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Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine. Incumbents- High Commissioner - Sir Harold MacMichael
- Emir of Transjordan - Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - Tawfik Abu al-Huda
Events{{Expand section|date=August 2010}}- 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 Jewish 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.
Notable births- 25 January - Avraham Lanir, Israeli fighter pilot, highest ranking Israeli Air Force pilot to fall into enemy hands (died 1973)
- 25 January - Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (died 2011)
- 26 February - Amos Kloner, Israeli archaeologist
- 29 February - Uri Milstein, Israeli historian
- 12 March - Eitan Haber, Israeli journalist
- 26 March - Haim Oron, Israeli politician
- 1 April - Amos Yaron, Israeli general
- 10 May - Zeidan Atashi, Druze Israeli politician and diplomat
- 29 May - Eliezer Shlomo Schick, Israeli Hasidic rabbi (died 2015)
- 6 June - Asa Kasher, Israeli philosopher and linguist
- 17 July - Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Arab politician and senior member of PLO (died 2001)
- 1 August - Ram Loevy, Israeli television director and screenwriter
- 24 August - Yaron London, Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter
- 3 October - Tamar Gozansky, Israeli politician
- 18 October - Uzi Even, Israeli scientist and politician, first openly gay member of the Knesset
- 20 October - Iftach Spector, Israeli fighter pilot
- 23 October - Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008
- 24 October - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
- 24 October - Dan Shilon, Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, TV host and media personality
- 18 November - Haim Harari, Israeli theoretical physicist
- 24 December - Shaul Amor, Israeli politician (died 2004)
- Full date unknown
- Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian Arab, intelligence chief of the Palestinian National Authority (died 2010)
- Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artist
- Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli war hero of the Yom Kippur War and protest leader
Notable deaths- 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
- 29 December - Dov Hoz (born 1894), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist leader, founding member of the Haganah, and aviation pioneer
References{{commons category|1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine}}1. ^Maya Zamir, The Day of The bombing {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112084944/http://www.tam.co.il/7_9_2007/magazin1.htm |date=12 January 2008 }} , Tel Aviv Magazine, 7 September 2007 (Hebrew)
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