Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

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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: mshrw` khrb rwtnbrG, romanized: Mashrue Kahraba' Rutenburgh, lit. 'Rutenberg Electricity Project'
), and the Dead Sea Concession is shown in the top right. Falastin newspaper front page 2 November 1932 on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.jpg
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.

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

Contents

List of Concessions

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

Bodies of water

Oil transport

Shipping infrastructure

Spas

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.
  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. 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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