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Events

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15 May – The Palmach is established.^[1]
14 July – World War II: The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (also known as the "Convention of Acre") is signed on at the "Sidney Smith Barracks" on the outskirts of the city of Acre, ending the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon.^[2]
2 November – The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established.^[3]

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Births

24 January – Dan Shechtman, Israeli physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
25 January – Ya'akov Shefi, Israeli politician
11 February – Avraham Hirschson, Israeli politician (died 2022)
13 March – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Arab poet and writer of prose (died 2008)
1 April – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist (died 2012)
1 April – Michael Dezer, Israeli-American real estate developer
5 April – Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, Israeli rabbi and Rishon LeTzion (died 2020)
8 April – Ya'akov Shahar, Israeli businessman
20 April – Ayala Procaccia, Israeli jurist, judge on the Israeli Supreme Court
22 April – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner (died 2009)
13 June – Esther Ofarim, Israeli folk singer
7 July – Yisrael Poliakov, Israeli singer, actor and entertainer (died 2007)
13 July – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality (died 2005)
19 August – Gabriela Shalev, Israeli jurist and diplomat
10 October – Hanan Goldblatt, Israeli actor
24 November – Joel Moses, Israeli-American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (died 2022)
5 September – Eitan Avitsur – Israeli composer and conductor
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- Ze'ev Herzog – Israeli archaeologist

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