1921 in Mandatory Palestine
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Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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.
- May - 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, former Israeli politician
- 17 March - Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general (died 2009)
- 9 April - Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel
- 26 August - Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (died 1994)
- 15 September - Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure (died 2004).
Notable deaths
- 2 May - Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature
References
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