Word: negev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Israeli troops drove south across the Negev Desert seven years ago to seize an elevenmile coastline at the head of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, Elath was just a name on the edge of the barren red cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon...
...Auja, the sun-blasted crossroads on the rocky southern route which may have been Joseph, Mary and the Christ child's on their flight into Egypt. Since 1949 the 100-sq.-mi. demilitarized zone created under the U.N. armistice has bulged like a blister into Israel's Negev desert holdings. In recent weeks Canadian Major General Edson L.M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor., has repeatedly warned the Egyptians to stop putting up "check points" inside the zone. The Israelis chose this area to attack...
...procedure. In the new immigrant village of Ta'oz in the Judean hills, a fragile-boned Yemenite, who a year ago had been forced to step off the pavement of his native town if an Arab went by, cast the first vote of his life. Down in the Negev, the Bedouins in their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews not to take part in secular elections...
Thus, even as the Israelis rejoiced last week over their advance into the Negev, more sober officials realized that they had gone about as far south as they could go. In committing the Yarkon they had mortgaged almost their entire available water supply. (In fact, part of the annual 7 trillion cubic feet of water that will flow through the pipeline will be reclaimed from Tel Aviv's sewers...
Israel's only hope of getting enough water to irrigate the 125,000 dry acres remaining in the Negev is to find a way to end the political fight with Jordan, which has blocked use of Jordan River water...