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);