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Monopolies for the operation of key economic assets
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]
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
^ 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 .
^ 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
^ 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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