1935 in Mandatory Palestine

1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1935 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1935

Events in the year 1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem

Events

• According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935.
• A split occurred between traditional Zionists and Revisionists, who endorsed the use of violence to establish a Zionist state.
• Arab leadership accepted a British proposal for a legislative assembly by the British High Commissioner, but it was rejected by the British House of Commons in 1936.
• 4 January – The British open the Mosul–Haifa oil pipeline, a major oil pipeline between the Mosul oil fields in Iraq and the Mediterranean port of Haifa in Palestine.
• 10 February – Nahariya is founded.
• April – Palestine Arab Party established.
• 2–10 April – 2nd Maccabiah Games are held in Tel Aviv, despite British opposition.
• 5–6 May – Renowned Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs in the Mugrabi Theater in Tel Aviv, continuing after to Jerusalem and Haifa.
• 23 June – Reform Party (Mandatory Palestine) established.
• 16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine.
• November – The Arab political parties demanded an end to Jewish immigration and land transfer, as well as the establishment of democratic institutions.
• 20 November – Sheikh Muhammad Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Sunni Islamic preacher and leader of the armed organization Black Hand which used violence against Jewish civilians and the British, is killed in a gunbattle with British police forces near Jenin.

Unknown dates

• National Bloc (Mandatory Palestine) established.

Births

• 7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor (died 2018)
• 18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister, ambassador to the United Nations, and Labor Party Knesset member (died 2007)
• 19 January – Ilan Amit, Israeli strategist, government adviser, and Mossad analyst (died 2013)
• 1 February – Ze'ev Almog, Israeli naval officer, former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy and manager of Israel Shipyards.
• 17 February – Uri Ilan, Israeli soldier who committed suicide in Syrian captivity, national hero in Israel (died 1955)
• 27 February – Yaakov Turner, Israeli politician, military officer, and police commander, mayor of Beersheba
• 24 March – Jacob Turkel, Israeli judge, former judge on the Supreme Court of Israel
• 29 March – Boaz Kofman, Israeli footballer and football manager
• 2 April – Uriel Lynn, Israeli lawyer and politician
• 8 April – Avi Primor, Israeli diplomat and publicist
• 15 June – Shimon Even, Israeli computer scientist (died 2004)
• 1 July – Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer and actor (died 2013)
• 5 July – Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and politician (in Poland)
• 13 July – Dan Almagor, Israeli playwright
• 9 September – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (died 2023)
• 30 October – Avraham Stern, Israeli politician (died 1997)
• 1 November – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist (died 2003)
• 4 November – Uri Zohar, former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi (died 2022).
• 15 November – Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority
• 24 November – Shlomo Amar, Israeli politician
• 15 December – Adnan Badran, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• 24 December – Arnon Soffer, Israeli demographer
• Full date unknown
  • Said Aburish, Palestinian Arab journalist and writer (died 2012).
  • Imil Jarjoui, Palestinian Arab politician (died 2007).
  • Avigdor Nebenzahl, Israeli rabbi and posek
  • Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and settlement activist (died 2015).
  • Eitan Tchernov, Israeli conservationist (died 2002).
  • David Ussishkin, Israeli archaeologist.

Deaths

• 9 June – Shmaryahu Levin (born 1867), Russian (Belarus)-born rabbi and Zionist activist.
• 1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook (born 1865), Russian (Latvia)-born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
• 20 November – Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (born 1882), Syrian-born Palestinian Muslim cleric who founded and headed the militant Black Hand movement and a number of other extreme anti-Jewish and anti-British groups. He was based in Haifa and president of the Young Men's Muslim Association there.