<P> Whereas recognition has thereby (i.e. by the Treaty of Sèvres) been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine, and to the grounds for reconstituting their National Home in that country...</P> <P> Article 4 of the Mandate provided for "the recognition of an appropriate Jewish agency as a public body for the purpose of advising and co-operating with the Administration of Palestine in such economic, social and other matters as may affect the establishment of the Jewish National Home and the interests of the Jewish population of Palestine," effectively establishing the Jewish Agency . </P> <P> The Vatican, the Italian, and the French governments continued to press their own legal claims on the basis of the former Protectorate of the Holy See and the French Protectorate of Jerusalem . The idea of an International Commission to resolve claims on the Holy Places had been formalised in Article 95 of the Treaty of Sèvres, and taken up again in article 14 of the Palestinian Mandate . Negotiations concerning the formation and the role of the commission were partly responsible for the delay in ratifying the mandate . The UK assumed responsibility for the Holy Places under Article 13 of the mandate . However, it never created the Commission on Holy Places to resolve the other claims in accordance with Article 14 of the mandate . </P> <P> The High Commissioner established the authority of the Orthodox Rabbinate over the members of the Jewish community and retained a modified version of the old Ottoman Millet system . Formal recognition was extended to eleven religious communities, which did not include the non-Orthodox Jewish or Protestant Christian denominations . </P>

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