Mandatory Palestine passport

s, as seen in this example from 1924. The issuing entity is given as "Palestine" in English, "" (Palestine) in Arabic, and "" (Palestine plus the acronym for 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: • 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". The wives of such people were also eligible from late 1924. • An emergency laissez-passer. ==Status of residents: 1925 law==

The status of Mandatory Palestine's citizenship was not legally defined until 1925. Mandatory Palestine's citizenship and the various means of obtaining it was defined in an Order in Council of 24 July 1925. Turkish subjects habitually resident in Palestine (excluding Transjordan) on the first day of August 1925 automatically became citizens unless they opted to reject it. Rights Palestinian citizens had the right of abode in Palestine, but were not British subjects, and were instead considered British protected persons. ==After 1948==

Mandatory Palestine passports ceased to be valid on the termination of the Mandate on 15 May 1948. Even so, in the early 1950s, United Nations officials described the "worn dog-eared Palestine passport issued in Mandate days by a government that no longer legally exists" as "mementos of identity that were treasured by refugees". Israeli, All-Palestine Government passports and Jordanian passports were offered to former British Mandate subjects according to the citizenship they acquired in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A significant number of Arab Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip and those who found refuge in Syria and Lebanon, remained stateless. ==See also==