1931 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner - Sir John Chancellor until 20 November; Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan - Hasan Khalid Abu al-Huda until 22 February; Abdallah Sarraj

  Events

• According to official statistics there were 4,075 Jewish immigrants during 1931.
• 5 January - Third Jewish Assembly of Representatives election.
• 10 April - The right-wing "revisionist" Zionist armed underground paramilitary group "Irgun" is founded by Avraham Tehomi together with several other former Haganah commanders. The founders had left the Haganah due to their objection to the official policy of havlagah, which Jewish political leaders had imposed on the militia, and they demanded more decisive action against the rising Arab violence which targeted Palestinian Jews.
• 11 April - Three members of kibbutz Yagur were killed by members of a local Arab gang.
• 18 November - The 1931 census of Palestine is carried out by the Mandate authorities under the direction of Major E. Mills.
• 22 December - Two members of Nahala Moshav, a man and his son, killed when a bomb was thrown into their home. The attack is attributed to members of the Black Hand Gang.

  Unknown dates

• The founding of the kibbutz Ein HaHoresh by Hashomer Hatzair members from Eastern Europe who reclaimed the land.

  Notable births

• 17 January - Yaakov Gil, Israeli politician
• 13 February - Assaf Yaguri, Israeli politician and soldier
• 8 August - Yehoshua Matza, Israeli politician
• 16 May - Geula Zylberman, Jewish-Palestinian born Venezuelan artist
• 24 May - Eliezer Goldberg, Israeli jurist, judge on the Israeli Supreme Court and former State Comptroller of Israel
• 5 September - Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist
• 20 September - Haya Harareet, Israeli actress
• 21 September - Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek
• 8 October - Sara Kishon, Israeli musician, author, and art collector
• 27 October - Shalom Cohen, Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva, spiritual leader of the Shas party
• 17 November - Amira Sartani, Israeli politician
• 27 November - Yaakov Ziv, Israeli computer scientist
• Full date unknown
• *Michal Har'el, Israeli beauty queen
• * Naim Attallah, Palestinian Arab businessman and writer
• * Ruth Horam, Israeli painter and sculptor
• * Avraham Katz, Israeli politician
• * Farouk Kaddoumi, Palestinian Arab, senior member of Fatah
• * Shaul Foguel, Israeli mathematician
• * Taha Muhammad Ali, Israeli Arab poet.
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• * Ram Karmi, Israeli architect

  Notable deaths

• 16 April - Rachel Bluwstein , Russia-born Palestinian Jewish poet.