Word: balah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighteen Israeli government agencies have just started work on an ambitious program to raise the standard of living to that of surrounding Israeli farm settlements. Israeli engineers are busy paving dusty streets, repairing broken-down harbor jetties, and surveying the ancient towns of Khan Yunis, Rafa and Deir el Balah for their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start soon on bringing water from the Yarkon-Negev pipeline to irrigate the first 2,500 acres of citrus...
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