Concessions in Mandatory Palestine

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

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.

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);

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.