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

The first German Youth Aliyah group walking towards Kibbutz Ein Harod, 1934

• 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.

Unknown dates

• The Organized illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine begins in 1934, following the deteriorating situation of the German Jews after the Nazi party rise to power in 1933 and also as a result of the adoption of 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).
• 21 February – David Avidan, Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright (died 1995).
• 5 March – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 13 May – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (died 2010).
• 24 June – Daoud Hanania, Jordanian heart surgeon.
• 26 July – Raaphi Persitz, Israeli chess master (died 2009).
• Full date unknown
  • 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

Edmond James de Rothschild

• 4 July – Hayim Nahman Bialik (born 1873), Russian-born Jewish poet and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry.
• 27 March – Musa al-Husayni (born 1853), Palestinian Arab politician and leader of the Palestinian Arab national movement from 1922 until 1934.
• 2 November - Edmond James de Rothschild (born 1845), French-born Jewish philanthropist and a major supporter of Zionism during the First Aliyah period.