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Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

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)
  • the drainage of Lake Huleh and the adjacent marshes (first novated to the Syro-Ottoman Agricultural Company, then in 1934 transferred to the Palestine Land Development Company)[5]
  • the Kabbara Concession[6]

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);

Bibliography

References

  1. Peretz Dagan. Pillars of Israel economy I. Lipschitz, 1955^
  2. Barbara J. Smith. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920-1929 Syracuse University Press, 1 July 1993^
  3. Woodhead Commission report sections 370-373^
  4. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh. The Making of Eretz Israel in the Modern Era: A Historical-Geographical Study (1799–1949) De Gruyter, 9 March 2020^
  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. Geremy Forman, Alexandre Kedar. Colonialism, Colonization, and Land Law in Mandate Palestine: The Zor al-Zarqa and Barrat Qisarya Land Disputes in Historical Perspective Theoretical Inquiries in Law, July 2003^