The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

1924 in the British Mandate of Palestine

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See also:

1924 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1924

Incumbents edit

Events edit

  • 24 April – The football team "Hapoel Haifa" is established, the first football team to belong to the "Hapoel" sport association.
  • 30 June Jacob Israël de Haan assassinated in Jerusalem by Haganah
  • 17 October – The HaNoar HaOved ("The Working Youth") movement is founded by Palestinian Jewish youth working to defend their rights. The name of the movement was changed in 1959 to "HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed" ("The Working and Studying Youth").
  • 13 December – The founding of Herzliya, initially a semi-cooperative farming community (moshava), near the central Mediterranean coast of the country.

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  • Collective Responsibility Ordenance issued giving powers of collective punishment in rural areas. Introduced to combat feuding between communities. The powers included application of fines and demolition of houses.[1]
  • The founding of the moshav Magdiel, one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon.
  • The founding of the agricultural settlement Bnei Brak by Rabbi Yitzchok Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish chasidim.

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References edit

  1. ^ Shepherd, Naomi (1999) Ploughing Sand. British Rule in Palestine 1917–1948. John Murray. ISBN 0-7195-5707 0. p.197
  2. ^ Vanessa L. Ochs (1 June 2007). Inventing Jewish Ritual. Jewish Publication Society. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-8276-0834-4.