For completeness sake, we have also included statistically relevant data below from Justin McCarthy (an authority on Palestine's population), p. 90 & Statistical Abstract of Palestine 1944-45, p. 46-47. Here is how we have arrived that 1/4th of Jews in Palestine gained Palestinian citizenship. Justine reported that 100,602 Jews were citizens of Palestine as of 1931 (that included 18,766 naturalized plus those who were in Palestine when WWI ended), and if we added to them those who were naturalized in the period between 1932 and 1945, the total becomes 156,592, and that is 1/4th of the Jewish population in Palestine as of Nakba (which totaled around 630,000). If we divide 156,592 over the total number of citizens, we get 10% as follows: 0.156÷(1.4+0.156), here we have assumed that Palestinians were 1.4 million as of Nakba; the actual number was much higher because so many Bedouin tribes were not officially counted.
Please note that possessing dual citizenship is a recent phenomenon; it wasn't common before WWII. It seems that Jewish immigrants were hesitant to apply for Palestinian citizenship since that would've forced them to revoke their citizenship with the countries they emigrated from; which is understandable. It is a human instinct to do what is best for him or her first; nationalism comes way second. That said, this by itself is very telling since this phenomenon persists to this date, especially when you factor in that many Israeli Jews have been applying for a second passport in record numbers during peacetime:
Finally, we leave you with a 15 seconds short clip of Golda Meir (the Israeli PM in the early 1970s) articulating what citizenship and passport she used to carry before Nakba:
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50. The average time required for naturalization is two months and the fee is 500 mils.
51. The number of applications submitted and naturalization certificates delivered from 1st August, 1925 to 30th September, 1945 . are shown in the following table :-
Year Applications Certificates
submitted delivered
1925-1929 20,168 15,551
1931-1934 7,978 8,161
1935-1939 44 ,186 40,303
1940 8,118 8,727
1941 5,511 5,691
1942 4,768 4,979
1943 3,412 3,341
1944 3,229 3,169
1945 Jan-Sept. 2,635 1,428
inclusive
TOTAL 100,005 91,350 The total number of persons who acquired Palestinian citizenship by reason of the naturalization of husbands and fathers or mothers during the period August, 1925-September, 1945 was 132,616. * Complete statistics showing naturalization of non-Jews are not available. It is estimated that they represent approximately 1 % of the total.
Section 4.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
(a) Manner and volume,
TYPES OF MIGRATION.
52. Migration is of various kinds and may be described in the following classes :-
(i) Casual. These are minor movements between neighbouring villages. These movements are called casual, not because they are temporary or accidental-indeed, since marriage or the division of estates on death is the usual motive, they are often of permanent character-but because a change of residence from one place to another not far away does not appreciably affect the structure of the population within any of the administrative areas and does not, therefore, amount to migration in the ordinary acceptation of that term.
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* Includes the figure of 91,350 shown above under "certificates delivered"
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50. The average time required for naturalization is two months and the fee is 500 mils.
51. The number of applications submitted and naturalization certificates delivered from 1st August, 1925 to 30th September, 1945 . are shown in the following table :-
Year Applications Certificates
submitted delivered
1925-1929 20,168 15,551
1931-1934 7,978 8,161
1935-1939 44 ,186 40,303
1940 8,118 8,727
1941 5,511 5,691
1942 4,768 4,979
1943 3,412 3,341
1944 3,229 3,169
1945 Jan-Sept. 2,635 1,428
inclusive
TOTAL 100,005 91,350 The total number of persons who acquired Palestinian citizenship by reason of the naturalization of husbands and fathers or mothers during the period August, 1925-September, 1945 was 132,616. * Complete statistics showing naturalization of non-Jews are not available. It is estimated that they represent approximately 1 % of the total.
Section 4.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
(a) Manner and volume,
TYPES OF MIGRATION.
52. Migration is of various kinds and may be described in the following classes :-
(i) Casual. These are minor movements between neighbouring villages. These movements are called casual, not because they are temporary or accidental-indeed, since marriage or the division of estates on death is the usual motive, they are often of permanent character-but because a change of residence from one place to another not far away does not appreciably affect the structure of the population within any of the administrative areas and does not, therefore, amount to migration in the ordinary acceptation of that term.
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* Includes the figure of 91,350 shown above under "certificates delivered"
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