ABSTRACT
The term ‘landownership’ means more than simply ‘who owns the land,’ and in fact includes a number of processes — the first being the land laws. The Jewish Agency worked closely with the British Mandate Government to produce legislation that would legitimize Zionist land acquisition objectives. This chapter and the one that follows will therefore examine each step of the land tenure system. After breaking down the landownership system in Palestine and studying each aspect individually — particularly how it was formed, and the variables and actors involved — it will then be possible to analyze the implementation of the system on the ground through the case studies.
