1921 in Mandatory Palestine

← 1920 1919 1918 1921 in Mandatory Palestine → 1922 1923 1924
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1921 Timeline of Palestinian history

Events in the year 1921 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

• High Commissioner - Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
• Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein from 11 April
• Prime Minister of Transjordan - Rashid Tali’a from 11 April until 15 August; Mazhar Raslan

Events

• 12 March - Start of Cairo Conference which agrees that the administration of Transjordan should be separated from that of Palestine.
• 11 April - The establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan, which continues to remain part of the British Mandate of Palestine.
• 1 May–7 May - Jaffa riots: Riots in Jaffa result in the death of 47 Jews (including the author Yosef Haim Brenner) and 48 Arabs.
• May - Fourth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem.
• October - The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry publishes its findings on the Jaffa Riots of the previous year.

Unknown dates

• The founding of the Hebrew Writers Association in the Land of Israel by Hayim Nahman Bialik.
• The founding of the kibbutz Tel Yosef by members of Gdud HaAvoda, named after Joseph Trumpeldor.
• The founding of the kibbutz Ein Harod by pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
• The founding of the moshav Nahalal by pioneers of the Second Aliyah and Third Aliyah.
• The founding of the moshava Ramat Gan.

Notable births

• 6 January - Haim Corfu, former Israeli politician
• 17 March - Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general (died 2009)
• 9 April - Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel
• 26 August - Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (died 1994)
• 15 September - Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure (died 2004).

Notable deaths

• 2 May - Yosef Haim Brenner (born 1881), Russian-born Palestinian Jew. Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature

References

Years in Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)
1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1930s	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1920s	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
British-administered Palestine (pre-Mandate)	1918 1919 1920