Concessions_in_Mandatory_Palestine

Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

Monopolies for the operation of key economic assets

The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of monopolies for the operation of key economic assets in Mandatory Palestine.[1][2]

Front page of the Arabic newspaper Falastin on the 15th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1932. The Jordan River Concession is shown in the top left corner of the cartoon (Arabic: مشروع كهرباء روتنبرغ, romanized: Mashrue Kahraba' Rutenburgh, lit. 'Rutenberg Electricity Project'), and the Dead Sea Concession is shown in the top right.

List of Concessions

The 1938 Woodhead Commission provided a list of the concessions granted:[3]

Bodies of water

Oil transport

Shipping infrastructure

  • Lighthouses (Administration Generale de Phares de Palestine);
  • Bonded Warehouses (Levant Bonded Warehouse Company);

Spas

  • the Tiberias Hot Baths (the Hamei Tiberia Company);
  • El Hamma Mineral Springs (Suleiman Bey Nassif);

References

  1. [1]
    Dagan, Peretz (1955). Pillars of Israel economy. I. Lipschitz. p. 76.
  2. [2]
    Smith, Barbara J. (1 July 1993). The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920-1929. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2578-0.
  3. [3]
    Woodhead Commission report sections 370-373
  4. [4]
    Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua (9 March 2020). The Making of Eretz Israel in the Modern Era: A Historical-Geographical Study (1799–1949). De Gruyter. pp. 365–. ISBN 978-3-11-062654-4.
  5. [5]
    W. P. N. Tyler. (1991). The Huleh Lands Issue in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-34. Middle Eastern Studies, 27(3), 343-373. Retrieved March 1, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283445
  6. [6]
    Forman, Geremy; Kedar, Alexandre (July 2003). "Colonialism, Colonization, and Land Law in Mandate Palestine: The Zor al-Zarqa and Barrat Qisarya Land Disputes in Historical Perspective" (PDF). Theoretical Inquiries in Law. 4 (2): 490-539. doi:10.2202/1565-3404.1074. S2CID 143607114.

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