || 1969 || Yoel Temanlis |- | 15 || 1970 || Arie Lev |- | 16 || 1971 || Chagai Scheinwald |- | 17 || 1972 || Chagai Scheinwald |- | 18 || 1973 || David Bernstein |- | 19 || 1974 || Yehuda Gruenfeld |- | 20 || 1975 || Nir Greenberg |- | 21|| 1976 || Ehud Lahav |- | 22|| 1977 || Michael Pasman |- | 23 || 1978 || Alon Greenfeld |- | 24|| 1979 || Alon Greenfeld |- | 25|| 1980 || Dan Lapan |- | 26 || 1981 || Ran Shabtai |- | 27|| 1982 || Moshe Pyernik |- | 28 || 1983 || Ofer Brook |- | 29|| 1984 || Ronen Lev |- | 30|| 1985 || Ilan Manor |- | 31 || 1986 || Danny Barash |- | 32|| 1987 || Ronen Lev |- | 33|| 1988 || Ilan Manor |- | 34|| 1989 || Eran Liss |- | 35|| 1990 || Dan Zoler |- | 36 || 1991 || Victor Mikhalevski |- | 37|| 1992 || Victor Mikhalevski |- | 38|| 1993 || Eran Liss |- | 39|| 1994 || Michael Oratovsky |- | 40|| 1995 || Alik Vydeslaver |- | 41 || 1996 || Boris Avrukh |- | 42|| 1997 || Dimitri Tyomkin |- | 43|| 1998 || Alexander Rabinovich |- | 44|| 1999 || Michael Roiz |- | 45|| 2000|| Alik Gershon |- | 46 || 2001|| Evgeny Postny |- | 47|| 2002|| Sergey Erenburg |- | 48|| 2003|| Sergey Erenburg |- | 49|| 2004|| Baruch Sternberg |- | 50|| 2005|| Gaby Livshits |- | 51|| 2006|| Maxim Rodshtein |- |52 |2007 |Sasha Kaplan |- | 53|| 2008||Gil Popilsky |- |54 |2012 |Asaf Givon |- |55 |2014 |Asaf Givon |- |56 |2015 |Nimrod Veinberg |- |57 |2017 |Avital Borochovsky |- |58 |2018 |Johnatan Bakalchuk |- |59 |2019 |Yair Parkhov |- |60 |2020 |Erez Kupervaser |} |}

Notes

References

Bibliography

• (results through 1982)