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May 17: Death of Nahum Sokolow.

May 19: The first cargo of cement is uploaded from a ship which drops anchor opposite the sea shore of Tel Aviv. Permission is given by the British authorities because of the Arab general strike which completely paralyses the port of Jaffa. The Tel Aviv municipality and the Jewish Agency set up a company for the development of the Tel Aviv port. the "Sea Enterprise Fund". Two years later the port is opened for passenger traffic.

Immigration in 1936 slows down in comparison with previous years. Less than 36.000 newcomers arrive.

The Yishuv establishes an aerial branch, the Aviron company. It is financed by the Jewish Agency and the Histadrut.

The compound of the National Institutions' buildings is opened. The architect is Yohanan (Eugen) Ratner.

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive: 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.

February 4: The Arabs of Palestine declare a general strike in support of the struggle of the Syrians against the French rule.

March 10: A Jewish bus passenger is shot in the Tul Karm area. Another such incident will take place on April 15.

March 30: Death of David Montagu Eder, one of Britain's leading Zionists. Born in 1866, he was a member of the Zionist directorate in Jerusalem and in London. Eder was President of the British Zionist Federation.

The Mandate Palestine Broadcasting Service begins operations.

April 16: Two members of the Irgun Bet kill two Arabs near Petah Tikvah.

April 19: Outbreak of rioting in Jaffa. Nine Jews are killed.

April 20: The rioting in Jaffa continues, seven more Jews are killed. Jewish residents flee Jaffa. This is the begin of the Arab Revolt which will last for three years.

April 23: The rioting spreads.

April 24: An Arab general strike is announced.

April 25: An Arab inter-party congress in Nablus establishes the Arab Higher Committee, headed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini. The committee puts forward three basic demands: a total halt to Jewish immigration, a ban on the sale of land to Jews and the establishment of a national Arab government.

April 26: The Jews demand the opening of a port in Tel Aviv in response to the strike at the Jaffa port. The Tel Aviv port will be opened on May 19.

April 30: The Levante Fair opens in Tel Aviv despite the disturbances.

May: An unofficial attempt is made by the Jewish "Group of Five" to calm the atmosphere.

May 13 : Two Jews are killed in the Old City of Jerusalem.

May, 16: A bomb thrown by Arabs kills three Jews at the Edison cinema in Jerusalem. The Haganah demands permission to retaliate, but Ben Gurion refuses.

May 18: The British government announces the appointment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the riots in Palestine.

May 25: The Jewish Auxiliary Police, "Ghaffirs", is established to guard Jewish settlements and rural roads.

June 8: A newly created Haganah mobile unit starts to carry out "counter-terrorist" operations in the Judean hills

June 13: After a British officer is attacked in Jerusalem, the Mandatory Government decrees new emergency regulations: death sentence or life sentence for those who open fire on Mandate officials.

July: At the request of the British authorities, Iraqi Foreign Minister Nuri-es Said persuades the Arab Higher Committee to negotiate the end of the uprising and strike.

In summer, the authorities destroy several hundred houses in the old city of Jaffa. Some of them are blown up. The residents - all Arabs - are given twenty-four hour notices and ordered to evacuate their homes. High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope demands that the supervision of counterterrorism remains in his hands. The Jaffa incident inflames the wrath of the Arab community. The high commissioner tries to delay the decision to impose martial law.

September 7: Following months of debate and hesitation, the British decide to suppress the Arab Revolt resolutely. Large-scale military reinforcements stream into the country.

September 30: High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope announces a state of emergency.

October 10: The kings of the Arab States call upon the Arab Higher Committee to end the strike.

October 12: The Arab strike ends after nearly six months. In the riots, 80 Jews, 95 Arabs and 36 Mandatory soldiers are killed. More than a thousand Arabs are killed in clashes between Arabs and the British army and police.

November 7: The Peel Commission arrives in Palestine. It will hear evidence during more than two months. Chaim Weizmann provides the main testimony for the Jews (25.11.)

December 1: Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevy Herzog is elected Ashkenazi chief rabbi. Rabbi Ya'akov Meir is reelected Sefardi chief rabbi.

December 12: Kibbutz Tel Amal (later known as Nir David) is set up in the Bet Shean valley. It is the first of the Homa U'Migdal settlements. At first they are meant to prevent Arab farmers from continuing to work land bought by the Zionist movement. But the Homa U'Migdal system also allows settlers to feel patriotic and rebellious, as if they are engaged in secret military operations. These overnight projects thus become a way for the labor movement to channel and control the nationalist fervor of its members.

December 26: The first concert of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra is held in Tel Aviv under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, with Bronislaw Huberman, the founder of the orchestra, as soloist.

In 1936, an international airport begins operations east of Lydda.

Mandatory report for 1936.

Nazi Germany in 1936.

David Frankfurter assassinates Wilhelm Gustloff, Adolf Hitler's personal representative in Switzerland.

A pogrom in Przytyk, Poland, results in three Jewish deads and 60 wounded.

June: Leon Blum is the first Jew and first Socialist to become Prime Minister of France. He will serve until June 21, 1937.

Benny Goodman (1909-1986), jazz clarinetist and band leader, organizes the Benny Goodman Trio.

Otto Loewi (1873-1961), Austrian biochemist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology.

August 15: The World Jewish Congress is founded in Geneva.