17 June - 3 Arab Palestinians hanged for their part in the August 1929 riots. 25 other prisoners, two of them Jewish, had their death sentences commuted.[1] The day was remembered by Palestinians as "Red Tuesday".[2]
1 October -
Lord Passfield, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, issues a
white paper, a formal statement of the British policy in Palestine, with a decidedly anti-Zionist tone, and which Zionists claim backtrack on British commitments in the
Balfour Declaration.
21 October - The Hope Simpson Royal Commission publishes the
Hope Simpson Report, following the widespread
1929 Palestine riots, which recommends limiting
Jewish immigration, claiming a lack of agricultural land to support such immigration.
Unknown dates
The founding of the kibbutz
Na'an by 42 members of the
Noar HaOved youth group, on lands purchased from the Arabic village
Al-Na'ani.
Births
7 February -
David Bar-Ilan, Israeli pianist, author, political spokesman, and columnist (died 2003).
17 June - 3 Arab Palestinians hanged for their part in the August 1929 riots. 25 other prisoners, two of them Jewish, had their death sentences commuted.[1] The day was remembered by Palestinians as "Red Tuesday".[2]
1 October -
Lord Passfield, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, issues a
white paper, a formal statement of the British policy in Palestine, with a decidedly anti-Zionist tone, and which Zionists claim backtrack on British commitments in the
Balfour Declaration.
21 October - The Hope Simpson Royal Commission publishes the
Hope Simpson Report, following the widespread
1929 Palestine riots, which recommends limiting
Jewish immigration, claiming a lack of agricultural land to support such immigration.
Unknown dates
The founding of the kibbutz
Na'an by 42 members of the
Noar HaOved youth group, on lands purchased from the Arabic village
Al-Na'ani.
Births
7 February -
David Bar-Ilan, Israeli pianist, author, political spokesman, and columnist (died 2003).