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

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 (the Palestine Land Development Company)

Oil transport

the Transit of Mineral Oils through Palestine and the Establishment of an Oil Refinery at Haifa (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) ;
the Transit of Mineral Oils through Palestine (the Iraq Petroleum Company).

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

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

Bibliography

Saʼid B. Himadeh, 1938, Economic Organization Of Palestine
Gradus, Yehuda; Krakover, Shaul; Razin, Eran (10 April 2006). The Industrial Geography of Israel. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-97632-4.

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[Dagan1955-1] Dagan, Peretz (1955). Pillars of Israel economy. I. Lipschitz. p. 76.

[Smith1993-2] 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

[Ben-Arieh2020-4] 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.