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

• 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.
• 16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine.
• 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.

Notable births

• 7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor.
• 18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli former minister and Labor Party Knesset member (d. 2007).
• 26 March – Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority.
• 13 July – Dan Almagor, Israeli playwright.
• 9 September – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor.
• 1 November – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist (d. 2003).
• 4 November – Uri Zohar, former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.
• 14 November – Hussein of Jordan, the King of Jordan between 1952-1999 (d. 1999).
• 15 December – Adnan Badran, former Jordanian Prime Minister.
• Full date unknown
  • Said Aburish, Palestinian Arab journalist and writer.
  • Imil Jarjoui, Palestinian Arab politician (d. 2007).

Notable deaths

• 1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook (b. 1865), Russian (Latvia)-born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
• 20 November - Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (b. 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.