British Commissioner Is Assassinated

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 Peel Commission that was formed in May 1936 to investigate the causes of the Palestinian rebellion, adopts its report.

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...

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.

The settlement is formed by the Zionist leadership as part of its Stockade and Watchtower strategy.

The Woodhead Commission 's report considers the Peel Commission ’s partition proposal and draws three possible plans (and maps).