dates The founding of the agricultural settlement Pardes Hanna by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association. The settlement is named after Hannah Rothschild, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild. The Zionist Commission renames itself as the Palestine Zionist Executive. Births 11 January – Rafael Eitan, eleventh chief of staff of the IDF (died 2004). 11 January – David Maimon, Israeli general, Military Governor of the Gaza Strip, President of the Military Court of Appeals, and head of the Israel Prison Service (died 2010). 3 March – Mordechai Eliyahu, Israeli rabbi, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (died 2010). 1 May – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer. 31 May – Menahem Golan, Israeli film director and producer (died 2014). 23 June – Simcha Dinitz, Israeli diplomat (died 2003). 2 July – Avraham Avigdorov, Israeli decorated war hero (died 2012). 10 July – Herzl Shafir, Israeli general and Commissioner General of the Israel Police. 25 July – Yosef Alon, Israeli pilot, founding member of the Israeli Air Force, and diplomat (died 1973). 5 August – Amikam Aharoni, Israeli physicist (died 2002). 22 August – Amnon Carmeli, Israeli footballer (died 1993). 22 August – Eliezer Schweid, writer and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (died 2022). 29 September – Yaakov Blau, Israeli rabbi, notable dayan and posek (died 2013). 21 November – Nahum Admoni, Israeli intelligence officer, former director general of the Mossad. 9 December – Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (died 2014). 12 December – Zaharira Harifai, Israeli actress (died 2013). 14 December – Shlomo Argov, Israeli diplomat (died 2003). Full date unknown Daniel Doron, Israeli economist and political activist. Ibrahim Dakkak, Palestinian Arab civil engineer. Deaths References Bibliography Comay, J and Cohn-Sherbok, L. (1995). Routledge Who's Who in Jewish history After the Period of the Old Testament. Routledge. Krämer, Gudrun (2008). A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel. Princeton University Press. Mattar, Philip (1988). The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. Columbia University Press. Segev, Tom (2000). One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate. Abacus. Shindler, Colin (2006). The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right. I B Tauris & Co Ltd. Palestine Years in Mandatory Palestine