Concessions in Mandatory Palestine
{{Short description|Monopolies for the operation of key economic assets}}
File:Falastin newspaper front page 2 November 1932 on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.jpg 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 ({{langx|ar|مشروع كهرباء روتنبرغ|translit=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.{{cite book|last=Dagan|first=Peretz|title=Pillars of Israel economy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nN7sAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=I. Lipschitz|page=76}}{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Barbara J.|title=The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dEm8hueO88QC&pg=PA125|date=1 July 1993|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2578-0}}
List of Concessions
The 1938 Woodhead Commission provided a list of the concessions granted:[https://archive.org/details/WoodheadCommission/page/n176/mode/1up Woodhead Commission report] sections 370-373
=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){{cite book|last=Ben-Arieh|first=Yehoshua|title=The Making of Eretz Israel in the Modern Era: A Historical-Geographical Study (1799–1949)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlXVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT365|date=9 March 2020|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-062654-4|pages=365–}}
- 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)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
- the Kabbara Concession{{cite journal |last1=Forman |first1=Geremy |last2=Kedar |first2=Alexandre |title=Colonialism, Colonization, and Land Law in Mandate Palestine: The Zor al-Zarqa and Barrat Qisarya Land Disputes in Historical Perspective |journal=Theoretical Inquiries in Law |date=July 2003 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=490-539 |doi=10.2202/1565-3404.1074 |s2cid=143607114 |url=https://law.haifa.ac.il/images/documents/ColonialismColonizationLand.pdf}}
=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
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Bibliography
- Saʼid B. Himadeh, 1938, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123511/page/n91/mode/2up/search/concession Economic Organization Of Palestine]
- {{cite book|last1=Gradus|first1=Yehuda|last2=Krakover|first2=Shaul|last3=Razin|first3=Eran|title=The Industrial Geography of Israel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nKIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT54|date=10 April 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-97632-4}}