1935 in Mandatory Palestine

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

Incumbents

Events

According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935.
A split occurred between traditional Zionists and Revisionists, who endorsed the use of violence to establish a Zionist state.
Arab leadership accepted a British proposal for a legislative assembly by the British High Commissioner, but it was rejected by the British House of Commons in 1936.
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.
10 February – Nahariya is founded.
April – Palestine Arab Party established.
2–10 April – 2nd Maccabiah Games are held in Tel Aviv, despite British opposition.
5–6 May – Renowned Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs in the Mugrabi Theater in Tel Aviv, continuing after to Jerusalem and Haifa.
23 June – Reform Party (Mandatory Palestine) established.
16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine.
November – The Arab political parties demanded an end to Jewish immigration and land transfer, as well as the establishment of democratic institutions.
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 (Mandatory Palestine) established.

Births

7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor
18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister, ambassador to the United Nations, and Labor Party Knesset member
19 January – Ilan Amit, Israeli strategist, government adviser, and Mossad analyst
1 February – Ze'ev Almog, Israeli naval officer, former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy and manager of Israel Shipyards.
17 February – Uri Ilan, Israeli soldier who committed suicide in Syrian captivity, national hero in Israel
27 February – Yaakov Turner, Israeli politician, military officer, and police commander, mayor of Beersheba
24 March – Jacob Turkel, Israeli judge, former judge on the Supreme Court of Israel
29 March – Boaz Kofman, Israeli footballer and football manager
2 April – Uriel Lynn, Israeli lawyer and politician
8 April – Avi Primor, Israeli diplomat and publicist
15 June – Shimon Even, Israeli computer scientist
1 July – Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer and actor
5 July – Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and politician
13 July – Dan Almagor, Israeli playwright
9 September – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
30 October – Avraham Stern, Israeli politician
1 November – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist
4 November – Uri Zohar, former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.
15 November – Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority
24 November – Shlomo Amar, Israeli politician
15 December – Adnan Badran, former Jordanian Prime Minister
24 December – Arnon Soffer, Israeli demographerFull date unknown
* Said Aburish, Palestinian Arab journalist and writer.
* Imil Jarjoui, Palestinian Arab politician.
* Avigdor Nebenzahl, Israeli rabbi and posek
* Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and settlement activist.
* Eitan Tchernov, Israeli conservationist.
* David Ussishkin, Israeli archaeologist.

Deaths

9 June – Shmaryahu Levin, Russian -born rabbi and Zionist activist.
1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook, Russian -born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
20 November – Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, 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.