1921 in Mandatory Palestine

Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

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.

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.

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).

2 May - Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature

Years in Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)
1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1930s	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1920s	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
British-administered Palestine (pre-Mandate)	1918 1919 1920

1921 in Asia
Sovereign states	Afghanistan Bhutan Ceylon China Egypt Japan Nepal Oman Ottoman Empire Persia Philippines Russia Siam Sikkim Transjordan North Yemen
States with limited recognition	Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Tibet
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Bahrain British India British Malaya Brunei Cyprus Dutch East Indies French India French Indochina Kuwait Mandatory Iraq Mandatory Palestine Taiwan

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