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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 Battalion) 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 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.