Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

* High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael *

Emir of Transjordan Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...

– Abdullah I bin al-Hussein * Prime Minister of Transjordan –

Tawfik Abu al-Huda Tawfik Abu al-Huda ( ar, توفيق ابو الهدى) (also known as Tawfik Pasha Abul-Huda) (1894 – 1 July 1956) served several terms as the 7th Prime Minister of Jordan. First he served as Prime minister of Transjordan from September 28, 19 ...

Events

* 18 February – World War II : The Polish Anders Army arrive in Palestine, where many Polish Jews, including

Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ...

, desert to work on establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This becomes known as the 'Anders Aliyah'. * 12 May – The founding of the

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

Gvulot. * 1 – 20 November

Lehi Lehi (; he, לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל ''Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi'', "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang,"This group was known to its friends as LEHI and to its enemie ...

members flee from the Latrun Detention Camp through a 70 meter long tunnel. * December – The founding of the

Yad Mordechai.

Notable births

* 2 January – Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (died 2017) * 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 (died 2011) * 30 April – Nechemya Cohen, Israeli army officer, the most decorated soldier in the history of the IDF (died 1967) * 7 May – Herzl Bodinger, Israeli Air Force commander * 18 May –

Gershon Shefa Gershon Shefa (born 18 May 1943) is an Israeli former swimmer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and the 1968 Summer Olympics. At the 1965 Maccabiah Games, he won a gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-mil ...

, Israeli Olympic swimmer * 19 May – Yosef Ahimeir, Israeli politician and journalist * 2 June – Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi, chief rabbi of Kfar Chabad (died 2015) * 8 June –

Uri Davis Uriel "Uri" Davis ( he, אוריאל "אורי" דייוויס , born 8 June 1943 in Jerusalem) is an academic and civil rights activist. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace ...

, 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 Isaak Tavior (Hebrew, יצחק תויאור) is a pianist, composer and conductor. He was born in Haifa, Israel on 18 September 1943 to Rosa and Avraham Vichodetz. Tavior was the recipient of the Prize for Creativity in the field of Zionism i ...

, 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 Ron Ben-Yishai ( he, רון בן-ישי; born October 26, 1943) is an Israeli journalist. A veteran war correspondent, Ben-Yishai has covered many military conflicts in several different regions. In 2018, he won the Israel Prize, Israel's most ...

, Israeli journalist * 8 November –

Boaz Davidson Boaz Davidson ( he, בועז דוידזון, ; born 8 November 1943) is an Israeli film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London at London Film School. Biography Davidson was ...

, Israeli film director, producer, and screenwriter * 22 November – Naomi Blumenthal, Israeli politician * 12 December – Hanan Porat, former Israeli politician (died 2011) * 18 December – Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, theater director, author and poet (died 1999) * ''Full date unknown'' **

Yekutiel Gershoni Yekutiel Gershoni ( he, יקותיאל גרשוני; 1943 – 14 July 2021) was an Israeli historian and paralympic champion. Gershoni was born in Rishon LeZion, Mandatory Palestine, in 1943. He began his military service in the Israel D ...

, Israeli historian and paralympic champion ** Dina Porat, Israeli historian ** Tanya Reinhart, Israeli linguist and peace activist (died 2007) ** Mubarak Awad, Palestinian Arab, Arab-American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

and political activist

Notable deaths

* 1 January – Arthur Ruppin (born 1876), German-born Zionist

Palestinian Jew Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians were the Jewish inhabitants of the Palestine region (known in Hebrew as ''Eretz Yisrael'', ) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The common term used to refer to the Jewish commun ...

ish leader * 14 October –

Shaul Tchernichovsky Shaul Tchernichovsky ( he, שאול טשרניחובסקי) or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky (russian: link=no, Саул Гутманович Черниховский; 20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is c ...

(born 1875), Russian-born

ish Hebrew poet {{DEFAULTSORT:1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

Years in Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine in World War II