1941 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1941 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1941

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

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• 15 May – The Palmach is established. ^[1]
• 14 July – World War II: The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (also known as the "Convention of 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]
• 2 November – The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established. ^[3]

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 (died 2022)
• 13 March – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Arab poet and writer of prose (died 2008)
• 1 April – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist (died 2012)
• 1 April – Michael Dezer, Israeli-American real estate developer
• 5 April – Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, Israeli rabbi and Rishon LeTzion (died 2020)
• 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 (died 2009)
• 13 June – Esther Ofarim, Israeli folk singer
• 7 July – Yisrael Poliakov, Israeli singer, actor and entertainer (died 2007)
• 13 July – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality (died 2005)
• 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 (died 2022)
• 5 September – Eitan Avitsur – Israeli composer and conductor
• Full date unknown
  • Ze'ev Herzog – Israeli archaeologist

Deaths

• 20 May – David Raziel (born 1910), Russian-born Palestinian Jew, fighter of the Jewish underground and one of the founders of the Irgun
• 2 October – Menachem Ussishkin (born 1863), Russian-born Palestinian Jew, notable Zionist leader and chairman of the Jewish National Fund

References

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