1921 in Mandatory Palestine

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

Incumbents

• 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

March

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

April

• 11 April – The establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan.

May

• 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

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

October

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

Unknown dates

• 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 Ir Ganim (Today Ramat Gan).

Notable births

• 1 January – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar (died 1986)
• 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 (died 2025)
• 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)
• 21 March – Amin al-Majaj, Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem (died 1999)
• 1 April – Arieh Elias, Israeli actor (died 2015)
• 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

• Burhan Dajani, Palestinian academic and economist (died 2000)
• Wajih Al Madani, Palestinian military commander (died 1991)
• Amos Hakham, Israeli Bible scholar (died 2012)

Notable deaths

• 31 March – Kamil al-Husayni, Palestinian religious leader and grand Mufti of Jerusalem.(Born 1867)
• 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