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July 24 : In Article 4 of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine the term "Jewish Agency" appears.
The Mandate for Palestine accorded Great Britain by the League of Nations called for the establishment of a Jewish Agency to represent the Jewish people vis-a-vis the Mandatory government and to cooperate with it in establishing the national home. The Zionist Organization was initially given the status of a Jewish Agency. Following The League Council's ratification the Jewish Agency becomes the main organization through which Palestinian Jewry maintains its contacts both with world Jewry and with the Mandatory authorities and foreign governments.

Correspondence with the Palestine-Arab Delegation and the Zionist Organization.

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 order the removal of 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 of 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.

Otto Fritz Meyerhof, is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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