1941 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Tawfik Abu al-Huda

Events

• 15 May – The Palmach is established.
• 14 July – World War II: The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre is signed on at the "Sidney Smith Barracks" on the outskirts of the city of Acre, ending the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon.
• 2 November – The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established.

Births

• 24 January – Dan Shechtman, Israeli physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 25 January – Ya'akov Shefi, Israeli politician
• 11 February – Avraham Hirschson, Israeli politician
• 13 March – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Arab poet and writer of prose
• 1 April – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist
• 1 April – Michael Dezer, Israeli-American real estate developer
• 5 April – Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, Israeli rabbi and Rishon LeTzion
• 8 April – Ya'akov Shahar, Israeli businessman
• 20 April – Ayala Procaccia, Israeli jurist, judge on the Israeli Supreme Court
• 22 April – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner
• 13 June – Esther Ofarim, Israeli folk singer
• 7 July – Yisrael Poliakov, Israeli singer, actor and entertainer
• 13 July – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality
• 19 August – Gabriela Shalev, Israeli jurist and diplomat
• 10 October – Hanan Goldblatt, Israeli actor
• 24 November – Joel Moses, Israeli-American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 5 September – Eitan Avitsur – Israeli composer and conductor
• Full date unknown
• *Ze'ev Herzog – Israeli archaeologist

Deaths

• 20 May – David Raziel, Russian-born Palestinian Jew, fighter of the Jewish underground and one of the founders of the Irgun
• 2 October – Menachem Ussishkin, Russian-born Palestinian Jew, notable Zionist leader and chairman of the Jewish National Fund