Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Lebanese-born Fawzi al-Qawuqji (an officer in the Iraqi army) and 150 volunteers from surrounding Arab countries enter Palestine to aid the rebellion against the British.

As if the powers vested in the High Commissioner by the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931, were not sufficient to quell the Palestinian Rebellion, the King's Privy Council in London adopts...

The AHC agrees to call off the general strike and to appear before the Peel Commission following intervention by the kings of Saudi Arabia and Iraq and the Emir of Transjordan.

A group of Zionists in the Baysan region devise a plan to establish a fortified settlement that consists of barracks protected by wooden walls and an observation tower; they plan to position and...

The new criminal code of 1936 technically replaces the Ottoman Penal Code, which, though heavily amended by British ordinances, had officially served as the basis for adjudicating criminal offences in...

The AHC rejects the Peel Commission ’s partition proposal and demands an independent unitary Palestinian state "with protection of all legitimate Jewish and other minority rights and the...

Lewis Andrews, the British Commissioner in Galilee, is assassinated by Palestinian militants.

Charles Tegart, the newly appointed adviser on police matters, arrives in Palestine.

Pushed by the Foreign Office, the British administration resolves to send a technical commission of inquiry (the Palestine Partition Commission ) to study the feasibility of partition as recommended...

The British authorities open the museum in a new building situated in Jerusalem opposite to the northeastern corner of the Old City wall; it is constructed with funds donated by US oil magnate John D.