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, romanizedMashrue 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

Bibliography