1938 in Mandatory Palestine

1938 in the British Mandate of Palestine

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Events in the year 1938 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

## Incumbents

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* High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope until 1 March; Sir Harold MacMichael
* Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
* Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem until 28 September; Tawfik Abu al-Huda

## Events

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Kibbutz Hanita, built in the Tower and stockade settlement method, 1938

* 4 January – The British government appoints the Woodhead Commission to explore the practicalities of the partition of Palestine.
* 10 January – James Leslie Starkey, a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine who leads the first excavations in Tel Lachish, is killed by a gang of armed Arabs near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron.
* 23 February – The Port of Tel Aviv officially opens, as a competing (Jewish) port to the port in Jaffa, the latter having been crippled by the Arab revolt and general strike since 1936.
* 1 March – Sir Harold MacMichael assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine.
* 21 March – The founding of the kibbutz Hanita
* 13 April – The founding of the moshav Shavei Tzion as part of the tower and stockade settlement scheme.
* 26 June – The founding of the kibbutz Alonim
* 29 June – Shlomo Ben-Yosef executed for ambushing an Arab bus near Safad.[1]
* 6 July – 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa, 79 people were wounded.[2]
* 16 July – 10 Arabs were killed and 29 wounded by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.[2]
* 17 July – The founding of the kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha
* 25 July – The founding of the kibbutz Tel Yitzhak
* 25 July – 39 Arabs were killed and over 60 wounded by a second bomb in the Haifa vegetable market.[2]
* 16 August – Former Jewish policeman Mordechai Schwarcz executed for the murder of an Arab policeman
* 17 August – The founding of the moshav Beit Yehoshua
* 25 August – The founding of the kibbutz Ein HaMifratz
* 26 August – 24 Arabs were killed and 39 wounded by a bomb in the Jaffa vegetable market.[3]
* 30 August – The founding of the kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi
* 2 October – 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine: In the 1938 Tiberias massacre, Arab rioters kill 19 Jews in the city of Tiberias, eleven of whom are children.[4] During the massacre, 70 armed Arabs set fire to Jewish homes and the local synagogue.
* 12 October – The British Government announces sending a further four battalions to Palestine.[5]
* 18 October – British army troops regain control of the old city of Jerusalem, which is occupied by Arab extremists in early October.
* 9 November – A technical British committee, known as the Woodhead Commission, rejected the Peel Commission partition plan mostly on the grounds that it could not be achieved without a large forced transfer of Arabs.[6] It proposed "a modification of partition which, ...seems, subject to certain reservations, to form a satisfactory basis of settlement", if the U.K is prepared to provide a "sufficient assistance to enable the Arab State to balance its budget".[6]
* 16 November – The founding of the moshav Sharona
* 17 November – The founding of the moshav Geulim
* 24 November – The founding of the kibbutz Eilon
* 25 November – The founding of the kibbutz Neve Eitan
* 25 November – The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Ruppin
* 29 November – The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Masaryk
* 22 December – The founding of the kibbutz Mesilot

### Unknown dates

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* The founding of the moshav Sde Warburg
* The founding of the moshav Ramat Hadar

## Notable births

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* 13 January – Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian (died 2019)
* 24 January – Yoram Taharlev, Israeli poet, author, and comedian (died 2022)
* 30 January – Yoram Tsafrir, Israeli archaeologist (died 2015)
* 13 March – Dan Margalit, Israeli journalist
* 3 April – Boaz Moav, Israeli politician, academic, and activist (died 2002)
* 14 April – Rivka Michaeli, Israeli actress
* 20 May – Giora Epstein, Israeli air force officer and fighter ace (died 2025)
* 1 July – Ilana Karaszyk, Israeli Olympic runner, long jumper
* 14 July – Moshe Safdie, Israeli-American architect and urban designer
* 21 July – Ya'akov Ahimeir, Israeli journalist and television and radio personality
* 9 August – Moshe Maya, Israeli rabbi and politician
* 29 August – Amnon Reshef, Israeli general
* 29 August – Ofer Bar-Yosef, Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist
* 3 October – Dan Bar-On, Israeli psychologist (died 2008)
* 29 October – Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-American director of animated and live-action films
* 4 December – Nava Arad, Israeli politician and Member of Knesset (1981–1992, 1995–1996) (died 2022)[7]
* Full date unknown
* Amos Meller, Israeli composer and conductor (died 2007)
* Dan Meyerstein, Israeli chemist and resident of Ariel University
* Naji al-Ali, Palestinian Arab cartoonist (died 1987)
* Ahmed Jibril, Palestinian Arab, founder and leader of the militant group PFLP-GC
* Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian Arab, member of the PLO executive (died 2001)

## Notable deaths

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## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1938 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

1. ^ Marlowe, John (1946) Rebellion in Palestine. The Cresset Press, London. pp. 198,199.
2. ^ a b c Marlowe. p.200
3. ^ Marlowe. p.201
4. ^ "League of Nations Archives". Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
5. ^ Marlowe. p.203
6. ^ a b "Woodhead commission report". 1938.
7. ^ "הלכה לעולמה חברת הכנסת לשעבר נאוה ארד" [Former Member of Knesset Nava Arad has died]. Maariv. 22 February 2022.

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