1943 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan - Tawfik Abu al-Huda

  Events

• 18 February – World War II : The Polish Anders Army arrive in Palestine, where many Polish Jews, including Menachem Begin, desert to work on establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This becomes known as the 'Anders Aliyah'.
• 12 May – The founding of the kibbutz Gvulot.
• 1 – 20 November Lehi members flee from the Latrun Detention Camp through a 70 meter long tunnel.
• December – The founding of the kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

  Notable births

• 2 January - Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader
• 1 March – Benny Begin, Israeli geologist and politician
• 9 April - Uri Gil, Israeli Air Force officer
• 30 April – Ze'ev Boim, Israeli politician and Knesset member
• 30 April – Nechemya Cohen, Israeli army officer, the most decorated soldier in the history of the IDF
• 7 May - Herzl Bodinger, Israeli Air Force commander
• 18 May - Gershon Shefa, Israeli Olympic swimmer
• 19 May - Yosef Ahimeir, Israeli politician and journalist
• 2 June - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi, chief rabbi of Kfar Chabad
• 8 June - Uri Davis, Israeli academic and anti-Zionist political activist
• 12 June - Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Israeli psychology professor
• 2 August - Uzi Landau, Israeli politician
• 5 August - Uri Sagi, Israeli general
• 18 September - Issak Tavior, Israeli pianist, composer, and conductor
• 25 September - Yoav Gelber, Israeli historian
• 7 October - Yoram Globus, Israeli film producer and cinema owner
• 26 October - Ron Ben-Yishai, Israeli journalist
• 8 November - Boaz Davidson, Israeli film director, producer, and screenwriter
• 22 November - Naomi Blumenthal, Israeli politician
• 12 December – Hanan Porat, former Israeli politician
• 18 December – Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, theater director, author and poet
• Full date unknown
• * Yekutiel Gershoni, Israeli historian and paralympic champion
• * Dina Porat, Israeli historian
• * Tanya Reinhart, Israeli linguist and peace activist
• * Mubarak Awad, Palestinian Arab, Arab-American psychologist and political activist

  Notable deaths

• 1 January – Arthur Ruppin, German-born Zionist Palestinian Jewish leader
• 14 October – Shaul Tchernichovsky, Russian-born Palestinian Jewish Hebrew poet