1921 in Mandatory Palestine

Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

1921 in British-administered Palestine
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See also: 1921 in the United Kingdom

Incumbents

• High Commissioner - Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
• Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein from 11 April
• Prime Minister of Transjordan - Rashid Tali’a from 11 April until 15 August; Mazhar Raslan

Events

• 12 March - Start of Cairo Conference which agrees that the administration of Transjordan should be separated from that of Palestine.
• 11 April - The establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan, which continues to remain part of the British Mandate of Palestine.
• 1 May–7 May - Jaffa riots: Riots in Jaffa result in the death of 47 Jews (including the author Yosef Haim Brenner) and 48 Arabs.
• 25 June - Fourth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem.
• October - The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry publishes its findings on the Jaffa Riots of the previous year.

Unknown dates

• The founding of the Hebrew Writers Association in the Land of Israel by Hayim Nahman Bialik.
• The founding of the kibbutz Tel Yosef by members of Gdud HaAvoda, named after Joseph Trumpeldor.
• The founding of the kibbutz Ein Harod by pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
• The founding of the moshav Nahalal by pioneers of the Second Aliyah and Third Aliyah.
• The founding of the moshava Ramat Gan.

Notable births

• 6 January - Haim Corfu, Israeli politician (died 2015)
• 16 January - Shmuel Toledano, Israeli politician and Mossad officer
• 17 January - Dan Tolkowsky, Israeli military officer, commander of the Israeli Air Force, and venture capitalist
• 17 January - Modi Alon, Israeli fighter pilot who commanded Israel's first fighter squadron, scored the first aerial victory of the Israeli Air Force (died 1948)
• 17 March - Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general, and intelligence officer (died 2009)
• 18 March - Joseph Tabenkin, Israeli military commander (died 1987)
• 9 April - Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel (died 2015)
• 26 August - Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (died 1994)
• 15 September - Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure (died 2004).
• 21 September - Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israeli military intelligence officer and Professor of International Relations (died 1994).
• 18 November - Baruch Ben Haim, Sephardic rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn for 55 years (died 2005).
• 2 October - Yisrael Peled, Israeli politician, second Mayor of Ramat Gan (died 2016).
• Full date unknown
  • Amos Hakham, Israeli Bible scholar (died 2012).

Notable deaths

• 2 May - Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature
• 5 May - Avshalom Gissin (born 1896), Zionist activist and Ottoman Army veteran killed defending Petah Tikva during the 1921 Palestine riots

References