June – The
Zionist underground
paramilitary group "
Lehi" is established by
Avraham Stern with the aim of forcibly evicting the British from Palestine.
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)
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
June – The
Zionist underground
paramilitary group "
Lehi" is established by
Avraham Stern with the aim of forcibly evicting the British from Palestine.
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)
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