Terrorism in Israel - 1931

1931

In 1931 4,075 Jewish immigrants arrived in Palestine.

Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organisation) founded by the Revisionists with Vladimir Jabotinsky as commander-in-chief.

January 5 - Elections held for the third Jewish Assembly of Representatives.

February 14 - Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sends a letter to Chaim Weizmann qualifying some of the proposals in the Passfield White Paper. The letter becomes known as the "Black Letter" amongst Palestinian Arabs.

April 11 - Three members of kibbutz Yagur were killed by members of a local Arab gang.

August - Demonstrations in Nablus against the storing of weapons in isolated Jewish settlements are broken up by police baton charges.

November 18 - Second British census of the population of Palestine calculates that Jews make up 16.9% of the total population.

November 20 - Sir Arthur Wauchope becomes High Commissioner.

December 16 - The Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Husseini, chairs a Moslem Congress in Jerusalem which is attended by 145 delegates from all parts of the Moslem world.

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