The 1920s

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The 1920s

1920 to 1929

Britain holds the Mandate. The Hebrew University opens on Mount Scopus, and the riots of 1929 end the Jewish community of Hebron.

TURNING POINTS

1920 Mar 1 Tel Hai. Joseph Trumpeldor and seven others die defending the Galilee outpost. His last words, said to be that it is good to die for our country, become a legend.

1922 The Mandate is confirmed. The League of Nations approves it. Transjordan is separated from the land west of the Jordan.

1923 Reuven Rubin settles in Tel Aviv. His bright landscapes help create a local style of painting.

1924 to 1928 The Fourth Aliyah. About 67,000 Jews, many of them middle-class Poles, arrive after the United States closes its doors in 1924. They fill the towns, above all Tel Aviv.

1929 Aug 23 to 29 Riots across the land. In Hebron 67 Jews are killed on August 24 and the Jewish community leaves. Safed and Jerusalem are also attacked.

ALSO IN THIS PERIOD

1920 Apr 4 to 7 Riots in Jerusalem during the Nebi Musa festival kill five Jews.

1920 The San Remo conference assigns the Mandate for Palestine to Britain.

1920 The Haganah is formed as a Jewish defense organization.

1920 Jul 1 Herbert Samuel arrives as the first High Commissioner.

1920 Dec The Histadrut labor federation is founded in Haifa.

1921 May 1 Riots in Jaffa kill dozens of Jews and Arabs.

1921 May Haj Amin al-Husseini is named Mufti of Jerusalem.

1921 Avraham Shlonsky arrives and begins to write modern Hebrew poetry.

1921 Sep Nahalal, the first moshav, is founded.

1922 Mar 1 Yitzhak Rabin is born in Jerusalem.

1922 Jul 24 The League of Nations confirms the Mandate.

1922 Sep 16 Territory: Britain excludes Transjordan from the Jewish national home.

1923 Jabotinsky founds the Betar youth movement.

1923 Sep 29 The Mandate for Palestine takes effect.

1923 Oct 9 The poet Haim Gouri is born in Tel Aviv.

1924 May 26 The United States passes a law that sharply cuts Jewish immigration.

1924 The poet Hayim Nahman Bialik settles in Tel Aviv.

1924 The Technion opens its first classes in Haifa.

1924 Uri Zvi Greenberg arrives and writes in Hebrew.

1925 The Hebrew University opens on Mount Scopus.

1925 Natan Alterman arrives from Warsaw.

1925 Jabotinsky founds the Revisionist movement.

1925 Patrick Geddes plans the growth of Tel Aviv.

1925 Aug Brit Shalom, a group for Arab and Jewish understanding, is founded.

1926 An economic crisis ends the Fourth Aliyah boom.

1927 Unemployment and emigration peak in the economic crisis.

1927 Jul 11 An earthquake kills hundreds in the land.

1928 Feb 26 Ariel Sharon is born in Kfar Malal.

1928 The Mandate recognizes the organized Jewish community.

1928 Sep 24 A Yom Kippur dispute at the Western Wall inflames tensions.

1929 Aug 24 Rioters kill 67 Jews in Hebron.