1929 Safed massacre
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The 1929 Safed pogrom took place on 29 August during the 1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Uprising, the 1929 Massacres, , or the Buraq Uprising , refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence...

. Eighteen Jews were killed (some sources say twenty) and eighty wounded. The main Jewish street was looted and burned. The members of the Commission of Inquiry
Shaw Report
The Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929 or Shaw Report of March 1930 was a British report of a Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Sir Walter Shaw, a distinguished jurist, and consisting of three members of the British parliament, Sir Henry Betterton , R.Hopkin...

 visited the town on 1 November 1929.

See also

  • List of massacres in Israel
  • Timeline of Zionism
    Timeline of Zionism
    This is a partial timeline of Zionism in the modern era, since the start of the 16th century.-16th–18th centuries:1561: Joseph Nasi encourages Jewish settlement in Tiberias, having fled the Spanish Inquisition fourteen years previously in 1547...

  • Timeline of Jewish History
    Timeline of Jewish history
    This is a timeline of the development of Jews and Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar....

  • Riots in Palestine of May, 1921

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