1940 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
- High Commissioner - Sir Harold MacMichael
- Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - Tawfik Abu al-Huda
Events
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5 November:The "Patria" sinking in Haifa harbor
- 27 April – A friendly association football match between the national teams of Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon takes place at the Maccabiah Stadium in Tel Aviv; Mandatory Palestine beats Lebanon 5–1.[1]
- June – The Zionist underground paramilitary group "Lehi" is established by Avraham Stern with the aim of forcibly evicting the British from Palestine.
- 9 September – The Italian Air Force bombs Tel Aviv causing 137 deaths.[2]
- 25 November – The Patria, a French-built ocean liner, carrying approximately 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine, sinks in the Haifa harbour after a bomb carried covertly on board by the Haganah to explodes; 260 people are killed and another 172 injured.
- 12 December – The MV Salvador carrying some 327 Bulgarian Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine, is wrecked in a violent storm in the Sea of Marmora, near Istanbul; 204 passengers including 66 children are drowned.
Notable births
- 25 January - Avraham Lanir, Israeli fighter pilot, highest ranking Israeli Air Force pilot to fall into enemy hands (died 1973)
- 25 January - Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (died 2011)
- 26 February - Amos Kloner, Israeli archaeologist (died 2019)
- 29 February - Uri Milstein, Israeli historian
- 12 March - Eitan Haber, Israeli journalist
- 26 March - Haim Oron, Israeli politician
- 1 April - Amos Yaron, Israeli general
- 19 April - Yaron Ezrahi, Israeli political theorist (died 2019)
- 1 May - Elana Eden, Israeli actress
- 10 May - Zeidan Atashi, Druze Israeli politician and diplomat
- 29 May - Eliezer Shlomo Schick, Israeli Hasidic rabbi (died 2015)
- 6 June - Asa Kasher, Israeli philosopher and linguist
- 17 July - Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Arab politician and senior member of PLO (died 2001)
- 1 August - Ram Loevy, Israeli television director and screenwriter
- 4 August - Eliyahu Ben Haim, Israeli-American rabbi, prominent leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in New York City
- August 15 - Ze'ev Revach, comedian, movie actor, director
- 24 August - Yaron London, Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter
- 12 September - Amatzia Chen, Israeli general
- 3 October - Tamar Gozansky, Israeli politician
- 18 October - Uzi Even, Israeli scientist and politician, first openly gay member of the Knesset
- 20 October - Iftach Spector, Israeli fighter pilot
- 23 October - Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008
- 24 October - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
- 24 October - Dan Shilon, Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, TV host and media personality
- 18 November - Haim Harari, Israeli theoretical physicist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- 24 December - Shaul Amor, Israeli politician (died 2004)
- Full date unknown
- Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian Arab, intelligence chief of the Palestinian National Authority (died 2010)
- Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artist
- Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli war hero of the Yom Kippur War and protest leader
Notable deaths
- 4 August - Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born 1880), Russian (Ukraine)-born Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa
- 29 December - Dov Hoz (born 1894), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist leader, founding member of the Haganah, and aviation pioneer
References
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- "Lebanon outclassed by Palestine selected". The Palestine Post. 30 April 1940. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- Maya Zamir, The Day of The bombing Archived 12 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Tel Aviv Magazine, 7 September 2007 (Hebrew)
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