Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Government and institutions== [[File:Barclays building Jerusalem 1939.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Jerusalem City Hall]], 1939]] Under the terms of the August 1922 Palestine Order in Council, the Mandate territory was divided into administrative regions known as [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|districts]] and were administered by the office of the [[High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan|British High Commissioner for Palestine]].<ref>[https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C7AAE196F41AA055052565F50054E656 The Palestine Order in Council, 10 August 1922, article 11] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916132453/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C7AAE196F41AA055052565F50054E656 |date=16 September 2014 }}: "The High Commissioner may, with the approval of a Secretary of State, by Proclamation divide Palestine into administrative divisions or districts in such manner and with such subdivisions as may be convenient for purposes of administration describing the boundaries thereof and assigning names thereto."</ref> Britain continued the ''[[Millet (Ottoman Empire)|millet]]'' system of the [[Ottoman Empire]] whereby all matters of a religious nature and personal status were within the jurisdiction of Muslim courts and the courts of other recognised religions, called [[confessional community|confessional communities]]. The High Commissioner established the Orthodox Rabbinate and retained a modified ''millet'' system which only recognised eleven religious communities: Muslims, Jews and nine Christian denominations (none of which were Christian Protestant churches). All those who were not members of these recognised communities were excluded from the ''millet'' arrangement. As a result, there was no possibility, for example, of marriages between confessional communities, and there were no civil marriages. Personal contacts between communities were nominal. Apart from the Religious Courts, the judicial system was modelled on the British one, having a High Court with appellate jurisdiction and the power of review over the Central Court and the Central Criminal Court. The five consecutive Chief Justices were: * [[Thomas Haycraft|Sir Thomas Haycraft]] (1921β1927){{sfn|Likhovski|2006|p=64}} * [[Michael McDonnell|Sir Michael McDonnell]] (1927β1936){{sfn|Likhovski|2006|p=64}} * [[Harry Trusted|Sir Harry Trusted]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/1936/10/27/archive/h-h-trusted-named-chief-justice-of-palestine|title=H.h. Trusted Named Chief Justice of Palestine|date=27 October 1936|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref> (1936β1941; knighted in 1938) (afterwards Chief Justice of the [[Federated Malay States]], 1941) * Frederick Gordon-Smith (1941β1944){{sfn|Likhovski|2006|p=74}} * [[William James Fitzgerald (jurist)|Sir William Fitzgerald]] (1944β1948){{sfn|Likhovski|2006|p=75}} The local newspaper ''[[The Palestine Post]]'' was founded in 1932 by [[Gershon Agron]]. In 1950, its name was changed to ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. In 1923, [[Pinhas Rutenberg]] founded the Palestine Electric Company (to become the [[Israel Electric Corporation]] in 1961). Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page