1945 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1945 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
- High Commissioner - John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort until 5 November; Sir Alan Cunningham
- Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - Samir al-Rifai until 19 May; Ibrahim Hashem
Events
Buchenwald survivors arrive in Haifa to be arrested by the British, 15 July 1945
- 11 July – The founding of the kibbutz Hukok.
- 15 July – Jewish holocaust survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp arrive at Haifa port and are arrested by the British.
- 31 August – U.S. President Harry Truman issues a statement requesting the British government to admit 100,000 Jewish refugees in Europe into Palestine.
- 27 September – The Defence Emergency Regulations are enacted by the Mandatory authorities.
- 2 November – Arabs demonstrate against the British
- 5 November – Sir Alan Cunningham assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine.
Notable births
- 17 January - Asher Grunis, Israeli jurist, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- 30 January - Yoram Lass, Israeli politician and physician, professor of medicine at Tel Aviv University
- 9 February - Haim Be'er, Israeli novelist
- 20 February - Amram Mitzna, Israeli politician and former general, acting Mayor of Yeruham, former Mayor of Haifa
- 23 February - Yossi Ben Hanan, Israeli general
- 1 March - Tom Segev, Israeli historian
- 1 March - Ehud Yaari, Israeli journalist
- 8 March - Atar Arad, Israeli-American musician
- 8 March - David Ascalon, Israeli sculptor and stained glass artist
- 15 March - Danny Yatom, Israeli politician and Mossad head
- 22 March - Hillel Weiss, Israeli literature professor
- 28 March - Ruth Gavison, Israeli jurist
- 29 March - Yehuda Barkan, Israeli actor, producer, director and screenwriter
- 2 April - Moshe Peled, Israeli politician
- 9 April - Adam Baruch, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic (died 2008)
- 10 April - Mordechai Mishani, Israeli politician (died 2013)
- 19 April - Eliezer Mizrahi, Israeli painter
- 21 April - Nadav Levitan, Israeli film director and screenwriter (died 2010)
- 26 April – Avishai Henik, Israeli neurocognitive psychologist
- 14 May - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer
- 28 May - Anat Maor, Israeli politician
- 30 May - Makram Khoury, Arab-Israeli actor, first Arab to win the Israel Prize
- 1 June - Menachem Froman, Israeli rabbi and political activist (died 2013)
- 5 June - Nechama Rivlin, First Lady of Israel (died 2019)
- 19 June - Leah Tsemel, Israeli lawyer
- 27 June - Ami Ayalon, Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party
- 3 July - Saharon Shelah, Israeli mathematician
- 5 July - Yosef Shapira, Israeli judge, current State Comptroller of Israel
- 18 August - Yair Shamir, Israeli politician, businessman, and Air Force officer
- 30 August - Daniella Weiss, Israeli settlement movement activist
- 31 August – Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-American violinist and conductor
- 29 September - Yair Garbuz, Israeli artist
- 30 September – Ehud Olmert, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
- 10 October - Miriam Adelson, Israeli-American philanthropist
- 14 October - Muki Betser, Israeli special forces officer, founder of the Shaldag Unit
- 9 November - Zevulun Orlev, Israeli politician
- 23 November - Assi Dayan, Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (died 2014)
- 27 November - Akiva Eldar, Israeli journalist
- 1 December - Rami Bar-Niv, Israeli pianist, composer, and author
- 22 December - Amiram Goldblum, Israeli chemist and political activist
- 31 December - Tuvia Tzafir, Israeli actor and comedian
- Full date unknown
- Giora Romm, Israeli Air Force officer, director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel
- Adina Bar-Shalom, Israeli educator, columnist, and social activist.
- Yosef Amit, Israeli military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for the United States
- Erela Golan, Israeli politician
- Amir Nachumi, Israeli Air Force general and ace
- Eli Alon, Israeli anesthesiologist
- Nitza Metzger-Szmuk, Israeli archaeologist
- Mahmoud al-Zahar, Palestinian militant, co-founder of Hamas
Notable deaths
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- 22 January - Else Lasker-Schüler (born 1869), German-born Palestinian Jewish poet
- 11 June - Eliyahu Golomb (born 1893), Russian (Belarus)-born leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah
- 20 July - Yohanan Levi (born 1901), German-born Palestinian Jewish Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period
- 11 November - Yehoshua Hankin (born 1864), Russian (Ukraine)-born Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine
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