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The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of
Economic Organization Of Palestine
* {{cite book, last1=Gradus, first1=Yehuda, last2=Krakover, first2=Shaul, last3=Razin, first3=Eran, title=The Industrial Geography of Israel, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nKIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT54, date=10 April 2006, publisher=Routledge, isbn=978-1-134-97632-4 Mandatory Palestine Former monopolies
The Concessions in Mandatory Palestine were a number of monopolies
A monopoly (from Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a speci ...
for the operation of key economic assets in Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
.
List of Concessions
The 1938Woodhead Commission
The Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission''Palestine Partition Commission Report'', Command Paper 5854, Printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1938 (310 pages and 13 maps)) was a British techn ...
provided a list of the concessions granted:
Bodies of water
* the Dead Sea Concession (Moshe Novomeysky
Moshe Novomeysky ( he, משה נובומייסקי, russian: Моисей Абрамович Новомейский; November 25, 1873 – March 27, 1961) was an Israeli engineer and businessman. He was an early developer of the Palestine Potash C ...
's Palestine Potash Company
The Dead Sea Works ( he, מפעלי ים המלח, ''Mif'alei Yam HaMelakh'') is an Israeli potash plant in Sdom, on the Dead Sea coast of Israel.
History
Under the British administration, concessions from the Mandatory government were given ...
)
* the Jordan River Concession (Pinhas Rutenberg
Pinhas Rutenberg (russian: Пётр Моисеевич Рутенберг, Pyotr Moiseyevich Rutenberg; he, פנחס רוטנברג: 5 February 1879 – 3 January 1942) was a Russian Jewish engineer, businessman, and political activist. He pla ...
's Palestine Electric Corporation
Israel Electric Corporation ( he, חברת החשמל לישראל, abbreviation: IEC) is the largest supplier of electrical power in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The IEC builds, maintains, and operates power generation stations, sub- ...
and the First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House
The First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House, also known as the Rutenberg Power Station or the Naharayim Power Plant or the Tel Or Power Plant, was a conventional dammed hydroelectric power station on the Jordan river, which operated between 19 ...
)
* the Jerusalem Electric and Public Service Corporation (Euripides Mavrommatis; sold to Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty plc () is an international infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments. A constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, Balfour Beatty works acr ...
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 Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia (Iran). The British government purchased 51% of the company in 1914, gaining a controlling number ...
) ;
* the Transit of Mineral Oils through Palestine (the Iraq Petroleum Company
The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and 1961. It is jointly owned by some of the worl ...
).
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, 1938Economic Organization Of Palestine
* {{cite book, last1=Gradus, first1=Yehuda, last2=Krakover, first2=Shaul, last3=Razin, first3=Eran, title=The Industrial Geography of Israel, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nKIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT54, date=10 April 2006, publisher=Routledge, isbn=978-1-134-97632-4 Mandatory Palestine Former monopolies