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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

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

Bodies of water

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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

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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

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Lighthouses (Administration Generale de Phares de Palestine);
Bonded Warehouses (Levant Bonded Warehouse Company);

Spas

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the Tiberias Hot Baths (the Hamei Tiberia Company);
El Hamma Mineral Springs (Suleiman Bey Nassif);

References

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^ 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.

Bibliography

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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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