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April 8: A historic meeting takes place between Yishuv and Zionist leaders and dignitaries from Transjordan at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The Jewish leaders include Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Arlozoroff, Yitzhak Ben Zvi and Moshe Shertok.

April 11-19: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, British Colonial Secretary, visits Palestine. He tours the settlements, accompanied by Chaim Weizmann and Chaim Arlozoroff.

May: The Jewish Agency searches for ways to bring out Jewish assets from Germany.

June 16: The head pf the Political Department, Chaim Arlozoroff is shot in the Tel Aviv shore and dies of his injuries.
The murder is never solved, but Mapai accuses the Revisionists of the crime.

August 21 - September 4: The 18th Zionist Congress convenes in Prague. It is marked by the attainment by the Labor Movement of 45% of the seats, enabling it to form the leadership coalition of the Zionist Executive for the first time. The Revisionists, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky obtain less than 20%. The Congress decides to dispatch a committee to inquire into the activities of radical Revisionist groups in Palestine. Nahum Sokolow is reelected president of the Zionist Organization. Moshe Shertok is appointed head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency. Ben Gurion does not obtain a particular portfolio, but he will assist Moshe Shertok. Also elected to the directorate are: Selig Brodetsky, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Victor Jacobson, Berl Locker, Louis Lipsky, Eliezer Kaplan, Arthur Ruppin. The Jewish Agency assembly adds only three non-Zionists: Yitzhak Bergson, David Werner Senator and Maurice Hexter.

August: Zionist Leaders enter into an agreement with Nazi authorities to facilitate German Jewish emigration to Palestine by allowing the transfer of their capital in the form of German goods. Many oppose the "Transfer Agreement" - "Ha'avarah" as standing in contradiction to the boycott against Germany. Others believe the argument for rescue and for building a haven in Palestine for those threatened is more convincing.

September 1: The "Transfer Agreement" is implemented in Germany.

November 11: Death of Leo Motzkin, a veteran of the Zionist movement.

Chairman of the Immigration Department: Yitzhak Gruenbaum.

In 1933, 21 new Jewish settlements are established and there are over 37.000 new immigrants.

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive: Arthur Ruppin.

Treasurer of the Jewish Agency: Eliezer Kaplan.

Chairman Youth Aliyah Department: Henrietta Szold.

Chairman Settlement Department: Dr. Maurice Hexter.

January 1: Four bus companies merge and establish the Egged bus cooperative. The name is invented by Chaim Nahman Bialik.

February 22: Tension mounts among the Arabs. An incident in Emek Hefer involving Bedouins and Jewish plowmen results in the death of a Jewish guard. The Arabs call upon the government to prohibit Jewish immigration and land sale to the Jews.

March: The Yishuv is agitated by the political development in Germany.

April 12: The cornerstone is laid for the Daniel Sieff Institute, later to become the Weizmann Institute of Science.

April 17: In Tel Aviv a violent confrontation occurs between participants in a Betar parade and Labor supporters.
A similar incident will take place in Haifa on May, 31.

May 2: The United Committee for the Settlement of German Jews is organized to aid immigrants.

The polarization between the labor Movement (Histadrut and Mapai) and the Revisionists intensify and reach their peak after the assassination of Chaim Arlozoroff.

June 18: Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt suffers a heart attack during the work for the movie "Dream of My People" at the Dead Sea. Within a short while he dies in the age of 51. More than 5.000 people attend his funeral on Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

June 19: Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission.

July 17: Elections for the 18th Zionist Congress: a large victory for Mapai. Together with HaShomer HaTzair they hold 34 of 50 delegates. The Revisionists, the primary opposition, obtain 5 delegates.

October 27: A large Arab demonstration in Jaffa is followed by an Arab general strike throughout the country, which lasts for a week. Confrontations with the police result in many Arab casualties: 24 dead and over 200 injured.

October 31: Opening of the country's first deep-water port in Haifa.

Revisionists are openly talking of the need to throw the British out of the country.
On December 9, police and Revisionist activists clash during a protest against British restriction of immigration.

Mandatory report for 1933.

On the eve of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, 560,000 Jews live in Germany, which is less than 1 percent of the total German population of 65 million. 90,000 (19,8 percent) of Germany's Jewish population are eastern European nationals. There is an intermarriage rate of 60 percent by 1932. The Jewish population of Berlin is 160,546.

The Nazis rise to power.

Max Liebermann is ousted from the presidency of the Berlin Academy of Art and his paintings are removed from German museums.

To escape the Nazi regime, the Warburg Library is transferred to London and renamed the Warburg Institute.

Bruno Walter (1876-1962), music conductor in Berlin and Leipzig leaves Germany.

Albert Einstein resigns his post at the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and accepts a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He will never return to Germany.

April 1: The Nazis stage a one-day boycott of all Jewish stores, doctors and lawyers.

Robert Weltsch (1891-1982), German Zionist journalist, writes and article in the "Jüdische Rundschau": "Trag ihn mit Stolz, den gelben Fleck" - "Wear It with Pride, the Yellow Badge".

The first anti-Jewish ordinance is passed barring anyone who is not of "Aryan descent" from public employment.
German Jewish leaders establish a Central Bureau for Relief and Reconstruction to extend legal and economic assistance to Jews who lost their jobs or were forced to leave their places of residence.

May 10: The Nazis arrange the public burning of books by Jewish and non-Nazi writers in great bonfires throughout Germany.

The Mishnah becomes available to the general reader through a standard translation by the English Hebraist Herbert Danby (1889-1953).

Leo Baeck, Berlin Reform rabbi, announces the end of the 1000-year history of Germany's Jews. As president of the representative body of German Jews, he refuses invitations to leave the country and declares that he will remain with the last group of German Jews. Baeck will be sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 and survive the war.