Mandatory Palestine passport

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Mandatory Palestine passport
The front cover of a Mandatory Palestine passport.
TypePassport
Issued by British Mandate for Palestine
PurposeIdentification

Mandatory Palestine passports were

Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925. From 1926 to 1935 alone approximately 70,000 of such travel documents were issued.[1]

Before 1925 citizenship law

Eretz Yisrael
) in Hebrew.

Before the citizenship law of 1925, the Government of Palestine issued British passports to those with British nationality, and two types of travel document to others:

  1. A Provisional Certificate of Palestinian Nationality was available to persons who had indicated their intention to become Mandatory Palestine's citizens and live in Palestine, provided they were born in Palestine, their father was born in Palestine, or they were an "ex-Russian subject who compulsorily acquired Ottoman nationality in Palestine during the recent war".[2] The wives of such people were also eligible from late 1924.[3]
  2. An emergency
    laissez-passer.[2] An ordinance allowing the High Commissioner to issue passports to Mandatory Palestine's citizens was promulgated soon afterwards.[4]

Status of residents: 1925 law

The status of Mandatory Palestine's citizenship was not legally defined until 1925.[5] Mandatory Palestine's citizenship and the various means of obtaining it was defined in an Order in Council of 24 July 1925.[5][6]

Turkish subjects habitually resident in Palestine (excluding Transjordan) on the first day of August 1925 automatically became citizens unless they opted to reject it.

High Commissioner.[6]

Palestinian natives living abroad were given two years to apply for Palestinian citizenship, but the High Commissioner soon reduced this to about one year, creating a class of stateless persons who had lost their Ottoman citizenship but were unable to obtain Palestinian citizenship.[5]

Although the nature of Mandatory Palestine's citizenship had been debated within the British government since 1920, the main reason it was delayed was that Turkish citizens were officially enemy aliens until the Treaty of Lausanne was ratified in 1923.[7]

Rights

Palestinian citizens had the right of abode in Palestine, but were not British subjects, and were instead considered British protected persons.[8]

After 1948

Mandatory Palestine passports ceased to be valid on the termination of the Mandate on 15 May 1948.

stateless.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-90-04-16984-5
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  2. ^ a b Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, No. 116, 1 June 1924, pp. 690–692.
  3. ^ Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, No. 127, 15 November 1924, pp. 908–909.
  4. ^ Text: Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, No. 153, 16 November 1924, pp. 564–566. Promulgation: Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, No. 151, 16 December 1924, p. 626.
  5. ^ a b c d Mutaz Qafisheh (2010). "Genesis of Citizenship in Palestine and Israel". Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (21).
  6. ^ a b c Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, No. 147, 16 September 1925, pp. 460–466.
  7. ^ Lauren E. Banko (2011). "The Legislative Creation of Palestinian Citizenship: Discourses in the Early Mandate Period". International Journal for Arab Studies. 2 (2): 1–32.
  8. JSTOR 754593
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  9. ISBN 9780876091944
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  10. ISSN 1471-6925
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