• Source: Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

    • The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of monopolies for the operation of key economic assets in Mandatory Palestine.


    List of Concessions


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


    = 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)
    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)
    the Kabbara Concession


    = 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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