5 January – The founding of the kibbutz Sde Nahum by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as Jewish immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland.
7 July – The Peel Commission publishes a report that recommends the end of the Palestine mandate and its partition into separate Arab and Jewish states.
13 September – The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Szold
26 September – The British District Commissioner for the Galilee Lewis Yelland Andrews is assassinated in Nazareth by a gang of armed Arabs. His assassination was considered to represent the apex of the great Arab revolt in Palestine. Andrews's murder causes Britain to respond by outlawing the Arab Higher Committee.
1 October – Following the assassination of the British District Commissioner for the Galilee, the British authorities ban all Arab nationalist political organisations and arrests members of the Arab Higher Committee. Four of whom are deported to the Seychelles. Haj Amin al-Husseini and Jamal al-Husseini avoid arrest and leave the country.
14 April – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman (died 2013)
May – Abu Nidal, Palestinian Arab, founder of Fatah – The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group, commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (died 2002)
28 June – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian Arab, co-founder and leader of Hamas (died 2004)
30 June – Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (died 2012)
11 July – Adin Steinsaltz, Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2020)
