According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

He left the university in February 2005 and in May of that year became an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

However, a bombing in February 2005 shut the pipeline for several weeks, and attacks against the electrical gird system that provides energy to the Caño Limón oilfield have continued.

In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission ( IMC ) blamed the CIRA for planting four bombs in Northern Ireland during the final quarter of 2005, as well as several hoax bomb warnings.

* Luigi Poggi ( 26 February 2002 – 24 February 2005 )

* Jorge Medina Estévez ( 24 February 2005 – 23 February 2007 )

In February 2005, the Board of Directors ousted Fiorina.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

In February 2005, the Government Accountability Office released estimates of the cost of DADT.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts after a short illness.

* IMF Executive Board Concludes Consultation with Eritrea February 2005

Raymond stepped down as the president of the Open Source Initiative in February 2005.

# Dragons of Norrath ( February 2005 )

* Champions: Return to Arms, sequel to Champions of Norrath ( PS2, February 2005 )

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters ( who replaced Goff in late 2005 ) flew into Fiji on 8 February 2006 for three days of talks with Fijian government officials.

* Released: February 8, 2005

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

After the cessation of hostilities, the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement of 24 February 1949 established the separation line between Egyptian and Israeli forces, and established what became the present boundary between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Many Israelis opposed the plan, and tensions were very high in Israel before and after the Disengagement Plan was approved by the Israeli Knesset on 16 February 2005.

The first incident occurred on 21 February 1973, during a period of tension led to the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in October that year, when Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by Israeli F-4 jets over the Sinai Peninsula.

* February 12 – Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist ( b. 1885 )

* February 10 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer

* February 16 – In Lebanon, Israeli helicopter gun ships assassinate Abbas al-Musawi, the leader of Hezbollah, and his son, in retaliation for a February 14 raid that killed three Israeli soldiers.

* February 10 – Louis Guttman, American-born Israeli university professor ( d. 1987 )

* February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier ( b. 1920 )

* February 2 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist ( b. 1914 )

* February 19 – Gil Shaham, Israeli / American violinist

* February 21 – Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 ( Boeing 727 ) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane.

* February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( b. 1897 )

* February 17 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize ( d. 1965 )

* February 21 – Moshe Unna, Israeli politician ( b. 1902 )

* February 9: Dov and Gabriella Weiss of Giv ' at Ze ' ev, an Israeli settlement outside of Jerusalem, were found bludgeoned to death in their home.

* 6 February: An Israeli woman, her 11 year-old daughter and a soldier guarding them are killed in a gun attack in Hamra.

* 8 February: An Israeli woman is stabbed to death in a Jerusalem park by several Palestinian youths.

* 10 February: Two female Israeli soldiers are killed and four people are injured in a shooting attack at a civilian bakery near a military base in Beersheba.

* 14 February: A Merkava Mk III heavy tank is destroyed by a mine near Netzarim, killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding four.