Word: ashkelon
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...eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after the 1967 canal closing. Nonetheless Foreign Minister Yigal Allon conveyed "heartfelt and most sincere wishes to Egypt that the canal will indeed bear the hoped-for economic fruit." In his speech to the Knesset, Allon emphasized, however, that Israel expected its cargoes to move through...
...continue its trend toward less ideological policies. With more funds, it will be able to resist the blandishments of oil-soaked, militantly anti-American Libya, upon which it has been heavily dependent for aid. Indeed, the line might even attract some business from a competitor: the Israelis' Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. Still, the U.S. and Egypt are playing down the political possibilities. Egypt's government-controlled press has not even acknowledged that Bechtel and Kidder are American firms...
...expected to reach 5,000,000 by the year 2000, and there is not much space to move to. Jerusalem (pop. 291,000) can accommodate few more people, and the port city of Haifa (pop. 217,000) is equally crowded. From the Lebanese border town of Nahariya to Ashkelon in the south, Israel's coastline is becoming an urban sprawl much like the Boston-Washington metropolitan corridor. Israeli planners already refer to their emerging mini-Bos-Wash as NASH...
Said one Palestinian at the Shati refugee camp: "All I ask are equal rights and my home." A small landowner, he fled from Ashkelon during the 1948 war; 23 years later, he still considers Gaza a temporary abode. "If it is impossible for me to return to my land and to the graves of my family," he insists, "it is better for me to be thrown into...
...timing were significant. Petah-Tikva (Gate of Hope), settled by Russian immigrants in 1878, was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in modern Palestine. The rocketing, along with guerrilla forays elsewhere-a bazooka barrage on the Lebanese border, a skirmish on the Golan Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited the Yad Va'shem memorial to the 6,000,000 victims...