1943 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine .
Incumbents
Events
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(August 2010 )
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 (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 , 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 , 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 (died 2011)
18 December – Hanoch Levin , Israeli playwright, theater director, author and poet (died 1999)
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Notable deaths