1921 in Mandatory Palestine
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Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
- High Commissioner â Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
- Emir of Transjordan â Abdullah I bin al-Hussein from 11 April
- Prime Minister of Transjordan â Rashid Taliâa from 11 April until 15 August; Mazhar Raslan
Events
March
- 12 March â Start of Cairo Conference which agrees that the administration of Transjordan should be separated from that of Palestine.
April
- 11 April â The establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan.
May
- 1-7 May â Jaffa riots: Riots in Jaffa result in the death of 47 Jews (including the author Yosef Haim Brenner) and 48 Arabs.
June
- 25 June â Fourth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem.
October
- October â The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry publishes its findings on the Jaffa riots of the previous year.
Unknown dates
- 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 Ir Ganim (Today Ramat Gan).
Notable births
- 1 January â Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar (died 1986)[1]
- 6 January â Haim Corfu, Israeli politician (died 2015)
- 16 January â Shmuel Toledano, Israeli politician and Mossad officer (died 2022)
- 17 January â Dan Tolkowsky, Israeli military officer, commander of the Israeli Air Force, and venture capitalist (died 2025)
- 17 January â Modi Alon, Israeli fighter pilot who commanded Israel's first fighter squadron, scored the first aerial victory of the Israeli Air Force (died 1948)
- 17 March â Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general, and intelligence officer (died 2009)
- 18 March â Joseph Tabenkin, Israeli military commander (died 1987)
- 21 March â Amin al-Majaj, Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem (died 1999)[2]
- 1 April â Arieh Elias, Israeli actor (died 2015)
- 9 April â Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel (died 2015)
- 26 August â Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (died 1994)
- 15 September â Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure (died 2004)
- 21 September â Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israeli military intelligence officer and Professor of International Relations (died 1994)
- 18 November â Baruch Ben Haim, Sephardic rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn for 55 years (died 2005)
- 2 October â Yisrael Peled, Israeli politician, second Mayor of Ramat Gan (died 2016)
Full date unknown
- Burhan Dajani, Palestinian academic and economist (died 2000)[3]
- Wajih Al Madani, Palestinian military commander (died 1991)[4]
- Amos Hakham, Israeli Bible scholar (died 2012)
Notable deaths
- 31 March â Kamil al-Husayni, Palestinian religious leader and grand Mufti of Jerusalem.(Born 1867)[5]
- 2 May â Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature
- 5 May â Avshalom Gissin (born 1896), Zionist activist and Ottoman Army veteran killed defending Petah Tikva during the 1921 Palestine riots