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]

List of Concessions

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

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 (the Palestine Land Development Company)

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).

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 reportsections 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.

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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