1935 in Mandatory Palestine

1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1935 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1935

Events in the year 1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

• High Commissioner - Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan - Ibrahim Hashem

Events

• According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935.^[1]
• 4 January – The British open the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline, a major oil pipeline between the Mosul oil fields in Iraq and the Mediterranean port of Haifa in Palestine.
• April - Palestine Arab Party established.
• 23 June - Reform Party (Palestine) established.
• 16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine.
• 20 November – Sheikh Muhammad Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Sunni Islamic preacher and leader of the armed organization Black Hand which used violence against Jewish civilians and the British, is killed in a gunbattle with British police forces near Jenin.

Unknown dates

• National Bloc (Palestine) established.

Notable births

Hussein of Jordan

• 7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor
• 18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli former minister and Labor Party Knesset member (died 2007)
• 26 March – Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority.
• 13 July – Dan Almagor, Israeli playwright
• 9 September – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
• 1 November – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist (died 2003)
• 4 November – Uri Zohar, former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.
• 14 November – Hussein of Jordan, the King of Jordan between 1952-1999 (died 1999)
• 15 December – Adnan Badran, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• Full date unknown
  • Said Aburish, Palestinian Arab journalist and writer.
  • Imil Jarjoui, Palestinian Arab politician (died 2007).

Notable deaths

• 1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook (born 1865), Russian (Latvia)-born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
• 20 November - Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (born 1882), Syrian-born Palestinian Muslim cleric who founded and headed the militant Black Hand movement and a number of other extreme anti-Jewish and anti-British groups. He was based in Haifa and president of the Young Men's Muslim Association there.^[2]

References

1. O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1986) The Siege. The Story of Israel and Zionism. 1988 Paladin Edition. ISBN 0-586-08645-5. p.202
2. O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1986) The Siege. The Story of Israel and Zionism. 1988 Paladin Edition. ISBN 0-586-08645-5. p.209