1919 in British-administered Palestine

Events in the year 1919 in British-administered Palestine.

Events

• 3 January - The signing of the Faisal Weizmann Agreement by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
• 26 February - The first official meeting of the Zionist General Council.

Notable births

• 8 May - Aharon Remez, Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and second commander of the Israeli Air Force (d. 1994).
• 10 June - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Arab physician, and later politician (d. 2007).
• 2 August - Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem-born American Jewish film and television actor, and later painter.
• Full date unknown
  • Binyamin Gibli, head of Israeli military intelligence (d. 2008).
  • Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Palestinian Arab poet. (d. 1994).

Notable deaths

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