1940 in Mandatory Palestine

none March 2021 September 2010 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine«««193919381937border|right|120px»»»194119421943 See also:1940 in the United Kingdom Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine. Incumbents High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein Prime Minister of Transjordan – Tawfik Abu al-Huda Events August 2010 thumb|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.http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=PLS%2F1940%2F04%2F30&id=Ar00900&sk=E28D5529 Lebanon outclassed by Palestine selected 30 April 1940 The Palestine Post 25 March 2020 26 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200926053105/http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=PLS%2F1940%2F04%2F30&id=Ar00900&sk=E28D5529 dead 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.Maya Zamir, The Day of The bombing https://web.archive.org/web/20080112084944/http://www.tam.co.il/7_9_2007/magazin1.htm 12 January 2008 , Tel Aviv Magazine, 7 September 2007 (Hebrew) 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 (died 2020) 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 (died 2025) 4 August – Eliyahu Ben Haim, Israeli-American rabbi, prominent leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in New York City 15 August – Ze'ev Revach, comedian, movie actor, director (died 2025) 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 (died 2022) Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli war hero of the Yom Kippur War and protest leader Notable deaths thumb|right|150px|Ze'ev Jabotinsky 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 1940 Category:Years in Mandatory Palestine Category:Mandatory Palestine in World War II