1936 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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««« 1935 1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine 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:... 1934 1934 in the British Mandate of Palestine Events in the year 1934 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:... 1933 1933 in the British Mandate of Palestine Events in the year 1933 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 - Abdallah Sarraj until 18 October; Ibrahim Hashem... |
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1937
1937 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1937 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:...
1938
1938 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1938 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Incumbents:* High Commissioner - Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope until 1 March; Sir Harold MacMichael* Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein...
1939
1939 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1939 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Incumbents:* High Commissioner - Sir Harold MacMichael* Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein* Prime Minister of Transjordan - Tawfik Abu al-Huda-Events:...
1936 in the United Kingdom
1936 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1936 in the United Kingdom.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King George V , King Edward VIII , King George VI*Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, national coalition-Events:...
Other events of 1936
Events in the year 1936 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Incumbents
- High CommissionerHigh Commissioners of PalestineHigh Commissioners of Palestine were the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the British Mandate of Palestine. They were based in Jerusalem...
– Sir Arthur Grenfell WauchopeArthur Grenfell WauchopeGeneral Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope GCB GCMG CIE DSO was a British soldier and colonial administrator.-Military career:Educated at Repton School, Wauchope was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1893. He transferred to 2 Bn Black Watch in 1896.He served in World War I as... - Emir of TransjordanTransjordanThe Emirate of Transjordan was a former Ottoman territory in the Southern Levant that was part of the British Mandate of Palestine...
– Abdullah I bin al-HusseinAbdullah I of JordanAbdullah I bin al-Hussein, King of Jordan [‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] عبد الله الأول بن الحسين born in Mecca, Second Saudi State, was the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah... - Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim HashemIbrahim HashemIbrahim Hashem was a Jordanian lawyer and politician who served in several high offices under Faisal I of Iraq, Abdullah I of Jordan and Hussein of Jordan:*Prime Minister of the Emirate of Transjordan from 18 October 1933 to 28 September 1938...
Events
- 19 April – Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on April 15 in Jaffa.
- 19 April – The beginning of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigrationAliyahAliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...
. - 23 April – With the commencement of the Arab revolt, the British authorities evacuate the Jewish community of HebronHebronHebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
as a precautionary measure to secure its members' safety, thus ending the Jewish presence of Hebron. - 25 April – The Arab Higher CommitteeArab Higher CommitteeThe Arab Higher Committee was the central political organ of the Arab community of Mandate Palestine. It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and comprised the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans under the mufti's...
is established, on the initiative of the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, to oppose Jewish claims in Palestine. - 10 December – The founding of the moshavMoshavMoshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
Tel Amal which was the first of the tower and stockadeTower and stockadeTower and stockade was a settlement method used by Zionist settlers in the British Mandate of Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab revolt, when the establishment of new Jewish settlements was restricted by the Mandatory authorities...
settlement.
Notable births
- 9 April – Ghassan KanafaniGhassan KanafaniGhassan Kanafani was a Palestinian writer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, allegedly by the Mossad.- Early years :Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in 1936 in the then Acre , British Mandate of Palestine...
, Palestinian Arab writer, playwright and a leading member of the militant group PFLPPopular Front for the Liberation of PalestineThe Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...
(d. 1972). - 31 May – Zevulun HammerZevulun HammerZevulun Hammer was an Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.-Biography:Hammer was born in Haifa during the British Mandate of Palestine. He was an active member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement , and served in the Israeli Armored Corps in a Nahal programme...
, Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 19981998 in Israel-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu * President of Israel – Ezer Weizman* Chief of General Staff - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak until July 9, Shaul Mofaz* Government of Israel - 27th Government of Israel-Events:...
). - 14 June – Avraham ShochatAvraham ShochatAvraham Shochat is a former Israeli politician who twice served as Minister of Finance.-Background:Shochat was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era...
, Israeli politician. - 19 July – Nahum StelmachNahum StelmachNahum Stelmach was an Israeli footballer and manager.-Biography:He was chosen third by Yediot Aharonots greatest Israeli footballers. He made a name for himself as the leader of Hapoel Petah Tikva....
, Israeli footballer and manager (d. 19991999 in Israel-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu until July 6, Ehud Barak * President of Israel – Ezer Weizman* Chief of General Staff - Shaul Mofaz...
). - 22 August – Nechama HendelNechama HendelNechama 'Nama' Hendel was an Israeli singer.She began in the IDF Nahal music troupe, and came out of the Tsahal music scene in the 1950s, first in the duet "Ran veNama" – with Ran Eliran – then later as a solo act...
, Israeli singer, actress, guitarist and entertainer (d. 19981998 in Israel-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu * President of Israel – Ezer Weizman* Chief of General Staff - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak until July 9, Shaul Mofaz* Government of Israel - 27th Government of Israel-Events:...
). - 17 November – Dahlia RavikovitchDahlia Ravikovitch-Biography:Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 27, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Russian-born Jewish engineer who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious...
, Israeli poet (d. 20052005 in Israel-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Ariel Sharon * President of Israel – Moshe Katsav* Chief of General Staff – Moshe Ya'alon until June 1, Dan Halutz* Government of Israel – 30th Government of Israel-Events:...
). - 27 November – Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Israeli educator and politician (d. 19941994 in Israel-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Rabin * President of Israel – Ezer Weizman* Chief of General Staff – Ehud Barak* Government of Israel – 25th Government of Israel-Events:...
). - 27 November – Zaid al-RifaiZaid al-RifaiZaid al-Rifai in the city of Safed in Palestine is a former Prime Minister of Jordan.-Biography:He served as Prime Minister of Jordan twice and . His father, Sameer al-Rifai was also an important politician in Jordan and former prime minister...
, former Jordanian Prime Minister. - 19 December – A. B. YehoshuaA. B. YehoshuaAbraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.-Biography:...
, Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. - Full date unknown
- Moshe LeviMoshe LeviLeiutanant General Moshe Levy was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces . He served in this position from 1983–1987...
, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (d. 20082008 in IsraelEvents in the year 2008 in Israel.-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Ehud Olmert * President of Israel – Shimon Peres* Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi* Government of Israel – 31st Government of Israel-Events:...
).
- Moshe Levi
Notable deaths
- 23 September - Meir DizengoffMeir DizengoffMeir Dizengoff was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv.-Biography:Meir Dizengoff was born in 1861 in the village of Akimovici near Orgeyev, Bessarabia. In 1878, his family moved to Kishinev, where he graduated from high school and studied at the polytechnic school...
(b. 1861), Russian (BessarabiaBessarabiaBessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
)-born Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv.