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January 30: The chairman of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission, Sir Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett), arrives for a prolonged visit.

April: An agreement is reached between the Histadrut and the Zionist Executive regarding large-scale development projects in the Jewish economy.

June 18: The report of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission is published in London.

The building of the National Institutions compound starts. The architect is Yohanan (Eugen) Ratner.

January 1: The constitution of the Jewish community is written. The constitution will be approved by the National Council on the 10th.

February 25: The first soccer derby is held in Tel Aviv. Maccabi beats Hapoel-Allenby 3:0.

March 27: The Habimah Theater of Moscow arrives for its first visit.

May 8: The Mandatory government decides to develop the country's major port in Haifa rather than in Jaffa.

June 20-21: The seventh Arab Congress meets in Jerusalem and calls on the government to speedily establish the legislative council and to cancel the concession obtained by the potash company at the Dead Sea.

July 6: The British government appoints a new high commissioner for Palestine, Sir John Chancellor.

July 27: Controversy in the Yishuv between advocates and opponents of the Mandate's constitution of the Jewish community comes to a head during a farewell meeting with outgoing High Commissioner Plumer. The opponents are joined by Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ya'akov Meir.

July 31: High Commissioner Plumer ends his term of office and leaves the country.

August 14: The Palestine Soccer Association is established by representatives of Maccabi Hapoel and an Arab team from Jerusalem.

August 27: The Arabs of Jerusalem celebrate the dedication of the new silver dome of the al-Aqsa mosque.

September 24: The Yom Kippur incident occurs at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

October 21: With the improvement of the economic situation, the Mandatory Government agrees to grant the Jewish institutions 600 entry permits for the next six months.

November 28: The British government publishes a memorandum on the Yom Kippur incident. It calls on Jews and Muslims to reach a solution by agreement.

November 30: High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor arrives in Palestine.

December 18: Netanya is founded.

Yehuda Burla (1886-1969), Palestinian writer who became the first modern Hebraist to deal with the life of Middle East Sephardim, writes his first novel, "His Hated Wife". It deals with the life of a Sephardic Jewish family from Marocco living in Jerusalem.

Mandatory report for 1928.

The Soviet Union begins with the settling of Jews in the Birobidzhan region in eastern Siberia.

The German "Jüdisches Lexikon" - "Encyclopedia Judaica" begins publication under the editorship of Jakob Klatzkin, Nachum Goldmann and Ismar Elbogen. The rise of the Nazi regime will prevent the completion. Only 10 volumes appear, through the letter L.

Kurt Weill (1900-1950) writes the music to Bert Brecht's "Dreigroschenoper" - "Threepenny Opera".

The Nazi party wins 12 seats including one for Adolf Hitler, for the Reichstag elections. Party membership exceeds 100.000.

Adolf Hitler associates the degeneration of Germany with German Jewry.