25 April – Members of Lehi kill seven British soldiers guarding a military car park in Tel Aviv.[1]
30 April – The
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine. It also recommended that Palestine remain a mandated territory, that facilities be put in place to ensure Jewish migration and that the 1940 Land Act which banned Jews from purchasing land in 95% of Palestine be rescinded.
25 May – The United Kingdom grants full
sovereignty to Transjordan. The parliament of Transjordan proclaimed the ruler of Transjordan, emir
Abdullah, as Transjordan's king and formally changed the name of the country from the Emirate of Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Three years later the country changes its name to
Jordan.
16 June –
Night of the Bridges: Ten
Palmach members blow up bridges across Palestine which link Palestine to the neighboring countries
Lebanon,
Syria, Transjordan and
Egypt, in order to immobilize its transportation.
22 July –
King David Hotel bombing:
Irgun members detonate bombs in the basement of the
King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, where the British had brought a large amount of documents confiscated from the
Jewish Agency for Israel. The attack kills 91 people and injures 45 more, mostly civilians. The hotel was a center of British administration at the time, although Arabs and Jews were also victims. The
Jewish National Council condemns the attack.
25 April – Members of Lehi kill seven British soldiers guarding a military car park in Tel Aviv.[1]
30 April – The
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine. It also recommended that Palestine remain a mandated territory, that facilities be put in place to ensure Jewish migration and that the 1940 Land Act which banned Jews from purchasing land in 95% of Palestine be rescinded.
25 May – The United Kingdom grants full
sovereignty to Transjordan. The parliament of Transjordan proclaimed the ruler of Transjordan, emir
Abdullah, as Transjordan's king and formally changed the name of the country from the Emirate of Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Three years later the country changes its name to
Jordan.
16 June –
Night of the Bridges: Ten
Palmach members blow up bridges across Palestine which link Palestine to the neighboring countries
Lebanon,
Syria, Transjordan and
Egypt, in order to immobilize its transportation.
22 July –
King David Hotel bombing:
Irgun members detonate bombs in the basement of the
King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, where the British had brought a large amount of documents confiscated from the
Jewish Agency for Israel. The attack kills 91 people and injures 45 more, mostly civilians. The hotel was a center of British administration at the time, although Arabs and Jews were also victims. The
Jewish National Council condemns the attack.