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The Great Depression of the 1930’s deepened Arab discontent, and violence broke out again in 1936. The Peel Commission investigated the riots, and proposed that Palestine should be partitioned into separate Jewish and Arab states. This proposal only led to further violence.

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After the violence of 1929, thousands more Jews came to Palestine. The Jewish portions of cities grew, and many of the buildings built in the ’30’s can still be seen in Israel today. This prosperity, however, added to Arab resentment and violence would break out again.

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