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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 abandonment 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.

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 resident 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 increased 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.

Rabbi Meir Shapira at the first Great Assembly of Agudat Yisrael in Vienna suggests the "Daf Yomi Project", the reading of the Talmud in a seven and half year circle. The initiative is greeted with much enthusiasm, and the daily study begins immediately on Rosh Hashanah.