1922 in Mandatory Palestine
| 1922 in the British Mandate of Palestine | |||||
|
|||||
| |||||
Events in the year 1922 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Incumbents
- High Commissioner - Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
- Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - Mazhar Raslan until 10 March; 'Ali Rida Basha al-Rikabi
Events
- 2 April - The founding of the agricultural settlement Giv'atayim by a group of 22 Second Aliyah pioneers led by David Schneiderman.
- 2 April - The founding of the agricultural settlement "Ahuza A – New York" (which was later renamed Ra'anana), named after the founding company.
- 3 June - The Churchill White Paper ts published endorsing the Balfour Declaration.
- 24 July - The Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument for the administration of Palestine, is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations.
- 22 August - Fifth Palestine Arab Congress held in Nablus.
- 4 November - The founding of the kibbutz Beit Alfa by Hashomer Hatzair volunteers.
- 5 December - The Jewish Agency for Israel is established.
Notable births
- 28 January - Emile Habibi, Israeli Arab writer and politician (died 1996).
- 24 February - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (died 2006).
- 1 March - Yitzhak Rabin, Fifth Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated in 1995).
- 11 May - Tawfik Toubi, Israeli Arab communist politician (died 2011).
Notable deaths
- 16 December - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born 1858), Russian (Belarus)-born Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor, the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.
References
| ||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.