1921 in Mandatory Palestine

1921 in British-administered Palestine

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Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

## Incumbents

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* High Commissioner – Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
* Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein from 11 April
* Prime Minister of Transjordan – Rashid Tali’a from 11 April until 15 August; Mazhar Raslan

## Events

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### March

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* 12 March – Start of Cairo Conference which agrees that the administration of Transjordan should be separated from that of Palestine.

### April

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* 11 April – The establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan, which continues to remain part of the British Mandate of Palestine.

### May

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* 1-7 May – Jaffa riots: Riots in Jaffa result in the death of 47 Jews (including the author Yosef Haim Brenner) and 48 Arabs.

### June

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* 25 June – Fourth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem.

### October

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* October – The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry publishes its findings on the Jaffa Riots of the previous year.

### Unknown dates

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* The founding of the Hebrew Writers Association in the Land of Israel by Hayim Nahman Bialik.
* The founding of the kibbutz Tel Yosef by members of Gdud HaAvoda, named after Joseph Trumpeldor.
* The founding of the kibbutz Ein Harod by pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
* The founding of the moshav Nahalal by pioneers of the Second Aliyah and Third Aliyah.
* The founding of the moshava Ramat Gan.

## Notable births

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* 6 January – Haim Corfu, Israeli politician (died 2015)
* 16 January – Shmuel Toledano, Israeli politician and Mossad officer (died 2022)
* 17 January – Dan Tolkowsky, Israeli military officer, commander of the Israeli Air Force, and venture capitalist
* 17 January – Modi Alon, Israeli fighter pilot who commanded Israel's first fighter squadron, scored the first aerial victory of the Israeli Air Force (died 1948)
* 17 March – Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general, and intelligence officer (died 2009)
* 18 March – Joseph Tabenkin, Israeli military commander (died 1987)
* 9 April – Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel (died 2015)
* 26 August – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (died 1994)
* 15 September – Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure (died 2004).
* 21 September – Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israeli military intelligence officer and Professor of International Relations (died 1994).
* 18 November – Baruch Ben Haim, Sephardic rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn for 55 years (died 2005).
* 2 October – Yisrael Peled, Israeli politician, second Mayor of Ramat Gan (died 2016).
* Full date unknown
* Amos Hakham, Israeli Bible scholar (died 2012).

## Notable deaths

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* 2 May – Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature
* 5 May – Avshalom Gissin (born 1896), Zionist activist and Ottoman Army veteran killed defending Petah Tikva during the 1921 Palestine riots

## References

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Years in Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)

1940s|

* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948

1930s|

* 1930
* 1931
* 1932
* 1933
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939

1920s|

* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929

British-administered
Palestine (pre-Mandate)|

* 1918
* 1919
* 1920

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1921 in Asia

Sovereign states|

* Afghanistan
*   *   *   *   * Bhutan
*   *   *   *   * Ceylon
* China
*   *   * Egypt
*   *   *   *   *   *   * Japan
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Nepal
* Oman
* Ottoman Empire
*   *   *   * Persia
* Philippines
*   * Russia
*   * Siam
* Sikkim
*   *   *   *   *   *   * Transjordan
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * North Yemen

States with limited
recognition

*   * Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
*   *   * Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Tibet
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Dependencies, colonies
and other territories

* Bahrain
* British India
*   * British Malaya
* Brunei
*   *   *   * Cyprus
* Dutch East Indies
* French India
* French Indochina
*   * Kuwait
*   * Mandatory Iraq
* Mandatory Palestine
*   * Taiwan

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