Events in the year 1935 in the British Mandate of Palestine. Incumbents High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein Prime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem Events According to official statistics there were 61,854 Jewish immigrants during 1935. 4 January – The British open the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline, a major oil pipeline between the Mosul oil fields in Iraq and the Mediterranean port of Haifa in Palestine. 10 February – Nahariya is founded. April – Palestine Arab Party established. 2–10 April – 2nd Maccabiah Games are held in Tel Aviv, despite British opposition. 5–6 May – Renowned Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs in the Mugrabi Theater in Tel Aviv, continuing after to Jerusalem and Haifa. 23 June – Reform Party (Palestine) established. 16 October – Discovery of a Zionist arms shipment at the port of Jaffa leads to unrest throughout Palestine. 20 November – Sheikh Muhammad Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Sunni Islamic preacher and leader of the armed organization Black Hand which used violence against Jewish civilians and the British, is killed in a gunbattle with British police forces near Jenin. Unknown dates National Bloc (Palestine) established. Births 7 January – Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor (died 2018) 18 January – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister, ambassador to the United Nations, and Labor Party Knesset member (died 2007) 19 January – Ilan Amit, Israeli strategist, government adviser, and Mossad analyst (died 2013) 1 February – Ze'ev Almog, Israeli naval officer, former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy and manager of Israel Shipyards. 17 February – Uri Ilan, Israeli soldier who committed suicide in Syrian captivity, national hero in Israel (died 1955) 27 February – Yaakov Turner, Israeli politician, military officer, and police commander, mayor of Beersheba 24 March – Jacob Turkel, Israeli judge, former judge on the Supreme Court of Israel 26 March – Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority 29 March – Boaz Kofman, Israeli footballer and football manager 2 April – Uriel Lynn, Israeli lawyer and politician 8 April – Avi Primor, Israeli diplomat and publicist 15 June – Shimon Even, Israeli computer scientist (died 2004) 1 July – Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer and actor (died 2013) 5 July – Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and politician (in Poland) 13 July – Dan Almagor, Israeli playwright 9 September – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor 30 October – Avraham