1921 in Mandatory Palestine

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1921 in British-administered Palestine

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1921 in the United Kingdom

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

Incumbents

Events

Unknown dates

Notable births

  • 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

Notable deaths

  • 2 May – Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature
  • 5 May –
    1921 Palestine riots

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