1940 in Mandatory Palestine

1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine

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See also:		1940 in the United Kingdom

Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Incumbents

The "Patria" sinking in the Haifa harbor, 25 November 1940

June - The right-wing Zionist armed underground paramilitary group "Lehi" (Hebrew acronym for Lohamei Herut Israel, meaning "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel") is established by Avraham Stern with the avowed aim of forcibly evicting the British authorities from Palestine, allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews - and the formation of a Jewish state.
9 September - World War II: The Italian Air Force bombs Tel Aviv causing 137 deaths.^[1]
25 November - Patria disaster: The Patria, a French-built ocean liner, carrying approximately 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine, sinks in the Haifa harbour after a bomb carried covertly on board by the Haganah explodes; 260 people are killed and another 172 were injured. The Haganah had planted the bomb with the intention of disabling the ship to prevent it from leaving Haifa, as the British were deporting the refugees, who did not possess entry permits. However, the Haganah had miscalculated the effects of the explosion and the bomb causes the ship to sink within fifteen minutes, trapping hundreds in the hold.
12 December - The MV Salvador, which carries approximately 327 Bulgarian Jewsish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine, is wrecked in a violent storm in the Sea of Marmora, near Istanbul. The ship sinks taking the lives of 204 passengers including 66 children. There were 123 survivors.

25 January - Avraham Lanir, the highest ranking Israeli fighter pilot to fall into enemy hands (died 1973)
25 January - Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (died 2011)
6 June - Asa Kasher, Israeli philosopher and linguist
13 June - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
17 July - Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Arab politician and senior member of PLO (died 2001)
24 August - Yaron London, Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter
23 October - Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008
24 October - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician
24 October - Dan Shilon, Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, TV host and media personality
18 November - Haim Harari, Israeli theoretical physicist
Full date unknown
- Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian Arab, intelligence chief of the Palestinian National Authority (died 2010)
- Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artist

4 August - Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born 1880), Russian (Ukraine)-born Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa

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↑ Maya Zamir, The Day of The bombing , Tel Aviv Magazine, 7 September 2007 (Hebrew)

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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