1927 in Mandatory Palestine

1927 in the British Mandate of Palestine

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See also:		1927 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1927

Events in the year 1927 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

1 April – The Hashomer Hatzair kibbutzim federate into the Kibbutz Artzi movement.
7 May - General Allenby lays the foundation stone of St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem
11 July – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurs in the regions of Palestine and Transjordan, killing an estimated 500 people. The effects are especially severe in Jerusalem and Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many other areas, including parts of Transjordan, in particular the town of Salt.
1 November - The Palestine pound, the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine between 1927 and 1948, goes into circulation.

A house in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem which was completely destroyed during the 1927 Jericho earthquake
A destroyed house in the Mount of Olives, 1927
The destroyed "Winter Palace" Hotel in Jericho, 1927

The founding of the kibbutz Beit Zera.
The founding of the kibbutz Ein Shemer.
The founding of the kibbutz Shefayim.
The founding of the moshav Hadar, one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon.

16 January - Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, Samaritan High Priest 2004–2010 (died 2010).
2 May - Amos Kenan, Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist (died 2009).
16 June - Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli football goalkeeper (died 2006).
5 October - Meir Feinstein, Irgun fighter and one of the Olei Hagardom (died 1947).
Full date unknown
- Said al-Muragha, Palestinian Arab, former member of the PLO and founder of the Fatah Uprising group.
- Daud Turki, Israeli Arab Communist poet and political activist, convicted of treason after it was discovered that he headed an extensive espionage and sabotage organization. (died 2009)

2 January - Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'am) (born 1856), Russian (Ukraine)-born Hebrew essayist and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers, known as the founder of Cultural Zionism.

Years in Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)

1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948

1930s	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1920s	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

British-administered Palestine (pre-Mandate)	1918 1919 1920

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