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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."

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".

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 the territory of the British Mandate.
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 the city 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 officially opened.

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 to be deported to 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.