1932 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Abdallah Sarraj

Events

• 23 January – The founding of Kfar Yona.
• 28 March – The 1932 Maccabiah Games, the first Maccabiah Games ever held, are opened in Tel Aviv.
• 13 August – The Independence Party (Mandatory Palestine) is established.
• 1 December – The Palestine Post is published for the first time.

Unknown dates

• The founding of kibbutz Afikim by Russian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
• 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.
• 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.
• The founding of the moshav Ramat Tyomkin. The moshav merged with Netanya in 1948.
• The founding of the moshav Neta'im by residents of other moshavim as part of the Settlement of the Thousand plan.
• The founding of the moshava Even Yehuda by the "Bne Binyamin" association on the lands acquired by the philanthropist Samuel S. Bloom.

Notable births

• 12 January – Itzik Kol, Israeli film producer.
• 13 January – Shafiq al-Hout, Palestinian Arab politician and writer, co-founder of the PLO.
• 1 February – Batsheva Kanievsky, Israeli rebbetzin.
• 10 February – Yosef Ba-Gad, Israeli politician and Rosh yeshiva.
• 22 February – Zvi Ofer, Israeli soldier, former military governor of Nablus.
• 22 March – Nehemia Sirkis, Israeli sports shooter and firearms designer.
• 2 May – Ariel Weinstein, Israeli politician and journalist.
• 9 July – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli athletics coach, murdered at the Munich Olympics.
• 25 July – Esther Streit-Wurzel, Israeli children's author and educator.
• 21 August – Menashe Kadishman, Israeli painter and sculptor.
• 28 August – Yakir Aharonov, Israeli physicist.
• 9 October – Dvora Omer, Israeli author.
• 31 October – Ruth Rasnic, Israeli social and political activist.
• 5 November – Yossi Banai, Israeli performer, singer, actor, and dramatist.
• 13 November - Nahum Rakover, Israeli jurist.
• 19 November – Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Israeli-Arab judge, first Arab to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel.
• 20 November - Yona Fischer, Israeli art curator.
• 23 December – Avraham Sharir, Israeli politician.Full date unknown
• * Eli Hurvitz, Israeli industrialist, former chairman and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.