Events in the year 1937 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 5 January – The founding of the kibbutz Sde Nahum by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as Jewish immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland. 31 January – The founding of the kibbutz Masada 25 February – The founding of the kibbutz Ginosar by a group of young socialists, on Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA) land that had been leased to settlement of Migdal. 21 March – The founding of the kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan by members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from Czechoslovakia and Poland. 9 April – The founding of the moshav Beit Yosef 13 April – The founding of the moshav Mishmar HaShlosha 20 May – The founding of moshav Kfar Shmaryahu by German Jews 30 June – The founding of the kibbutz Tirat Zvi as part of the tower and stockade settlement enterprise. The founders were Jews from Poland, Romania and Germany. 4 July – The founding of the moshav B'nai B'rith 5 July – The founding of the kibbutz Ein HaShofet 6 July – The founding of the kibbutz Ein Gev 6 July – The founding of the moshav Tzur Moshe 7 July – The Peel Commission publishes a report that recommends the end of the Palestine mandate and its partition into separate Arab and Jewish states. 13 September – The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Szold 26 September – The British District Commissioner for the Galilee Lewis Yelland Andrews is assassinated in Nazareth by a gang of armed Arabs. His assassination was considered to represent the apex of the great Arab revolt in Palestine. Andrews's murder causes Britain to respond by outlawing the Arab Higher Committee. 1 October – Following the assassination of the British District Commissioner for the Galilee, the British authorities ban all Arab nationalist political organisations and arrests members of the Arab Higher Committee. Four of whom are deported to the Seychelles. Haj Amin al-Husseini and Jamal al-Husseini avoid arrest and leave the country. 9 November – The founding of the kibbutz Usha as a tower and stockade settlement by a Polish gar'in group. Births 5 January – Dan Tichon, former Israeli politician 20 January - Haim Hazan, Israeli