1936 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem

Events

• 11 February - The founding of the moshav Rishpon.
• 15 April - The Anabta shooting, where remnants of a Qassamite band stopped a convoy on the road from Nablus to Tulkarm near Jaffa, robbed its passengers and, stating that they were acting to revenge the death of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, shot 3 Jewish passengers, two fatally, after ascertaining their identity.
• 16 April - two Arab workers sleeping in a hut in a banana plantation beside the highway between Petah Tikva and Yarkona were assassinated in retaliation by members of the Haganah-Bet.
• 19 April – Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on 15 April in Jaffa and calls for a general strike begin in Nablus, marking the beginning of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against British rule and mass Jewish immigration.
• 21 April - The leaders of the five main parties accept the decision at Nablus and call for a general strike of all Arabs engaged in labour, transport and shopkeeping.
• 23 April – With the commencement of the Arab revolt, the British authorities evacuate the Jewish community of Hebron as a precautionary measure to secure its members' safety, thus ending the Jewish presence of Hebron.
• 25 April – The Arab Higher Committee is established on the initiative of the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, to oppose British rule and Jewish claims in Palestine.
• 16 May - Amin al-Husseini, president of the Arab Higher Committee and Mufti of Jerusalem, declares 16 May as 'Palestine Day' and officially calls for a general strike, which lasts until October of 1936.
• 18 May - Announcement of the Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed to investigate the causes of unrest in British Mandatory Palestine.
• 02 June - An attempt by rebels to derail a train bringing the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from Egypt led to the railways being put under guard, placing a great strain on the security forces at Nablus.
• 04 June - In response to the situation two days prior in Nablus, the government rounds up a large number of Palestinian leaders and sends them to a detention camp at Auja al-Hafir in the Negev desert.
• 21 June - The Battle of Nur Shams marks an escalation with the largest engagement of British troops against Arab militants so far in the revolt.
• 29 July - Members of the Peel Commission are officially appointed as follows: Chairman William Peel, 1st Earl Peel and the Vice-Chairman was Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet. The other members include Sir Laurie Hammond, Sir Morris Carter, Sir Harold Morris, and Reginald Coupland.
• 22 August - Anglo-Jewish Arabist scholar Levi Billig of Hebrew University is murdered at his home outside Jerusalem by an Arab assassin.
• 07 September - Statement of Policy issued by the Colonial Office in London declares the situation a "direct challenge to the authority of the British Government in Palestine" and announces the appointment of Lieutenant-General John Dill as supreme military commander.
• 11 October - The general strike is called off, marking the beginning of a break in hostilities which ensues for about a year while the Peel Commission deliberates.
• 11 November - Peel Commission officially arrives in British Mandatory Palestine.
• 7 December - The founding of the Moshav shitufi Kfar Hittim, the first of the tower and stockade settlement.
• 10 December - The founding of the kibbutz Tel Amal.

Births

• 1 January – Ofira Navon, Israeli psychologist and wife of President Yitzhak Navon (died 1993)
• 8 March – Ram Oren, Israeli author
• 19 March – Uri Aviram, Israeli professor of social work
• 23 March – Israel Eliraz, Israeli poet (died 2016)
• 9 April – Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian Arab writer, playwright and a leading member of the militant group PFLP (died 1972)
• 17 April – Daniel Friedmann, Israeli law professor and politician
• 18 April – Moshe Levi, Israeli general, 12th IDF Chief of General Staff (died 2008)
• 15 May – Ruth Almog, Israeli novelist
• 31 May – Zevulun Hammer, Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister (died 1998)
• 14 June – Avraham Shochat, Israeli politician
• 20 June – Amiram Barkai, Israeli biochemist (died 2014)
• 19 July – Nahum Stelmach, Israeli footballer and manager (died 1999)
• 19 July – Ran Ronen-Pekker, Israeli Air Force general and ace (died 2016)
• 31 July – Uzi Yairi, Israeli special forces officer, commander of the Sayeret Matkal commando unit (died 1975)
• 22 August – Nechama Hendel, Israeli singer, actress, guitarist and entertainer (died 1998)
• 4 September – Judea Pearl, Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher
• 11 September – Moshe Gershuni, Israeli painter and sculptor (died 2017)
• 7 October – Moshe Abeles, Israeli neuroscientist
• 16 October – David Glass, Israeli civil servant and politician (died 2014)
• 28 October - Joram Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician (died 2012)
• 5 November – Amos Yudan, Israeli businessman
• 17 November – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died 2005)
• 27 November – Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Israeli educator and politician (died 1994)
• 27 November – Shlomo Aronson, Israeli landscape architect (died 2018)
• 27 November – Zaid al-Rifai, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• 3 December – Adam Zertal, Israeli archaeologist (died 2015)
• 19 December – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (died 2022)
• 25 December – Masha Lubelsky, Israeli politician
• Full date unknown
  • Yoram Dinstein, Israeli legal scholar, law professor, and diplomat
  • Dov Tamari, Israeli general

Deaths

• 23 September - Meir Dizengoff (born 1861), Russian (Bessarabia)-born Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv

References

References

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4. Sykes, Christopher (1965) ''Cross Roads to Israel: Palestine from Balfour to Bevin.'' New English Library Edition (pb) 1967. Page 160.
5. Morris, 1999, p. 136.
6. Peel Commission Report Cmd. 5479, 1937, p. 96.
7. Horne, Edward (2003). ''A Job Well Done: A History of the Palestine Police Force, 1920–1948''. Book Guild. {{ISBN. 978-1-85776-758-2
8. "Troops Amhushed on Road, Heaviest Engagement of Palestine Revolt Follows (p. 9)". ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]''. 22 June 1936.
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