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).

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