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February 17: Chaim Weizmann continues to represent the Zionist Movement and meets with Italian leader Mussolini in Rome. Mussolini volunteers his help in arranging a partition of Palestine and promises a Jewish State. Weizmann is unimpressed. "I suggested deferring any discussion along the lines of a Jewish State until the population of Eretz Israel has reached half a million." Mussolini presents Weizmann with a signed photograph of himself.

March 25 - April 5: The Zionist Executive convenes in Jerusalem for the first time.

May 4: Only a quota of 5,600 immigration certificates are permitted for the forthcoming half year instead of the 20.000 requested by the Jewish Agency.

July 13: Beginning of the "Haapalah", the illegal immigration campaign, also known as "Aliyah B" carried out by sea. The "Vellos", bringing 350 immigrants belonging to the Hechalutz movement from Poland, begins disembarking its passengers at the sea shore near Kfar Vitkin, with the help of the Haganah. The Vellos is organized by Yosef Barpal of Kibbutz Ramat David. During the following month (August, 23) the first vessel belonging to the Revisionist Haapalah - the "Union" - arrives and manages to disembark 100 of the 117 illegal immigrants it is carrying, men of the Polish Revisionist movement, on the Tel Aviv sea shore. List of"Haapalah" (illegal immigration campaign) vessels.
From this year, the Jewish Agency organizes the "illegal" immigration, which will continue for 14 years, involve about 122,000 people, mot of whom will arrive by sea (108,000), some will come by land (5,000), by air (150), or via "Aliyah D" - using forged papers (8,500).

July 20-30: Ben Gurion holds intensive talks with High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope on immigration, the proposed legislative council and the possibility of Jewish settlement in Transjordan.

August 23: Death of Avigdor (Victor) Jacobsohn. Born in 1869, he was a delegate of the Zionist Organization to the League of Nations in Paris from 1925, and a member of the Jewish Agency Executive from 1933.

November, 2: Death of Baron Edmond de Rothschild. In 1929 he had been elected honorary President of the Jewish Agency.

November 28: The Mandatory Government grants a concession for the Hulah Valley to the Palestine Land Development Company connected to the Jewish Agency. Thousands of dunams of land for Jewish agriculture are acquired.

In 1934, 45,000 new immigrants, mostly from Germany, arrive in Palestine.

In the fiscal year 1933/34, the Agency budget of expenditure reaches a low of 55,704 Dollar.

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.

Chairman of the Immigration Department: Yitzhak Gruenbaum.

January 12: Tel Aviv attains the official status of a city.

Also in 1934, violent incidents between Betar and Histadrut members will continue. (January and March).

Confrontations also occur between workers and Jewish grove-owners who hire Arab workers. The National Council tries to mediate in Left-Right labor disputes and between workers and grove-owners

February 22: The large monument of a roaring lion by sculptor Avraham Melnikoff is unveiled in Tel Hai.

April 9: The inaugural congress of the Histadrut HaOvdim HaLeumit (National Labor Federation), identified with the Revisionist movement, convenes in Jerusalem.

May 14: A natural disaster occurs in Tiberias when cloudbursts cause flooding and rockfalls. Homes are swept into Lake Kinneret.

June 20: The (Sir Ellis) Kadoori Agricultural School for Jewish boys opens, funded by a Jewish philanthropist from Hong Kong. The same donor also builds a similar school for Arab boys in Tul Karm.

June 30: Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission.

July 4: Poet Chaim Nahman Bialik dies in Vienna. His funeral in Tel Aviv on 16 July is attended by tens of thousands of mourners.

September: The first countrywide communication exercise of the Haganah takes place. Light signals are transmitted at night from Beer Tuvia to Metula. The first transmission takes three and a half hours. After some exercises the time is reduced to a quarter of an hour.

October 16: The foundation stone is laid for the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.

October 26: A conciliatory agreement between David Ben Gurion and Ze'ev Jabotinsky is signed in London.

December: Revisionist Zionists begin to enroll at the Italian maritime school at Civitavecchia. This collaboration between Italian Fascists and Revisionist Zionists is based on their ideological differences with Great Britain. The Zionist relationship will end in 1938.

Mandatory report for 1934.

Nazi Germany in 1934.

In May, the Nazi newspaper "Der Stürmer" devotes a special edition to blood libel accusations against the Jews.

The Jewish Central Information Office is founded in Amsterdam by David Cohen (1883-1967) and Alfred Wiener (1885-1964) as an archive of materials on contemporary Jewish history, antisemitism, and the Nazi persecution. In 1939, it will be transferred to London and later renamed the Wiener Library.

Max Baer (1909-1959) wins the world heavyweight boxing title. Baer, who wears a Star of David on his boxing trunks, knocks out Primo Carnera of Italy in the 11th round at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Henry (Hank) Greenberg (1911-1986), first baseman of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, does not play on Yom Kippur although the team is in the midst of the pennant race.

Max Weber (1881-1961), U. S. painter and sculptor, whose avant-garde work is at first harshly criticized but later receives widespread acclaim, paints "The Talmudists".