1935 in Mandatory Palestine

1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1935 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1935

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

• According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935.^[1]
• 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.
• April - Palestine Arab Party established.
• 5-6 May - Renowned Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs in the Mugrabi Theater in Tel Aviv, continuing after to Jerusalem and Haifa.
• 23 June - Reform Party (Palestine) established.
• 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.

Unknown dates

• National Bloc (Palestine) established.

Notable births

Hussein of Jordan

• 7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor
• 18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli former minister and Labor Party Knesset member (died 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 (died 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 (died 1999)
• 15 December – Adnan Badran, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• Full date unknown
  • Said Aburish, Palestinian Arab journalist and writer.
  • Imil Jarjoui, Palestinian Arab politician (died 2007).

Notable deaths

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• 1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook (born 1865), Russian (Latvia)-born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
• 20 November - Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (born 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. He was based in Haifa and president of the Young Men's Muslim Association there.^[2]

References

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