Events in the year 1990 in Israel. Incumbents President of Israel – Chaim Herzog Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Shamir (Likud) President of the Supreme Court – Meir Shamgar Chief of General Staff – Dan Shomron Government of Israel – 23rd Government of Israel until 11 June, 24th Government of Israel Events 22 February – USSR announce that they will not allow direct commercial flights to Israel. 27 February – Poland resumes diplomatic relations with Israel. 15 March – The dirty trick: Yitzhak Shamir's government is dissolved by a non-confidence vote of 60 to 55 in the Knesset. The Agudat Yisrael party votes for the motion, while the Shas party abstains. It is the only time in Israeli history that a government is dissolved by a motion of no confidence. The vote was 60 to 55. 28 March – The US House of Foreign Affairs committee approve a $400,000,000 loan for housing Soviet Jews in Israel. 29 March – The senior Israeli officer, Col. Yehuda Meir, who was accused of ordering soldiers to "systematically break the bones" of nearly two dozen bound Palestinian demonstrators, denied the eight charges filed against him in the court martial proceedings, which included abuse, intentionally causing serious damage and behavior unacceptable for an officer. 3 April – The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-2 is launched. 11 April – The dirty trick: Shimon Peres' new government is to be approved on this day. However, at the last moment, it is revealed that two Agudat Yisrael MKs are absent and therefore not going to support the motion to approve the new government, following Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's ruling not to support any concession of territory by Israel. 26 April – Israel's Supreme Court ordered the evacuation of 20 Jewish settlers, which provoked an international outcry when they moved to a building in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. 3 May – Bulgaria resumes diplomatic relations with Israel. 5 May – Rita represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Shara Barkhovot” ("Singing in the Streets"). 14 May – Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who shot and killed the Palestinian store owner Khayed Salah and injured the customer Ibrahim Bali when he was attacked by stone throwers in the center of the city Hebron on 30 September 1988, was convicted after signing a plea bargain. Levinger was sentenced to five months in prison. 20 May