1936 in Mandatory Palestine

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem

  Events

• 19 April - Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on 15 April in Jaffa.
• 19 April - The call for a general strike in Nablus marks the beginning of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration.
• 23 April - With the commencement of the Arab revolt, the British authorities evacuate the Jewish community of Hebron as a precautionary measure to secure its members' safety, thus ending the Jewish presence of Hebron.
• 25 April - The Arab Higher Committee is established, on the initiative of the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, to oppose British rule and Jewish claims in Palestine.
• 10 December - The founding of the moshav Tel Amal which was the first of the tower and stockade settlement.

  Unknown dates

• The founding of the moshav Kfar Hittim
• The founding of the moshav Rishpon

  Notable births

• 1 January - Ofira Navon, Israeli psychologist and wife of President Yitzhak Navon
• 8 March - Ram Oren, Israeli author
• 19 March - Uri Aviram, Israeli professor of social work
• 23 March - Israel Eliraz, Israeli poet
• 9 April - Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian Arab writer, playwright and a leading member of the militant group PFLP
• 17 April - Daniel Friedmann, Israeli law professor and politician
• 18 April - Moshe Levi, Israeli general, 12th IDF Chief of General Staff
• 15 May - Ruth Almog, Israeli novelist
• 31 May - Zevulun Hammer, Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister
• 14 June - Avraham Shochat, Israeli politician
• 20 June - Amiram Barkai, Israeli biochemist
• 19 July - Nahum Stelmach, Israeli footballer and manager
• 19 July - Ran Ronen-Pekker, Israeli Air Force general and ace
• 31 July - Uzi Yairi, Israeli special forces officer, commander of the Sayeret Matkal commando unit
• 22 August - Nechama Hendel, Israeli singer, actress, guitarist and entertainer
• 4 September - Judea Pearl, Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher
• 11 September - Moshe Gershuni, Israeli painter and sculptor
• 7 October - Moshe Abeles, Israeli neuroscientist
• 16 October - David Glass, Israeli civil servant and politician
• 28 October - Joram Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
• 5 November - Amos Yudan, Israeli businessman
• 17 November - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet
• 27 November - Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Israeli educator and politician
• 27 November - Shlomo Aronson, Israeli landscape architect
• 27 November - Zaid al-Rifai, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• 3 December - Adam Zertal, Israeli archaeologist
• 19 December - A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
• 25 December - Masha Lubelsky, Israeli politician
• Full date unknown
• *Yoram Dinstein, Israeli legal scholar, law professor, and diplomat
• *Dov Tamari, Israeli general

  Notable deaths

• 23 September - Meir Dizengoff, Russian -born Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv