1920 in British-administered Palestine

Events in the year 1920 in British-administered Palestine (British-controlled part of OETA territory).

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Incumbents

High Commissioner â Sir Herbert Louis Samuel from 1 July

Events

February

24 February â The Conference of London ends with agreement among Britain, France and Italy on partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.^{[citation needed]}

March

1 March â Zionist activist Joseph Trumpeldor and five Palestinian Jewish fighters are killed in the battle of Tel Hai. The battle, which gave Tel Hai its long-enduring fame, was significant far beyond the small number of fighters involved on either side â mainly due to its influence on Zionist history, both inspiring an enduring heroic myth and profoundly influencing Zionist military and political strategies over several decades.^{[citation needed]}

April

4â7 April â Nebi Musa Riots in and around the Old City of Jerusalem mark the first large-scale skirmish of the ArabâIsraeli conflict. Four Arabs and five Jews are killed, while 216 Jews (18 critically) and 23 Arabs (one critically) are wounded. The majority of the victims were members of the old Yishuv, largely non-Zionist or anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews. About 300 Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem are evacuated.^[1]
19 April â First Assembly of Jewish Representatives elected.^{[citation needed]}
26 April â The San Remo conference ends, during which the Allied Supreme Council agree to allocate the mandate of Palestine to the United Kingdom, incorporating the terms set forth in the Balfour Declaration.^{[citation needed]}

May

31 May â Second Palestine Arab Congress, held in secret because banned by British authorities.^{[citation needed]}
12 June â Following the Battle of Tel Hai, the Jewish leadership in Palestine establishes the Jewish paramilitary organisation "Haganah" to protect Jewish farms and kibbutzim, believing that the Jewish population in Palestine could not rely on the British administration for protection from the frequent attacks carried out by local Arab gangs against Palestinian Jews.^{[citation needed]}

June

30 June â Two Arabs shot dead by British troops during demonstrations in Jaffa following the landing of new Jewish immigrants.^[2]

July

1 July â
- Sir Herbert Louis Samuel is appointed the first British High Commissioner of Palestine.^{[citation needed]}
- Completion of the Palin Report on the 1920 Nebi Musa riots.^{[citation needed]}
13â14 July â The Muslim-Christian Associations hold a two-day general strike protesting against the mandate and the behaviour of the British army.^[3]

August

7 August â Sir Herbert Louis Samuel's request to extend the frontier of British territory beyond the Jordan River and to bring Transjordan under his administrative control is rejected. The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, proposed instead that British influence in Transjordan should be advanced by sending a few political officers, without military escort, to encourage self-government and give advice to local leaders in the territory.^[4]
10 August â The Treaty of SÃ¨vres endorses the allocation to the United Kingdom of a mandate of Palestine. The treaty is stillborn and subsequently superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne.^{[citation needed]}

September

The founding of the kibbutz Degania Bet by immigrants from the Second Aliyah.^{[citation needed]}

October

7 October - The establishment of the Jewish National Council, the main national institution of the Jewish community (Yishuv) within the British Mandate of Palestine.^{[citation needed]}

December

4 December â Third Palestine Arab Congress held in Haifa.^{[citation needed]}
6 December â The Histadrut is established in Haifa to look after the interests of Jewish workers.^{[citation needed]}
23 December â The United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-controlled Syria and British-controlled Palestine.^{[citation needed]}

Notable births

19 January â Mordechai Maklef, Israeli general, 3rd IDF Chief of General Staff (died 1978).
1 June â Amos Yarkoni, Israeli Bedouin senior IDF officer (died 1991).
12 June â Ephraim Evron, Israeli diplomat (died 1995).

Full date unknown
- Matanya Abramson, Israeli sculptor (died 2004).
- Michael Gross, Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist (died 2004).
- Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian Arab businessman (died 2010).
- Serene Husseini Shahid, Palestinian writer and teacher.(died 2008)^[5]

Notable deaths

1 March â Joseph Trumpeldor (born 1880), Russian-born early Zionist activist.