The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of monopolies for the operation of key economic assets in Mandatory Palestine.[1][2]
List of Concessions
The 1938 Woodhead Commission provided a list of the concessions granted:[3]
Bodies of water
- the Dead Sea Concession (Moshe Novomeysky's Palestine Potash Company)
- the Jordan River Concession (Pinhas Rutenberg's Palestine Electric Corporation and the First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House)
- the Jerusalem Electric and Public Service Corporation (Euripides Mavrommatis; sold to Balfour Beatty in 1928)[4]
- the Auja Concession (the Palestine Electric Corporation)
Bibliography
- Saʼid B. Himadeh, 1938, Economic Organization Of Palestine
References
- Peretz Dagan. Pillars of Israel economy I. Lipschitz, 1955^
- Barbara J. Smith. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920-1929 Syracuse University Press, 1 July 1993^
- Woodhead Commission report sections 370-373^