1934 in Mandatory Palestine

1934 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1934 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1934

Events in the year 1934 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem

Events

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• According to official statistics there were 42,359 Jewish immigrants during 1934.^[1]

• 19 February – The first organized group of Youth Aliyah children from Germany, organized by the Youth Aliyah Bureau, arrive in Palestine and is sent to study in Kibbutz Ein Harod.
• 14 May – Severe rainstorms in Tiberias lead to a flood in which 35 people are killed and about 100 buildings are destroyed.
• 18 July – The founding of settlement Kiryat Bialik by Jewish German immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah.
• December – National Defense Party (Mandatory Palestine) established.

Unknown dates

• The
  anti-Semitic
  policies in other European countries which included pogroms, persecutions and restrictions.
• The "Sieff Institute" is established in 1934 in Rehovot, a research institute which later becomes the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Notable births

• 13 January – Avraham Ravitz, Israeli politician and member of the Knesset (died 2009).
• 15 January – Ephraim Stern, Israeli archaeologist (died 2018).
• 17 February – Adiel Amorai, Israeli politician.
• 21 February – David Avidan, Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright (died 1995).
• 25 February – Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commando (died 2014).
• 5 March –
  Nobel Prize
  laureate (died 2024).
• 8 March – Yaakov Shabtai, Israeli writer (died 1981).
• 21 April – Meron Benvenisti, Israeli political scientist and deputy mayor of Jerusalem
• 13 May – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (died 2010).
• 9 May – Zvi Alderoti, Israeli politician.
• 24 June – Daoud Hanania, Jordanian heart surgeon.
• 28 June – Eitan Berglas, Israeli economist and banker, chair of Bank Hapoalim (died 1992).
• 26 July – Raaphi Persitz, Israeli chess master (died 2009).
• 22 October – David Libai, Israeli jurist and politician (died 2023).
• 9 November – Shulamit Lapid, Israeli novelist and playwright.
• 18 November – Sara Japhet, Israeli biblical scholar.
• 7 December – Avraham Katz-Oz, Israeli politician.
• 12 December – Haim Kaufman, Israeli politician (died 1995).
• Full date unknown
  • Amos Lapidot, Israeli fighter pilot, former commander of the Israeli Air Force (died 2019)
  • David Ivry, Israeli general and diplomat, former commander of the Israeli Air Force.
  • Abu Ali Iyad, Palestinian Arab and senior Fatah field commander based in Syria and Jordan during the 1960s and early 1970s (died 1971).

Notable deaths

• 4 July – Hayim Nahman Bialik (born 1873), Russian-born Jewish poet and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry.
• 27 March –
  Palestine Police
  in Jaffa five months earlier.

• 2 November – Edmond James de Rothschild (born 1845), French-born Jewish philanthropist and a major supporter of Zionism during the First Aliyah period.

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