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Former mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff, joins the Zionist Executive as head of its department of commerce and industry.

Unemployment in the Jewish economy develops during the winter. The prosperity of 1924-25 is over.

February 14: The Mandatory Government announces changes in the security forces. The Palestine Gendarmerie, in which Jews serve, is disbanded, and the Transjordan Frontier Force, which does not accept Jewish recruits, is formed. The Yishuv leadership protests the discrimination.

March 5: High Commissioner Plumer signs a franchise allowing the Palestine Electric Corporation to utilize Palestine's waters for the production of electricity.

March 24: The "Aviv" - "Spring" fair opens in Tel Aviv.

March 25: A society of Jewish-Arab understanding "Brit Shalom", is founded. The initiators include Dr. Arthur Ruppin and Jehuda Magnes.

April 1: Hebrew Book Day is mounted in Tel Aviv.

May 4: Thousands attend the funeral of Max Nordau in Tel Aviv.

June 25: Ninth session of the Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva.

November 5: The first conference of the Union of Zionists-Revisionists in Palestine is held under the leadership of Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

The economic crisis that strikes the Fourth Aliyah mainly affects the urban sector, which had enjoyed a sudden boom. By contrast, the agricultural sector is relatively unaffected and is given a boost by a large-scale national settlement drive initiated by the Settlement Department of the Zionist Executive. Eight new settlements are established in the western Jezreel valley.

Mandatory report for 1926.

Morris A. Cohen, "Two-gun Cohen" (1887-1970) becomes general in the Chinese Nationalist party.

Herman Bernstein, U.S. journalist, institutes a lawsuit against Henry Ford, whose magazine "The Dearborn Independent" helped to circulate the antisemitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

"Das Schloss" - "The Castle" by Franz Kafka is published posthumously by Max Brod.

Leo Blech (1871-1958) is appointed conductor of the Berlin State Opera.

Isaac Babel (1894-1941), Russian Jewish author, writes "Red Cavalry", a volume of stories of his experiences in the Russian Revolution and of Jewish life in his native city of Odessa.