1941 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1941 in the British Mandate of 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