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...quarter of its production-and has picked up another $15 million from tourism. Egyptian agronomists are soliciting Israeli help for advanced irrigation projects. President Anwar Sadat has offered a reciprocal arrangement for the future, to bring "the sweet waters of the Nile" across the Sinai to Israel's Negev desert...
Approached by road through the forbidding, dust-brown wastes of Israel's Negev desert, it does not look much like a prison. The buildings, flanked by two concrete watchtowers, are single-story and look like huts. At first glance, the place might be just another secret government installation. It is in fact a three-month-old, maximum-security prison located 70 km south ,of Beersheba. Until late last month hardly any Israeli or foreigner had heard of Nafha prison, which is designed to hold at full capacity 110 hard-core security offenders. But today Nafha is fast becoming...
Certainly many Jews are leaving because of the deteriorating Israeli economy. Triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing and unemployment have had a dispiriting effect on the young and ambitious. "Why should I stay?" asks a 20-year-old stationed at a military base in the Negev. "When I get out of here in another year, what do I have to look forward to? Will I be able to find an apartment? No. Can I get married? That's a bit unrealistic without a home. What job will pay me enough to live on?" Says Manny Ender...
Israel and South Africa do cooperate on certain military matters, perhaps including nuclear ones. But in this case, the denials from Jerusalem made sense. For one thing, Israel is capable of conducting its own nuclear tests in the Negev desert without South African help. For another, Israel's primary nuclear need would be for relatively small, "clean" weapons that could be tested underground within Israel's borders-and, indeed, probably have been...
...clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...