1925 in Mandatory Palestine
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Events in the year 1925 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
Events
- 6 February â The official opening ceremony of the Technion â Israel Institute of Technology.
- 1 April â The Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus on Mount Scopus is opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel.
- 1 May â The founding of the kibbutz Givat HaShlosha by group of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
- 1 June â The first edition of the Hebrew-language daily newspaper "Davar" is published under the name Davar â Iton Poalei Eretz Yisrael (lit. Davar â Newspaper of Eretz Yisrael Workers).
- 1 August â The Palestinian Citizenship Order goes into effect granting Palestinian citizenship to previously Ottoman subjects "Habitually resident in the territory of Palestine"[1]
- 6 December â Second Assembly of Jewish Representatives elected.
Unknown dates
- The founding of the moshav Ramatayim, one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon.
Notable births
- 6 January â Uzi Narkiss, Israeli general (died 1997)
- 29 January â Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (died 2018)
- 10 March â Mordechai Alkahi, Irgun member and one of the Olei Hagardom (died 1947)
- 9 April â Kamal Nasser, Palestinian Arab politician, PLO leader, writer and poet (died 1973)
- 14 May â Yuval Ne'eman, Israeli physicist, politician, and President of Tel Aviv University (died 2006)
- 25 May â Moshe Gidron, Israeli military officer, major general in the IDF (died 2009)
- 7 June â Reuven Shefer, Israeli actor (died 2011)
- 16 July âWalid Khalidi, Palestinian Arab historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus (died 2026)[2]
- 24 August â Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht, Israeli rabbi, founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (died 1995)
- 25 August â Yeshayahu Gavish, Israeli general (died 2024)
- 2 November â Aryeh Nehemkin, Israeli politician (died 2021)
- 29 November â Zvi Zibel, Israeli soldier, posthumous recipient of the Hero of Israel award (died 1948)
- 1 December â Dov Levin, Israeli jurist, judge on the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2001)
- 24 December â Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli singer (died 2012)
- 25 December â Geulah Cohen, former Israeli politician and journalist (died 2019)[3]
- 25 December â Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian (died 2014)
- Full date unknown
- Shlomo Moussaieff, Israeli jeweler (died 2015)
- Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach, Israeli rabbi (died 2008)
- ThurayyÄ Malḥas,Palestinian poet (died 2013)[4]