According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935.[1]
A split occurred between traditional Zionists and Revisionists, who endorsed the use of violence to establish a Zionist state.[2]
Arab leadership accepted a British proposal for a legislative assembly by the British High Commissioner, but it was rejected by the British House of Commons in 1936.[3]
16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine.
November – The Arab political parties demanded an end to Jewish immigration and land transfer, as well as the establishment of democratic institutions.
20 November – Sheikh Muhammad Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Sunni Islamic preacher and leader of the armed organization Black Hand which used violence against Jewish civilians and the British, is killed in a gunbattle with British police forces near Jenin.
9 June – Shmaryahu Levin (born 1867), Russian (Belarus)-born rabbi and Zionist activist.
1 September – Abraham Isaac Kook (born 1865), Russian (Latvia)-born first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
20 November – Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (born 1882), Syrian-born Palestinian Muslim cleric who founded and headed the militant Black Hand movement and a number of other extreme anti-Jewish and anti-British groups. He was based in Haifa and president of the Young Men's Muslim Association there.[4]
