1936 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1936 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
Events
Arab revolt in Palestine: A photograph of Palestinian guerillas, c. 1936
- 19 April – Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on 15 April in Jaffa.[1]
- 19 April – The call for a general strike in Nablus marks the beginning of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration.[2]
- 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.
- 10 December – The founding of the moshav Tel Amal which was the first of the tower and stockade settlement.
Unknown dates
- The founding of the moshav Kfar Hittim
- The founding of the moshav Rishpon
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
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- Sykes, Christopher (1965) Cross Roads to Israel: Palestine from Balfour to Bevin. New English Library Edition (pb) 1967. Page 160.
- Morris, 1999, p. 136.
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