1925 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1925 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
- High Commissioner - Sir Herbert Louis Samuel until 30 June; Herbert Onslow Plumer
- Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - 'Ali Rida Basha al-Rikabi
Events
The opening ceremony of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1 April 1925
- 6 February - The official opening ceremony of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 1 April - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus on Mount Scopus is opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel.
- 1 May - The founding of the kibbutz Givat HaShlosha by group of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
- 1 June - The first edition of the Hebrew-language daily newspaper "Davar" is published under the name Davar - Iton Poalei Eretz Yisrael (lit. Davar - Newspaper of Eretz Yisrael Workers).
- 6 December - Second Assembly of Jewish Representatives elected.
Unknown dates
- The founding of the moshav Ramatayim, one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon.
Notable births
- 6 January - Uzi Narkiss, Israeli general (died 1997).
- 29 January - Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (died 2018)
- 10 March - Mordechai Alkahi, Irgun member and one of the Olei Hagardom (died 1947).
- 9 April - Kamal Nasser, Palestinian Arab politician, PLO leader, writer and poet (died 1973).
- 14 May - Yuval Ne'eman, Israeli physicist, politician, and President of Tel Aviv University (died 2006).
- 25 May - Moshe Gidron, Israeli military officer, major general in the IDF (died 2009).
- 7 June - Reuven Shefer, Israeli actor (died 2011).
- 24 August - Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht, Israeli rabbi, founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (died 1995).
- 25 August - Yeshayahu Gavish, Israeli general
- 2 November - Aryeh Nehemkin, Israeli politician.
- 29 November - Zvi Zibel, Israeli soldier, posthumous recipient of the Hero of Israel award (died 1948).
- 1 December - Dov Levin, Israeli jurist, judge on the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2001).
- 24 December - Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli singer (died 2012).
- 25 December - Geulah Cohen, former Israeli politician and journalist (died 2019).
- 25 December - Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian (died 2014).
- Full date unknown
- Shlomo Moussaieff, Israeli jeweler (died 2015).
- Walid Khalidi, Palestinian Arab historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus.
- Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach, Israeli rabbi (died 2008).
References
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