Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Incumbents
Events
Notable births
- 25 January â Avraham Lanir, Israeli fighter pilot, highest ranking Israeli Air Force pilot to fall into enemy hands (died 1973)
- 25 January â Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (died 2011)
- 26 February â Amos Kloner, Israeli archaeologist (died 2019)
- 29 February â Uri Milstein, Israeli historian
- 12 March â Eitan Haber, Israeli journalist
- 26 March â Haim Oron, Israeli politician
- 1 April â Amos Yaron, Israeli general
- 19 April â Yaron Ezrahi, Israeli political theorist (died 2019)
- 1 May â Elana Eden, Israeli actress
- 10 May â Zeidan Atashi, Druze Israeli politician and diplomat
- 29 May â Eliezer Shlomo Schick, Israeli Hasidic rabbi (died 2015)
- 6 June â Asa Kasher, Israeli philosopher and linguist
- 17 July â Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Arab politician and senior member of PLO (died 2001)
- 1 August â Ram Loevy, Israeli television director and screenwriter
- 4 August â Eliyahu Ben Haim, Israeli-American rabbi, prominent leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in New York City
- 15 August â Ze'ev Revach, comedian, movie actor, director
- 24 August â Yaron London, Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter
- 12 September â Amatzia Chen, Israeli general
- 3 October â Tamar Gozansky, Israeli politician
- 18 October â Uzi Even, Israeli scientist and politician, first openly gay member of the Knesset
- 20 October â Iftach Spector, Israeli fighter pilot
- 23 October â Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008
- 24 October â Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
- 24 October â Dan Shilon, Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, TV host and media personality
- 18 November â Haim Harari, Israeli theoretical physicist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- 24 December â Shaul Amor, Israeli politician (died 2004)
- Full date unknown
- Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian Arab, intelligence chief of the Palestinian National Authority (died 2010)
- Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artist
- Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli war hero of the Yom Kippur War and protest leader
Notable deaths
- 4 August â Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born 1880), Russian (Ukraine)-born Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa
- 29 December â Dov Hoz (born 1894), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist leader, founding member of the Haganah, and aviation pioneer
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