1942 in Mandatory Palestine

1942 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1942 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1942

Events in the year 1942 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Tawfik Abu al-Huda

Events

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• January – The
  Histadruth.^[1]
• 12 February –
  Lehi underground Zionist group, is assassinated by British Intelligence officers, who storm the Tel Aviv
  apartment in which he is hiding, tie him up and shoot him.
• 24 February –
  Axis-allied Romania to Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Shch-213
  , killing at least 768 civilians, and possibly as many as 791, of whom 785 were Jews.
• May – The
  Tel Aviv Central Bus Station
  opens to the public.
• 6–11 May – The Biltmore Conference, held in New York City at the prestigious Biltmore Hotel with 600 delegates and Zionist leaders from 18 countries attending, makes a fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy and demands "that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth" (state), rather than a "homeland." This sets the ultimate aim of the movement.
• 2 August – The British form the
  Axis Powers against the Allies
  .

• Ihud, a Jewish political party, established.

Notable births

• 21 January – Yigal Bibi, Israeli politician
• 12 February – Ehud Barak, the 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF and former Prime Minister of Israel
• 28 February – Dorit Beinisch, Israeli jurist, President of the Israeli Supreme Court
• 2 March – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer and poet (died 1999)
• 19 March – Ran Goren, Israeli general and fighter pilot
• 16 April – Zvi Arad, Israeli mathematician (died 2018)
• 28 May – Eliezer Rivlin, Israeli jurist, judge on the Israeli Supreme Court
• 6 June – Gideon Toury, Israeli scholar (died 2016)
• 4 July – Micha Ram, Israeli military officer, commander of the Israeli Navy (died 2018)
• 4 July –
  IDC Herzliya
• 6 August –
  Ariel
  (died 2013)
• 24 August – Reuven Gal, Israeli psychologist
• 1 September – Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli jurist, Attorney General of Israel
• 2 September – Yossi Vardi, Israeli entrepreneur
• 19 November – Amihai Mazar, Israeli archaeologist
• 7 December – Ehud Kalai, Israeli-American game theorist
• Full date unknown
  • Itamar Rabinovich, Israeli diplomat

Notable deaths

• 3 January –
  Palestinian Jew who was the founder of The Palestine Electricity Corporation
• 12 February –
  Lehi

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