Events
- 24 April - The football team "Hapoel Haifa" is established, the first football team to belong to the "Hapoel" sport association.
- 17 October - The HaNoar HaOved ("The Working Youth") movement is founded by Palestinian Jewish youth working to defend their rights. The name of the movement was changed in 1959 to "HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed" ("The Working and Studying Youth").
- 13 December - The founding of Herzliya, initially a semi-cooperative farming community (moshava), near the central Mediterranean coast of the country.
Unknown dates
- Collective Responsibility Ordenance issued giving powers of collective punishment in rural areas. Introduced to combat feuding between communities. The powers included application of fines and demolition of houses.[1]
- The founding of the moshav Magdiel, one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon.
- The founding of the agricultural settlement Bnei Brak by Rabbi Yitzchok Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish chasidim.
Notable births
- 11 January - Yehuda Perah, Israeli politician (died 1998).
- 24 January - Rabbi Hayim David HaLevi, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv (died 1998).
- 24 February - Ted Arison, Israeli-American businessman (died 1999).
- 29 March - Amnon Linn, Israeli politician (died 2016).
- 15 June - Ezer Weizman, Israeli Air Force commander and seventh President of Israel (died 2005).
- 30 June - Amos Horev, Israeli general and President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 31 July - Ben Zion Abba Shaul, Israeli Sephardic rabbi, Torah scholar, and Rosh Yeshiva (died 1998).
- 21 August - Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician (died 2013).
- 13 September - Israel Tal, Israeli general (died 2010).
- 15 September - Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli military officer and politician (died 2017).
- 30 November - Pnina Bor, Israeli B'nai B'rith official, President of B'nai B'rith in Israel and Vice-President and Supervisor of the B'nai B'rith World Organization (died 2009).
- 17 December - Yohai Ben-Nun, sixth commander of the Israeli Navy (died 1994).
- 25 December - Yosef Avni, Irgun fighter
- Full date unknown
References
- ↑ Shepherd, Naomi (1999) Ploughing Sand. British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948. John Murray.
ISBN 0-7195-5707 0. p.197