Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territories make "a very nice map to look at," observes Defense Minister Moshe Dayan with a smile-and with good reason. Far from overextending the Israeli army, the conquered lands have, in fact, shortened Israel's land borders and made them much easier to defend. Israel's new frontier with Jordan runs for 60 miles rather than 180 and, equally important, it runs along the Jordan River rather than through a twisting, tortured no man's land of hills and scrub. The old Negev Desert border stretched a porous 160 miles. With the addition of Sinai, Israel...
Gawking in Gaza. For Israel's civilian planners, the new territories that so please the army are wildly diverse in prospects and problems. Sinai is a vast empty space, valuable chiefly for the oil wells south of Suez, as a buffer against Egypt and an air route to the 14 tourist hotels at Elath. Syrian land, too, is largely deserted-abandoned by some 80,000 inhabitants who fled the Israeli advance. Gaza, however, constitutes a monumental nightmare, with its 330,000 Palestinian refugees in stucco and mud-hut camps, plus an impoverished civilian population of 100,000. And though...
...ordinary Israelis, hemmed in by hostile neighbors for 19 years, the new territories are already becoming festive tourist grounds. And Israeli officials make no secret of the fact that they expect the tourist travel to continue indefinitely. Israel's domestic airline, Arkia, runs two full-load sightseeing flights a day from Tel Aviv that swing out over the Sinai for a look at the ruins of Nasser's tank corps, set down at Elath for lunch, then circle back via the Dead Sea and an aerial view of reunited Jerusalem. By the tens of thousands, blue-capped tourists...
...Math. Not only tourists are scouting the new territories. In the past two weeks technicians from Israel's Ministry of Agriculture made an intensive survey of West Bank crops and recommended that Arab farmers switch some 15,000 acres of land now growing tomatoes, melons and watermelons to more profitable crops of cotton, tobacco, sesame and sorghum. The ministry will distribute free seeds to farmers for the fall plantings. Other experts are studying irrigation schemes for the Jordan valley. The government's Department of Antiquities will soon send teams of archaeologists fanning out through the new territories...
...among the rest of Gaza's populace. Significantly, Gaza road signs are being lettered in Hebrew as well as the existing Arabic, and all five major Israeli banks have opened branches in the strip. On Sept. 1, some 100,000 Gaza schoolchildren will enroll in schools administered by Israel. Used as Nasserite indoctrination centers in the past, the schools will be supplied with some of the 300,000 Arab-language textbooks newly printed by the Israelis at a cost of $1,600,000. Missing from them will be such arithmetic problems as the one in the former Egyptian text...