The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of monopolies for the operation of key economic assets in Mandatory Palestine.[1][2]
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 (first novated to the Syro-Ottoman Agricultural Company, then in 1934 transferred to the Palestine Land Development Company)[5]
- the Kabbara Concession[6]
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
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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