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Arabs attack Jewish settlements in the Galilee. Yosef Trumpeldor and five others are killed during the defense of Tel Hai (1st March).

April, 4-6: Outbreak of Arab Riots. Arabs gather in Jerusalem for the traditional Nebi Musa procession and attack the Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Speakers condemn Zionism. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, commander of the Jewish defense in Jerusalem, is arrested by the British and accused of possessing weapons and disturbing the peace. On April 19 he is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor. He will be pardoned in 1921.

April, 24: At the Conference of San Remo, the Entente Powers decide to hand over the mandate for Palestine to the British.
Sir Herbert Samuel is offered the position of civil high commissioner. He accepts.

June, 13-15: The Ahdut Ha'Avoda Party convenes in Kinneret. It decides to establish the Haganah organization for a countrywide Jewish self-defense.

June, 30: Sir Herbert Samuel arrives in Jaffa and is received with a military ceremony.

July, 1: British military rule in Palestine ends. Sir Herbert Samuel takes up his position as high commissioner.

July, 2-24: The London Conference of the Zionist movement takes place where Keren Hayesod is founded.

August, 15: The British divide Palestine into seven districts: Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza, Beer Sheva, Samaria, and the Galilee.

August, 20: Transjordan is included in the British Mandate over Palestine.

August, 26: The Mandate government announces the first Jewish immigration quota: 16,500 permits for the coming year. Each permit entitles a family to enter.

October, 7-11: The first Elected Assembly is convened in Jerusalem. It elects an executive body, National Council (Va'ad Leumi), headed by David Yellin.

November, 10: Emir Abdallah, second son of Sharif Husseini of Hejaz (Saudi Arabia), arrives in Transjordan with 1,200 men, with the intention of attacking the French in response to the expulsion of his brother, Emir Faisal, from Damascus on July 25. In 1921 Faisal will be appointed king of Iraq by the British. He emphasizes equality of all Iraqis and serves until his death 1933.

December, 5-9: The Histadrut Ha'Ovdim (Federation of Labor) is founded in Haifa. It is a general labor organization in which all political parties can cooperate on labor, economic, and cultural questions.

December, 13-18: An Arab Palestinian congress is held in Haifa. It calls on the British to recognize the rights of the Arabs in Palestine and to nullify the Balfour Declaration and Zionist demands. An Arab executive body is established.

During the year, 142 pogroms and 36 lesser riots occur against the Jews of Ukraine.

The "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - NSDAP - publishes a 25 point program in München. At this time the party has 60 members.

Adolf Hitler speaks in München on the subject, Why We Are Against the Jews. He states that his party will "free you from the power of the Jews" and demands "the removal of the Jews from the midst of our people."

Franz Rosenzweig organizes the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus - Independent House of Jewish Learning - which becomes a center of adult Jewish education for assimilated Jews in search of their past.

Marc Chagall executes large paintings for the Jewish State Theatre in Moscow.

Samuel Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975), librarian at the Prague University library, emigrates to Palestine and becomes the first director of the National and University Library.

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September, 1-14: The Twelfth Zionist Congress convenes in Carlsbad under the leadership of Chaim Weizmann. Plans to aid the Yishuv are discussed. The congress protests against the Riots of 1921 and the restriction of Jewish immigration. It approves further land purchase and the establishment of settlements in the Jezreel Valley.
The movement is consolidated under Weizmann's leadership and the hope of political cooperation with the British under the impending mandate.

November, 7: The Zionist Executive replaces the Zionist Commission which has functioned as a representative body of the Zionist movement since 1918.

February, 22: The Chief Rabbinate is established. Rabbis Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook and Ya'akov Meir are chosen to be chief rabbis.

March, 24: British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill arrives. He meets with senior Mandatory officials, Arab leaders - who protest Britain's pro-Zionist policy, and the Jewish leaders.

March, 27: Emir Abdallah is invited to Jerusalem to meet with Churchill, Samuel and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He is offered the leadership of a Transjordanian entity under British influence.

April, 4: A Jewish and an Arab battalion are founded by the British.

May, 1-6: Outbreaks of Arab riots occur in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and various Jewish settlements. Writer Yosef Chaim Brenner is among the victims in Jaffa. A total of 47 Jews (45 alone in a hostel for new immigrants in Jaffa) and 48 Arabs are killed in the disturbances. The wounded number 146 Jews and 73 Arabs. The government appoints a commission of inquiry, headed by Chief Justice of Palestine Sir W. Haycraft to investigate the causes of the riots.

May, 8 : High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel agrees to the appointment of Haj Amin al Husseini, a leading Arab nationalist, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Muslim Council. Samuel rejects protests by the Jewish leadership.

June, 3: Sir Herbert Samuel explains, that from now, Jews will be allowed to enter Palestine based on their, and the country's economic situation.

July, 30: High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel writes the "Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine."

August, 1: The British publish new immigration regulations. The entry of Jews is limited.

September, 11: Foundation of the first workers' moshav: Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley.

September, 22: The Gedud haAvodah (Labor Legion) establishes a settlement in the eastern Jezreel Valley, Ein Harod.

November, 2: An Arab outburst occurs in Jerusalem on occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Arabs rampage through the Old City in Jerusalem. Five Jews and three Arabs die because of explosives thrown by the Jews.
Jewish leaders demand that Jerusalem commissioner Ronald Storrs be dismissed.

November: The report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry is published.

November, 30: Bank HaPoalim (The Workers' Bank) is established as the financial arm of the Histadrut.

David Ben Gurion is elected secretary-general of Histadrut which he and Berl Katznelson head for almost 14 years.

The First Art Exhibition at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem includes the debut exhibition of the Hebrew Union of Artists, a gallery of international artists, and an exhibition of Islamic art. Jewish artists exhibited include Israeli Paldi (1893-1979), Zeev Raban (1890-1970), Abel Pann (1883-1963), and Boris Schatz.

Abraham Shlonsky (1900-1973), poet and literary editor, returns to Palestine from Russia and engages in road building in the Jezreel Valley. Calling himself the "road-paving poet of Israel", he will spearhead the revolt against the school of Bialik and will play a central role in the modernization of Hebrew poetry.

During the Russian Civil War, ending in 1921, there are 2,000 pogroms in Poland and the Ukraine. Half a million Jews are left homeless; 30,000 Jews are killed directly and an additional 120,000 die from wounds or as a result of illnesses during the pogroms.

The Jewish Joint Distribution Committee begins with the establishment of medical stations, loan cooperatives, and vocational training schools in Russia and expends over 25 million dollar to help Polish and Russian Jews.

Albert Einstein, German physicist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the photoelectronic effect, which contributes to the foundation of the quantum theory, and not for his discovery of the theory of relativity.

Alter Kacyzne (1885-1941), Yiddish writer and professional photographer, is commissioned by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) to photograph the emigration process from Poland.

Herman Bernstein (1876-1935), U.S. journalist, writes "The History of a Lie", an account of how "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a forgery.

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January, 9: Ahad HaAm, a leader of spiritual Zionism, Hebrew essayist and leader of Hibbat Zion, immigrates to Palestine.

March, 11: Benches set up by Jews in front of the Western Wall incite Arab protest and demonstration. The police orders to remove the benches.

March: A new theatre is founded in Tel Aviv, the Dramatic Theatre, directed by Miriam Bernstein-Cohen.

May, 18: Ra'anana, an agricultural settlement is founded in the Sharon region.

June, 2: Petach Tikvah, Rishon LeZion and Rehovot are granted the status of local councils.

July, 3: The British government issues a White Paper, drawn up by Winston Churchill, on its projected policy in Palestine. It reaffirms that the Jews are in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance, restricts the Jewish National Home to the area west of the Jordan, limits Jewish immigration to the economic capacity of the country to absorb new immigrants, and pledges nondomination by the Jews of the Arab population. It also establishes a legislative council to represent all the inhabitants of the country.

July, 24: The League of Nations ratifies the British Mandate over Palestine.

August, 22-24: The fifth Arab Congress convenes in Nablus. It hardens its attitude toward the Jewish Yishuv and Zionism. Arabs are forbidden to trade with Jews or to sell land to them.

September, 11: The British Mandate is officially inaugurated. Sir Herbert Samuel is sworn in as high commissioner and as supreme commander of the army in Palestine. The Arabs protest the Mandate's alignment with the Balfour Declaration which was incorporated into the final approvement of the British Mandate by the League of Nations.

October, 22-28: The first population census is conducted in Palestine. Its results indicate that the total population is 757.200 of whom 83.800 are Jews and 673.400 are Arabs and others.

November, 4: Beit Alfa, the first kibbutz by the Kibbutz Artzi HaShomer HaTzair movement is founded.

June, 22: Walter Rathenau (1867-1922), an industrialist who in February became the first Jew to be appointed foreign minister of Germany, is assassinated by antisemites.

The American Jewish Congress becomes a permanent organization, representing Zionist-minded immigrant Jews from eastern Europe.

Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. The son of a Jewish mother, in 1943 he will escape from the Nazis in Denmark and thereafter become a consultant to the Allies' atomic bomb project.

Dvir, a Hebrew publishing house is founded in Berlin by Chaim Nachman Bialik and others. In 1924 it will begin publishing in Tel Aviv.

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January: Frederick Kisch takes up the post of head of the Political Department of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem, which he will fill until 1931.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky resigns from his post in the Zionist Executive in protest against its submission to British pressure especially regarding the severing of Transjordan from Palestine.

February: Session of the Zionist Actions Committee in Berlin.

Chaim Weizmann meets Felix Warburg, the philanthropic giant of interwar American Jewry, in America.

March, 13: Louis Marshall and Chaim Weizmann at an American meeting.

June: Report by the British government on the administration in Palestine. See: Article III: When, and in what manner, has the Jewish Agency been offically recognised.

August, 6 - 14: The 13th Zionist Congress is held in Carlsbad. A major topic is the establishment of an expanded Jewish Agency for Palestine.

Fall: Felix Warburg initiates a fund for the Hebrew University.

A first tentative sketch of the Jewish Agency constitution is elaborated.

January: Ha'aretz, published daily in Jerusalem since 1919, moves to Tel Aviv, signaling the future central position of the city. Dr. Moshe Gluecksohn is appointed chief editor.

February: Albert Einstein visits Palestine and is warmly welcomed all over the country.

March, 29: The Palestine Electric Corporation is established under the management of Pinhas Rutenberg.

May, 25: The British announce the official establishment of independent rule in Transjordan under Emir Abdallah.

May, 29: Sir Herbert Samuel announces the abandon of the plan for a legislative council in view of Arab opposition. Instead, the government will rely on an advisory council composed of 8 Muslims, 2 Christians, 2 Jews and 10 British administration officials. The Arabs oppose this body as well.

June, 10: The power station Tel Aviv begins operations. The city is electrified.

July, 26: The opera "La Traviata" is presented in Tel Aviv in Hebrew costumes.

August, 4: Histadrut General Secretary David Ben Gurion leaves for an extended visit to the Soviet Union to represent the Histadrut at an international agricultural fair. He returns some five months later.

October, 4: While the Zionist parties debate the expanded Jewish Agency, the British propose the establishment of an Arab Agency as well. The proposal is rejected by the Arabs and also by the National Council.

December, 31: Tel Aviv mayor Meir Dizengoff is attacked by a citizen of the city.

The Jewish community in Palestine undergoes a severe economic crisis. There is famine in the settlements and thousands are unemployed in the cities. The number of immigrants is the lowest in four years: 8.175. Immigration ceases towards the end of the year, marking the end of the Third Aliyah.

The first congress of the World Council of Jewish Women meets in Vienna. Organized by the National Council of Jewish Women in the U.S., it is chaired by Rebekah Bettelheim-Kohut (1864-1951) and brings together 200 Jewish women from over 70 countries to deal with issues concerning social justice for Jewish women.

Kurt Yehuda Blumenfeld (1884-1963), German Zionist leader, becomes president of the German Zionist Federation. He holds this post until 1933, when he leaves to settle in Palestine. He has an influence on Zionist activities of assimilated western European Jews, including Albert Einstein.

The first issue of the antisemitic newspaper "Der Stürmer", edited by Julius Streicher (1885-1946), is published in Nürnberg, Germany. The banner slogan of the newspaper is: "Die Juden sind unser Unglück" - "The Jews Are our Misfortune".
In November, Adolf Hitler is arrested after leading an unsuccessful attempt by his Nazi party to seize power in München. At the time of the putsch, the party has 70.000 members. Hitler is jailed in Landsberg and the party is banned. He will be released in 1924. At this time the Nazi party will have drastically in membership.

Betar (=Brit Trumpeldor), a Zionist youth movement is founded in Riga, Latvia. It is a fusion of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's nationalist and self-defense ideas with those of Joseph Trumpeldor.

Martin Buber publishes "Ich und Du" - "I and Thou", which formulates his philosophy of dialogue.

Otto Meyerhof (1884-1951), German biochemist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, in recognition of his research in the chemistry of muscles.

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On the eve of the first conference of American non-Zionist Jews, Chaim Weizmann writes to the Zionist Executive in London:
"It has fallen to my lot to adapt the Zionist Organization to modern requirements, and if this process of adaptation is difficult, nobody suffers from it more than I do myself. It must not be forgotten that non-Zionist Jews form an integral part of the Jewish community, and it is our duty to carry them along with us, even if we can only take them part of the way."

January: The noted Jewish soccer team from Vienna "Hakoah" visits Palestine on a playing tour. Hakoah, which has taken the Austrian cup several times and has won games throughout the world, beats the local teams by wide margins.

January, 27: Meeting between the leaders of the Yishuv, the Zionist movement, and King Hussein of Hejaz, who is visiting his son Emir Abdallah in Amman. Jewish participants are David Yellin, President of the National Council, Zionist Executive member Frederick Kisch, and the Sephardi chief rabbi. They lay out Zionist aspirations to the king and emphasize the desire for friendly relations with the Arabs.

March, 12: Solel Boneh, a construction company is established by the Histadrut.
The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA) is founded as the successor to the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA). It is led by James de Rothschild, son of Edmond de Rothschild.

April, 4: The British and French end their dispute over the northern border of Palestine. Metula and its environs are included in British Mandate territory.
The first issue of the periodical "Kiryat Sefer" appears. It is published by the National Library in Jerusalem.

May, 11-14: The first conference of the General Zionist movement is held in Jerusalem. It decides to establish a General Zionist Federation to amalgamate all centrist factions in Palestine.

May, 14: Establishment of Bnei Brak.

June, 1-2: The Histadrut decides to publish a daily, to be edited by Berl Katznelson.

June, 10: The Palestine Government Law School in Jerusalem awards graduation certificates to 45 students, most of them Jewish.

June, 30: Ya'akov Israel de Haan, a leader of Agudat Israel and an outspoken anti-Zionist, is shot and killed in Jerusalem by a small group of Haganah members, probably with permission from their leadership, who decide to terminate his activities.

October, 17: Histadrut Hano'ar Ha'oved (Federation of Working Youth) is founded to protect the rights of working youngsters.

October, 18: The second Haganah municipalities council is held and draw up a constitution for the organization.

November, 23: Herzliya is founded.

December, 22: The Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University is opened in Jerusalem, although the university has not yet opened officially.

In 1924 some 14.000 Jews immigrate to Palestine. Most of the newcomers are from Poland, a result of repressive economic decrees. The year marks the beginning of the "Fourth Aliyah".

Mandatory report for 1924.

Zvi Hirsch Belkowsky (1865-1948), chairman of the Zionist Central Committee in Russia, is arrested for his Zionist activities and sentenced to deportation of Siberia. His sentence is commuted, and he is banished from the Soviet Union and settles in Palestine.

Between 1924 and 1936, about 14.000 Soviet Jewish families are settled on collective farms in the Crimea and Ukraine through a cooperative effort of the Soviet Society for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers (KOMZET) and the American Joint Agricultural Society (Agro-Joint), a subsidiary of the Joint Distribution Committee, which funded the project. The project is headed by Joseph A. Rosen, a US agronomist. The Agro-Joint work will cease in 1938, when large numbers will have left the colonies. Most of the others will be murdered by the Nazis.

George Gershwin, US composer, creates his best-known work, "Rhapsody in Blue".

Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) found the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company and Harry Cohn (1891-1956) founds Columbia Pictures in Hollywood.

Harold Abrahams, British athlete, becomes the first European to win an Olympic sprint event when he wins the 100-meter dash.

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August, 18-28: The 14th Zionist Congress is held in Vienna. In its course, a sharp argument takes place between those who are for collective settlements and those who are for private and urban enterprise - practiced mainly in Tel Aviv by the Fourth Aliyah. Dr. Arthur Ruppin resigns from his office as head of the settlement department, while Chaim Weizmann hastens to praise the devotion of the pioneers and the achievements of the workers' factions.
Weizmann's proposal that the Jewish Agency be composed of equal numbers of Zionists and non-Zionists meets strong opposition.

January: The noted Jewish soccer team from Vienna "Hakoah" visits Palestine for a second round of matches. It beats the English national team by 4:2 and the Hebrew national team 11:2.

February, 9: The Technion, the first Hebrew institution of higher education, opens in Haifa.

February, 17-19: The National Council mounts a campaign to extend Herbert Samuel's term as high commissioner by an additional five years.
The Committee of the 15 is founded, with 5 representatives of the workers, 5 of the employers, and 5 representing the National Council and the Zionist Executive. Their task is to legislate labor laws concerning minimal wages and to conceive solutions to labor conflicts.

March, 31: Afula is founded.

April: Lord Arthur Balfour, former British foreign secretary and father of the Balfour Declaration, visits Palestine for the opening ceremony of the Hebrew University.

April, 1: The opening of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus is marked by a ceremony.

April, 30. The Revisionist movement, led by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, is founded in Paris. He calls for a Jewish state in Palestine on both sides of the Jordan.

May, 21: A new high commissioner is announced by London: Lord Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer (1857-1932), field marshal and 68.

June, 1: A new daily newspaper, "Davar", an organ of the Histadrut and edited by Berl Katznelson, appears.

June, 15: The Mandate government announces new immigration rules.

July, 2: High commissioner Herbert Samuel leaves Palestine from the port of Jaffa.

August, 1: Representatives of various sports clubs meet in Afula and establish a national sports organization named "Hapoel" - "The Worker".

August, 25; The new high commissioner, Lord Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer arrives in Palestine.

September, 16: The government announces the Citizenship Ordinance.

October, 10: The Arabs present their claims regarding their status in the country to the high commissioner.

The year marks the peak of immigration in the Fourth Aliyah and an intensive development of Tel Aviv. Thousands of immigrants arrive in the city monthly. The city spreads northward. A previous municipal decision not to permit multi-story construction is dropped. Since the beginning of 1924, Tel Aviv has doubled its population to a total of 40.000 at the end of 1925.

Mandatory report for 1925.

The Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is founded in Vilna, Poland. It is an educational institute for the study of Jewish history, language, and culture.

Pioneer Women, the Women's Labor Zionist Organization, is founded in the US.

The Jewish population of Berlin is 172.672, or 4,30 % of the total population. They comprise 30,6% of German Jewry.

Israel Davidson (1870-1939), professor of medieval Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America begins publication of his four-volume "Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry", which will be completed in 1938 and list 35.000 poems and prayers.

Sophie Tucker (1884-1966), singer, introduces "My Yiddishe Mame" which will become one of the songs with which she is closely identified.

Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), German novelist, writes "Jud Süß", a novel about the 18th century court Jew Joseph Oppenheimer. In 1939, the Nazis will use this book as the basis of an antisemitic film.

"Der Prozess" ("The Trial"), Franz Kafka's (1883-1924) novel is published posthumously by his friend Max Brod (1884-1968).

The Jewish Theater founded by Alexander Granovsky (1890-1937) in 1918 becomes the Jewish State Theater for the Soviet Union in Moscow.

James Franck (1882-1964), German physicist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, sharing the award with Gustav Hertz (1887-1950) for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of the electron on an atom.

The first volumes of the Bible translated into German by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig are published.

Simon Dubnow begins the publication of his 10-volume "World History of the Jewish People".

Adolf Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf", written while he was imprisoned in Landsberg.

The Locarno Pact is signed by the European nations, including Germany, guaranteeing frontiers of western Europe. Germany and France mutually agree not to make war against each other.

Arabs revolt against the French in Damascus, anti-British riots break out in Baghdad, there is a civil war in the Arabian Peninsula. Ibn Saud takes control of the entire peninsula.

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Former mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff, joins the Zionist Executive as head of its department of commerce and industry.

Unemployment in the Jewish economy develops during the winter. The prosperity of 1924-25 is over.

February, 14: The Mandate government announces changes in the security forces. The Palestine Gendarmerie, in which Jews serve, is disbanded, and the Transjordan Frontier Force is formed, which does not accept Jewish recruits. The Yishuv leadership protests the discrimination.

March, 5: High Commissioner Plumer signs a franchise allowing the Palestine Electric Corporation to utilize Palestine's waters for the production of electricity.

March, 24: The "Aviv" - "Spring" fair opens in Tel Aviv.

March, 25: A society of Jewish-Arab understanding "Brit Shalom" is founded. The initiators include Dr. Arthur Ruppin and Jehuda Leib Magnes.

April, 1: Hebrew Book Day is mounted in Tel Aviv.

May, 4: Thousands attend the funeral of Max Nordau in Tel Aviv.

June, 25: Ninth session of the Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva.

November, 5: The first conference of the Union of Zionists-Revisionists in Palestine is held under the leadership of Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

The economic crisis that strikes the Fourth Aliyah mainly affects the urban sector, which had enjoyed a sudden boom. By contrast, the agricultural sector is relatively unaffected and is given a boost by a large-scale national settlement drive initiated by the Settlement Department of the Zionist Executive. Eight new settlements are established in the western Jezreel valley.

Mandatory report for 1926.

Morris A. Cohen, "Two-gun Cohen" (1887-1970) becomes general in the Chinese Nationalist party.

Herman Bernstein, U.S. journalist, institutes a lawsuit against Henry Ford, whose magazine "The Dearborn Independent" helped to circulate the antisemitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

"Das Schloss" - "The Castle" by Franz Kafka is published posthumously by Max Brod.

Leo Blech (1871-1958) is appointed conductor of the Berlin State Opera.

Isaac Babel (1894-1941), Russian Jewish author, writes "Red Cavalry", a volume of stories of his experiences in the Russian Revolution and of Jewish life in his native city of Odessa.

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January, 17: An agreement is signed between Chaim Weizmann and Louis Marshall, the non-Zionist American Jewish leader, regarding the establishment of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the dispatch of a team of experts to Palestine - the Joint Palestine Survey Commission, headed by Sir Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett).

March, 10: Worsening unemployment in Jerusalem prompts demonstrations in the offices of the Zionist Executive by hundreds of jobless workers.

August, 30 - September, 11: The 15th Zionist Congress is held in Basel. It addresses the grave crisis in Palestine. It is decided to establish a minor Zionist Executive in Jerusalem to deal with the crisis. Members are Frederick Kisch, Harry Sacher and Henrietta Szold.

The Histadrut looks to the Jewish Agency to help finance its building and construction activities, and its social welfare institutions. But the Jewish Agency is itself entering a period of crisis.

January, 2: Ahad HaAm dies.

January, 16: The Ben Shemen youth village is established east of Lydda.

April, 1: The HaShomer HaZair kibbutzim and training groups establish a national organization in Haifa called "HaKibbutz Artzi" - "National Kibbutz".

April, 5: Municipal elections are held in Jerusalem. The election ordinance allocates four seats for Jews and eight for Arabs. Ragheb al Nashashibi is elected mayor. Deputy mayors are Chaim Salomon and Ya'akuv Faraj (a Christian).

June: The ongoing economic crisis is manifested in the bankruptcy of the Solel Boneh company.

July, 11: A strong earthquake strikes Palestine resulting in 192 dead and 923 injured. Destruction is particularly serious in mountain areas where the Arab population resides.

September, 20: A national agricultural exhibition, organized by the Mandate government, is opened in Haifa.

October, 24: 15th session of