Arab attacks on smaller Jewish communities: Metulla, Hammarah, Tel Hai

Trumpeldor dies defending Tel Hai settlement against Arab attack

Tel Hai becomes the symbol of Jewish resistance

Kfar Gileadi

(Apr 25) League of Nations authorizes Britain's authority over Palestine in post-WWI settlements.

Arab massacre inJerusalem during Passover (riot of 1920)

(Arabs) "We shall drink Jewish blood!"

Jabotinsky brings in Halperin as commander of "Haganah" in Jerusalem

Jabotinsky and 19 others of "Haganah" who defended Jerusalem in riot arrested and sentenced to Acre prison

Haganah (Hebrew Self Defense) replaces disbanded Hashomer after riots of 1920s, being made up of veterans of Jewish Legion (WWI) for defense of settlements and towns -

"Total commitment of entire population"

Eliahu Golomb

Dov Hos

Homsky (with Jewish defenders in Jerusalem riot)

Rosenberg (starts training school for Jewish defense)

Haganah begins transporting "illegally" Jews into "Palestine"

Haganah starts "Gdud Ha'avoda" (Labor and Defense Battalion)

Yitshaq Sadeh goes to Kfar Gileadi to instruct military students

Armory started in Kfar Gileadi to make weapons

Haj Amin el-Husseini appointed Mufti of Jerusalem - he incites riots for the next twenty years against Jews

(April 25) British allotted Mandate … Herbert Samuel High Commissioner

Ragheb-Bey Nashashibi appointed Mayor of Jerusalem

(June) Jabotinsky starts meetings to form organized unit to defend "yishuv"

Avraham Tehomi is Haganah commander in Jerusalem during

Arab attacks on settlements

Jews on police force down to 100

(May 21) Haycroft Commission

Supreme Moslem Council formed, with Husseini as President

Hashomer becomes an independent group from the Haganah

Kremin moves to Palestine at age 12

Ever since the 1920 riots, the most persistent slogan of the movement had been "Ad-dowiah ma'anah" - the Government is with us - whispered throughout the Arab coffee-houses and market-places. 

Arab nationalist leaders, headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem, who had been nurtured and inflated by deliberate British action, were repeatedly assured of Government goodwill. 

These gave point and direction to their incessant incitement of The Arab mass against the Jews.