ABSTRACT
In less than a century, beginning with the reforms of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 and ending with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, landownership in modern Palestine was completely revolutionized. The most substantial part of this transformation took place under the British Mandate administration, since it was during that period that the land tenure system was used by Zionist actors to fulfill another purpose — the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine through the means of a colonial-settler movement. The question posed in this book was whether the British Mandate land tenure system in Palestine facilitated the transfer of land from Palestinians to Zionist Jews, and if it did, to what extent?
