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August 18-28: The 14th Zionist Congress is held in Vienna. In its course, a heated 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 in the Lower Galilee.

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), a 68 year old field marshal.

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 4.3% 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.