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]

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. Dagan, Peretz (1955). Pillars of Israel economy. I. Lipschitz. p. 76.
  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. Woodhead Commission report sections 370-373
  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.

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