Ownership of Land in Palestine By Religion in 1943 before Nakba, British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 566. Chapter XIV: Finance: Section 5: Ownership of Capital : Table 2

CHAPTER XlV. Table la (contd.).

Individual and company investments:

Arab owned

Jewish owned Other (incl. Arab).

Government investments:

Total assets :

Arab owned Jewish owned

Other (incl. Government, military, etc.).

£P. million I £P. million'
0.8
4.2
5.0
3.6 I 3.6
I
39.3
61.7
13.7 114.7 Table 2.

OWNERSHIP OF LAND IN PALESTINE.

Share of Jews and Arabs (including other non-Jews) as at 1st April, 1943.

Category of land (Fiscal categories)

Dun urns (1000 sq. metres)

Urban Citrus Bananas

Rural built-on area Plantations

Cereal land (taxable) Cereal land (not taxable) Uncultivable

Total area:

Roads, railways, rivers and lakes

Total including roads, railways, etc.

----

I Arab other Jews

non-Jews

Total

135,803 26,320,505

76,662 145,572 2,300 36,851 1,079,788 5,503,183 900,294 16,925,805

24.670,455

70,111 141,188 1,430 42,330 95,514 814,102 51,049 29~,523

146,773 286,760 3,730 79,181 1,175,302 6,317,285 951,343

17,224.32~

1,514.247

26,184,702

Rural and urban property tax payable on above land in 1942-43 £P.

Arabs Jews

Total

351,000 448,000

799,000

----

566