1932 in Mandatory Palestine
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Events in the year 1932 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
Events
- 28 March â The 1932 Maccabiah Games, the first Maccabiah Games ever held, are opened in Tel Aviv.[2]
- 13 August â The Independence Party (Mandatory Palestine) is established.[3]
- 1 December â The Palestine Post (now The Jerusalem Post) is published for the first time.[4]
Unknown dates
- The founding of kibbutz Afikim by Russian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.[5]
- The founding of the moshav Tel-Tzur by the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium teachers led by Haim Boger. The moshav was later on merged with Even Yehuda.[6]
- The founding of the moshav Beer Ganim by former employees of the Dead Sea Works company. The moshav was later on merged with Even Yehuda.[6]
- The founding of the moshav Ramat Tyomkin. The moshav merged with Netanya in 1948.[7]
- The founding of the moshav Neta'im by residents of other moshavim as part of the Settlement of the Thousand plan.[8]
- The founding of the moshava Even Yehuda by the "Bne Binyamin" association on the lands acquired by the philanthropist Samuel S. Bloom.[6]
Notable births
- 12 January â Itzik Kol, Israeli film producer (died 2007).
- 13 January â Shafiq al-Hout, Palestinian Arab politician and writer, co-founder of the PLO (died 2009).
- 1 February â Batsheva Kanievsky, Israeli rebbetzin (died 2011).
- 10 February â Yosef Ba-Gad, Israeli politician and Rosh yeshiva.
- 22 February â Zvi Ofer, Israeli soldier, former military governor of Nablus (died 1968).
- 22 March â Nehemia Sirkis, Israeli sports shooter and firearms designer.
- 2 May â Ariel Weinstein, Israeli politician and journalist (died 1996).
- 9 July â Amitzur Shapira, Israeli athletics coach, murdered at the Munich Olympics (died 1972).
- 25 July â Esther Streit-Wurzel, Israeli children's author and educator (died 2013).
- 21 August â Menashe Kadishman, Israeli painter and sculptor (died 2015).
- 28 August â Yakir Aharonov, Israeli physicist.
- 9 October â Dvora Omer, Israeli author (died 2013).
- 31 October â Ruth Rasnic, Israeli social and political activist.
- 5 November â Yossi Banai, Israeli performer, singer, actor, and dramatist (died 2006).
- 13 November - Nahum Rakover, Israeli jurist.
- 19 November â Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Israeli-Arab judge, first Arab to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2014).
- 20 November - Yona Fischer, Israeli art curator (died 2022).
- 23 December â Avraham Sharir, Israeli politician (died 2017).
- Full date unknown
- Eli Hurvitz, Israeli industrialist, former chairman and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (died 2011).