1945 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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1945 in the British Mandate of Palestine

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1944
1944 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1944 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Incumbents:* High Commissioner - Sir Harold MacMichael until 30 August; John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort* Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein...


1943
1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1943 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:...


1942
1942 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1942 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:...



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1946
1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Incumbents:* High Commissioner – Sir Alan Cunningham* Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein until 25 May...


1947
1947 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1947 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Events:* 7 January – The founding of the kibbutz Mivtahim.* 26 January - Irgun members kidnap a British intelligence officer two days before the planned execution date of the Irgun member Dov Gruner.* 27 January - Irgun members kidnap...


1948
1948 in the British Mandate of Palestine
Events in the year 1948 in the British Mandate of Palestine.-Incumbents:* High Commissioner – Sir Alan Cunningham-Events:-1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine:...

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1945 in the United Kingdom
1945 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1945 in the United Kingdom. This year sees the end of World War II and a landslide General Election victory for the Labour Party.-Incumbents:*Monarch – King George VI...


Other events of 1945

Events in the year 1945 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

  • High Commissioner
    High Commissioners of Palestine
    High Commissioners of Palestine were the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the British Mandate of Palestine. They were based in Jerusalem...

     - John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
    John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
    Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC , was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier. As a young officer in World War I he won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the...

     until 5 November; Sir Alan Cunningham
  • Emir of Transjordan
    Transjordan
    The Emirate of Transjordan was a former Ottoman territory in the Southern Levant that was part of the British Mandate of Palestine...

     - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
    Abdullah I of Jordan
    Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, King of Jordan [‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] عبد الله الأول بن الحسين born in Mecca, Second Saudi State, was the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah...

  • Prime Minister of Transjordan - Samir al-Rifai
    Samir al-Rifai
    Samir al-Rifai was a six-time Prime Minister of Jordan.Al-Rifai served under Kings Abdullah I, Talal and Hussein:*Prime Minister of the Emirate of Transjordan from 15 October 1944 to 19 May 1945...

     until 19 May; Ibrahim Hashem
    Ibrahim Hashem
    Ibrahim Hashem was a Jordanian lawyer and politician who served in several high offices under Faisal I of Iraq, Abdullah I of Jordan and Hussein of Jordan:*Prime Minister of the Emirate of Transjordan from 18 October 1933 to 28 September 1938...


Events

  • 11 July – The founding of the kibbutz
    Kibbutz
    A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

     Hukok.
  • 15 July – Jewish holocaust survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp arrive at Haifa port and are arrested by the British.
  • 31 August – U.S. President Harry Truman issues a statement requesting the British government to admit 100,000 Jewish refugees in Europe into Palestine.
  • 27 September – The Defence Emergency Regulations
    Defence (Emergency) Regulations
    The Defence Regulations are an expansive set of regulations that were first enacted by the Mandatory authorities in British Mandate Palestine on 27 September 1945...

     are enacted by the Mandatory authorities.
  • 5 November – Sir Alan Cunningham assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine
    High Commissioners of Palestine
    High Commissioners of Palestine were the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the British Mandate of Palestine. They were based in Jerusalem...

    .

Notable births

  • 20 February - Amram Mitzna
    Amram Mitzna
    Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician and former general. He is the acting mayor of Yeruham, the former mayor of Haifa and led the Labour Party from 2002 to 2003.-Youth, studies and military service:...

    , Israeli politician and former general, the acting mayor of Yeruham
    Yeruham
    Yeruham is a town in the Southern District of Israel, in the Negev desert. It covers 38,584 dunams and had a population of 9,400 in 2006. It is named after the Biblical Jeroham. The mayor of Yeruham was Amram Mitzna but his term ended in early 2011, and he was succeeded by Michael Bitton of...

    , the former mayor of Haifa
    Haifa
    Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

    .
  • 28 March - Ruth Gavison
    Ruth Gavison
    Ruth Gavison is an Israeli Law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is also a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute...

    , Israeli jurist.
  • 9 April - Adam Baruch
    Adam Baruch
    Baruch Meir Rosenblum , better known by the pen name Adam Baruch, was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.-Biography:...

    , Israeli journalist, writer and art critic (d. 2008
    2008 in Israel
    Events in the year 2008 in Israel.-Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Ehud Olmert * President of Israel – Shimon Peres* Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi* Government of Israel – 31st Government of Israel-Events:...

    ).
  • 19 April - Yehuda Barkan
    Yehuda Barkan
    Yehuda Barkan is an Israeli actor, film producer, film director and screenwriter.- Early life :Barkan was born in Netanya and was initially named Yehuda Ezekiel Berkowitz. In his childhood Barkan studied at the Bialik and ORT in schools in Netanya...

    , Israeli actor, producer, director and screenwriter.
  • 21 April - Nadav Levitan
    Nadav Levitan
    Nadav Levitan was an Israeli film director, screenwriter, writer and songwriter. He directed nine films between 1981 and 1999. His film Yaldei Stalin was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.. He was married to Israeli singer Chava Alberstein, who had recorded...

    , Israeli film director and screenwriter (d. 2010
    2010 in Israel
    -Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu * President of Israel – Shimon Peres* Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi* Government of Israel – 32nd Government of Israel-Events:...

    ).
  • 27 June - Ami Ayalon
    Ami Ayalon
    Amihai "Ami" Ayalon is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy...

    , Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party.
  • 31 August – Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...

    , Israeli-American violinist and conductor.
  • 30 September – Ehud Olmert
    Ehud Olmert
    Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, as a Cabinet Minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006, and as Mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003....

    , 12th Prime Minister of Israel
    Prime Minister of Israel
    The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...

    .
  • 23 November - Assi Dayan
    Assi Dayan
    Asaf "Assi" Dayan is an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.-Personal life:Assi Dayan is the youngest son of Israeli general and minister of defence Moshe Dayan and peace activist Ruth Dayan . He has two siblings: politician and author Yael Dayan, born 1939, and sculptor Ehud ...

    , Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
  • 31 December - Tuvia Tzafir
    Tuvia Tzafir
    - Biography :Tzafir was born in Tel Aviv and was initially named Tuvia Kozlowski. Tzafir grew up in a traditionalist home of Jewish immigrants from Poland who lived in the Florentin neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv. During the early sixties Tzafir got his big breakthrough when he...

    , Israeli actor and comedian.

Notable deaths

  • 22 January - Else Lasker-Schüler
    Else Lasker-Schüler
    Else Lasker-Schüler was a Jewish German poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.-Biography:Schüler was born in...

     (b. 1869), German-born Palestinian Jewish poet.
  • 11 June - Eliyahu Golomb
    Eliyahu Golomb
    Eliyahu Golomb was the leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah, the underground military organization for defense of the Yishuv between 1920 and 1948.-Early life:...

     (b. 1893), Russian (Belarus)-born leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah
    Haganah
    Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...

    .
  • 20 July - Yohanan Levi
    Yohanan Levi
    Yohanan Levi was a Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period.- Biography :Levi was born in Berlin, Germany in 1901. He studied at Berlin University and received a doctorate in 1926. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934 and taught at the Hebrew University of...

     (b. 1901
    1901 in Germany
    -National level:* Kaiser - Wilhelm II* Chancellor - Bernhard von Bülow-Kingdoms:* King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria* King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II* King of Saxony - Albert of Saxony* King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg-Grand Duchies:...

    ), German-born Palestinian Jewish Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period.
  • 11 November - Yehoshua Hankin
    Yehoshua Hankin
    Yehoshua Hankin was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine....

     (b. 1864), Russian (Ukraine)-born Zionist
    Zionism
    Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

     activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization
    World Zionist Organization
    The World Zionist Organization , or WZO, was founded as the Zionist Organization , or ZO, in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress, held from August 29 to August 31 in Basel, Switzerland...

     in Ottoman
    Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

     Palestine
    Palestine
    Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

    .
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