1922 in Mandatory Palestine
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Events in the year 1922 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
Events
January
- 9 January â Haj Amin al-Husseini, who had become the Mufti of Jerusalem the previous year, is elected head of the Muslim community (Rais al-'Ulama').[1]
April
- 2 April â
- The founding of the agricultural settlement Giv'atayim by a group of 22 Second Aliyah pioneers led by David Schneiderman.
- The founding of the agricultural settlement "Ahuza A â New York" (now Ra'anana), named after the founding company.
June
- 3 June â The Churchill White Paper is published endorsing the Balfour Declaration but weakening the plans for a Jewish homeland.
July
- 24 July â The Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument for the administration of Palestine, is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations.[2]
August
- 22 August â Fifth Palestine Arab Congress held in Nablus.[3]
November
- 4 November â The founding of the kibbutz Beit Alfa by Hashomer Hatzair volunteers.
December
- 5 December â The Jewish Agency for Israel is established.
Full date unknown
- The Industrial Islamic orphanage school is established in the old city of Jerusalem.[4]
Births
- 28 January â Emile Habibi, Israeli Arab writer and politician (died 1996).
- 10 February â Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, Jewish Lehi activist known for his part in the assassination of Lord Moyne (died 1945).
- 24 February â Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (died 2006).
- 1 March â Yitzhak Rabin, Fifth Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1995).
- 12 March â Aviva Uri, Israeli painter (died 1989).
- 11 May â Tawfik Toubi, Israeli Arab communist politician (died 2011).
- 21 May â Moshe Amar, Israeli politician (died 2015).
- 17 June â Avigdor Levontin, Israeli lawyer and diplomat (died 2016).
- 22 June â Yehoshua Cohen, Israeli Lehi veteran, assassin of Folke Bernadotte (died 1986).
- 5 July â Menachem Cohen, Israeli politician (died 1975).
- 25 August â Ivry Gitlis, Israeli virtuoso violinist (died 2020).
- 9 October â Asaf Simhoni, Israeli general (died 1956).
- 1 December â Amichai Paglin, Israeli businessman and Irgun chief of operations (died 1978).
Deaths
- 22 February â A. D. Gordon (born 1856), Russian (Ukraine)-born Zionist activist, founder of Hapoel Hatzair.
- 16 December â Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born 1858), Russian (Belarus)-born Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor, the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.