Events in the year 1937 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 5 January â Dan Tichon, former Israeli politician
- 20 January - Haim Hazan, Israeli basketball player (died 1994)
- 11 February â Eliezer Waldman, Israeli politician and rabbi (died 2021)
- 24 February â Shimon Elituv, Israeli rabbi
- 23 February â Raffi Lavie, Israeli artist and art and music critic (died 2007)
- 13 March â Zephaniah Drori, Israeli Rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- 16 March â Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist (died 1996)
- 26 March â Ahmed Qurei, Palestinian Prime Minister (died 2023)
- 4 April â Ya'akov Tzur, Israeli politician
- 6 April â Uzi Baram, Israeli politician
- 14 April â Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman (died 2013)
- May â Abu Nidal, Palestinian Arab, founder of Fatah â The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group, commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (died 2002)
- 28 June â Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian Arab, co-founder and leader of Hamas (died 2004)
- 30 June â Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (died 2012)
- 11 July â Adin Steinsaltz, Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2020)
- 20 July â Zalman Baruch Melamed, Israeli Rabbi and founder of the Arutz Sheva news service
- 5 August â Amir Drori, Israeli military officer (died 2005)
- 5 August â Dan Shomron, Israeli military officer, 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF (died 2008)
- 30 August â Yigal Cohen-Orgad, Israeli politician (died 2019)
- 3 September â Ruchama Marton, Israeli physician, psychiatrist, and political activist
- 6 November
- Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal, Israeli Arab Anglican bishop
- Hanna Siniora, Palestinian Christian businessman and politician
- 11 November â Yitzhak Ziv, Israeli politician
- 18 December â Moshe Sharon, Israeli historian
- 26 December â Eliezer Berland, Israeli rabbi
- Undated:
- Arie Vardi, Israeli musician
- Uzi Rubin, Israeli engineer
- Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, Palestinian Arab poet (died 2010)
- Abu Daoud, Palestinian Arab politician and military commander, planned 1972 Munich Olympics massacre (died 2010)
- Salman Abu-Sitta, Palestinian Arab researcher
- Samir Ghawshah, Palestinian Arab, member of the PLO executive (died 2009)
- Nahid al-Rayyis, Palestinian Arab politician and poet (died 2010)
- Naim Ateek, Palestinian Christian priest, founder and head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.
- Aliza Magen-Halevi, Israeli intelligence officer (died 2025)
Deaths