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==Government and institutions==
[[File:Barclays building Jerusalem 1939.JPG|thumb|right|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 administer 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]] (1921–1927)<ref name= Lik64>{{cite book|title=Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine|first= Assaf|last = Likhovski|page=64}}</ref>
*[[Michael McDonnell]] (1927–1936)<ref name= Lik64/>
*[[Harry Herbert 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|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|accessdate= 18 November 2015}}</ref> (1936–1941) (afterwards [[Federated Malay States|Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States]], 1941)
*Frederick Gordon-Smith (1941–1944)<ref>{{cite book|title=Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine|first= Assaf|last = LikHovski|page=74}}</ref>
*[[William James Fitzgerald (jurist)|William James Fitzgerald]] (1944–1948 <ref>{{cite book|title=Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine|first= Assaf|last = LikHovski|page=75}}</ref>
==Økonomi==
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