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February 12: The Bialik Institute, founded by the Jewish Agency, starts its publication activity.

February 12: A group of 100 Jewish immigrants who arrived without permits and were detained by the British start a hunger strike in Acre prison. They are allowed to stay.

June 9: Death of Shmaryahu Levin, writer and Zionist leader. Born in 1867, he was a member of the Zionist Executive (1911-1920), member of the Zionist Executive Council (1905-1911 and from 1920 until his death). He was one of the leading figures active in the Keren Hayesod, and made a great contribution to culture and information campaigns in Palestine and in the Diaspora.

July 11: Moshe Shertok, who succeeds Arlozoroff as head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, meets with Emir Abdallah in Amman.

August 10 - September 3: The 19th Zionist Congress convenes in Lucerne, Switzerland under the leadership of Nahum Sokolow. The Revisionists do not participate. The 19th Zionist Congress approves the "Transfer Agreement" with Germany. Chaim Weizmann is reelected president, and David Ben Gurion chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, as Labor dominates the congress. He forms a coalition with the General Zionists and Mizrachi. Also elected to the Executive: Selig Brodetsky, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Yehuda Leib Cohen Fishman, Eliezer Kaplan, Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich and Moshe Shertok. The Jewish Agency assembly contributed the following non-Zionist members: Maurice Hexter, David Werner Senator and Maurice Karp.

Eliahu Dobkin is appointed head of the immigration department. He will hold this post until 1946.

The far-reaching development within the Zionist leadership, which started in 1933, ends in 1935:
David Ben Gurion is elected chairman of the Jewish Agency.
Chaim Weizmann's position is on decline, in spite of his reelection as president of the WZO.
The Zionist center of gravity passes from London to Jerusalem. The development is induced by the rise of power of the Labor faction in the Yishuv and in the Jewish world, the weakening of the Revisionists, and the formation of an alliance between Mapai and the two religious parties (Mizrachi and HaPoel HaMizrachi) which will last until 1977. From 1935 until the establishment of the state, the same group of leaders will play the central role: David Ben Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, Moshe Shertok and Eliezer Kaplan.

In 1935, 65,000 new immigrants arrive in Palestine, ten new settlements are established.

Chairmen of the Jewish Agency Executive: Arthur Ruppin and David Ben Gurion.

Treasurer of the Jewish Agency: Eliezer Kaplan.

Chairman Youth Aliyah Department: Henrietta Szold.

Chairman Settlement Department: Dr. Maurice Hexter.

Chairman of the Immigration Department: Eliahu Dobkin and Moshe Shapira.

January 11: Several religious agricultural training groups found HaKibbutz HaDati.

January 22: An oil pipeline from Northern Iraq to Haifa is inaugurated.

A freighter that runs aground off the shore of Tel Aviv draws hundreds of the city's residents, who loot the cargo of apples.

February 23: Premiere of the first talking movie "This is the land" in Tel Aviv.

February 25: The Haifa-Trieste line is inaugurated with the Palestine Maritime Lloyd ship "Tel Aviv".

March 21: Leon Recanati, an immigrant from Greece, opens the Discount Bank in Tel Aviv.

April 2: Opening of the second Maccabiah.

May: Joseph Budko (1888-1940), printer and graphic artist who left Germany in 1933 and settled in Palestine, becomes director of the new Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.

June: A documentary film, "The Land of Promise", is made in Palestine by Jewish film professionals from Germany. It describes the achievements of the Jewish community in Palestine and is shown throughout the world.

June 3: High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope announces a pardon for all prisoners convicted for the 1929 riots.

June 18: Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission.

June 20: Cornerstone ceremony for the Habimah theater.

July 24: Elections are held for the 19th Zionist Congress. Of the 90 delegates, 61 are from Labor, 12 from religious parties, 11 from the General Zionists.

September 1: Death of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook.

A major banking crisis occurs in Palestine in September as a result of panic withdrawals in expectation of a war between Italy and Ethiopia. Italy will invade Ethiopia on 3 October. The is also a factor in the decrease of economic prosperity in Palestine.

September 7: The Revisionist movement quits the Zionist Organization and establishes the New Zionist Organization in a conference in Vienna.

October 18: The British discover concealed pistols and bullets as several barrels of cement burst during unloading at Jaffa port. They are unable to uncover the consignees.

October 26: The Arabs declare a general strike in the wake of the discovery of the weapons in Jaffa port.

November 20: After the Sheikh Iz-al-Din al-Qassam band struck again on 6 November and killed Police Sergeant Moshe Rosenfeld in the encounter, the British manage to rout the band. Al-Qassam is killed in a shootout with the police near a village in the Jenin district. The Arab population declares him a martyr.
On 25 November, Arab representatives meet with the High Commissioner and present a series of demands: a halt to Jewish immigration, a ban on land sales to Jews, and the granting of self-rule to the Arab majority.

December 21: The British High Commissioner announces to Arabs and Jews the British intention of setting up a Legislative Council in Palestine.

December 22: The Ohel Theater mounts a premiere: "The Brave Soldier Schweijk" by Jaroslav Hasek.

Mandatory report for 1935.

Nazi Germany in 1935.

Yellow benches for the segregation of Jews are set up in Berlin parks and labeled: "Only for Jews."

March: Jews are excluded from military service as German enacts the Conscription Law.

September: Nazi Germany adopts the Nuremberg laws (NürnbergerGesetze).

December: Wave of anti-Jewish riots in Poland.

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), the father of photojournalism, leaves Germany for the USA where he joins the staff of Life Magazine.

The Reconstructionist movement under the leadership of Mordecai M. Kaplan, issues a platform that calls for the establishment of a Palestinian commonwealth as indispensable to Jewish life in the Diaspora.

Premiere of "Porgy and Bess" by George and Ira Gershwin.

Issachar Ryback, Russian-born painter who settled in Paris in 1926, dies.

Rabbi Isidore Epstein (1894-1962) begins supervision of an English translation of the Babylonian Talmud, published by the Soncino Press.

Film producer Joseph Green comes to Poland from the USA to make "Yidl mitn Fidl", a Yiddish film starring Molly Picon.

The second world conference of Betar is held in Cracow. Ze'ev Jabotinsky propounds the text of the Betar ideology: "I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan."

Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 from Poland, writes "The Brothers Ashkenazi".

Austrian Catholic writer Irene Harand (1900 - 1975), co-founder of the "Harand Movement" against National Socialism and Anti-Semitism and editor of the journal "Gerechtigkeit" - "Justice" publishes "His Struggle - Eight Responses to Hitler".