5 January – The founding of the kibbutz
Sde Nahum by members of the Sadeh group from the
Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as Jewish immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland.
7 July – The
Peel Commission publishes a report that recommends the end of the
Palestine mandate and its partition into separate Arab and Jewish states.
13 September – The founding of the kibbutz
Kfar Szold
26 September – The British District Commissioner for the Galilee
Lewis Yelland Andrews is assassinated in
Nazareth by a gang of armed Arabs. His assassination was considered to represent the apex of the great
Arab revolt in Palestine. Andrews's murder causes Britain to respond by outlawing the
Arab Higher Committee.
1 October – Following the assassination of the British District Commissioner for the Galilee, the British authorities ban all Arab nationalist political organisations and arrests members of the
Arab Higher Committee. Four of whom are deported to the
Seychelles.
Haj Amin al-Husseini and
Jamal al-Husseini avoid arrest and leave the country.
14 April –
Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman (died 2013)
May –
Abu Nidal, Palestinian Arab, founder of Fatah – The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group, commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (died 2002)
28 June –
Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian Arab, co-founder and leader of
Hamas (died 2004)
30 June –
Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (died 2012)
11 July –
Adin Steinsaltz, Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2020)