20 Friday, July 4, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Eliot—Israel's Modern Port City Bustling With Tourists in part about the city in the Israel Digest: Ecept for the fact that it did not exist 27 years ago, Eilat hasn't changed much in 2,000 years. In King Solomon's day copper was mined at Timna; gold, ivory, apes and pea- cocks passed through the customs shed at the port: and jet-setters.— like th-e - Queen of Sheba — dazzled the local population with their large air-conditioned chariots and impressive ret- inues. Today, a few miles from Solomon's mine, the Eilat is a bustling town that attracts persons of all ages. Josh Barbarnel wrote HARVARD ROW MALL 24 Stores & Services 11 Mile & Lahser M LTER Of PO41.4116 IOW Designers of Fine Furs Complete Fur Service 11 MILE & LAHSER Phone: 358-0850 CARPET CLEANING SPECIAL! ANY SIZE • LIVING ROOM • DINING ROOM ALL 3 FOR • PLUS HALL CALL 757-0960 personnel are bonded & insured $39" T. domesticate. We Are Happy To Announce That MR. 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The tourism ministry has helped fill the once desolate plain along the shore with a complex-of ul- tra-modern hotels built in an incongruous combina- tion of shapes, sizes and colors costing more than 5U,000,000. Straight rows - of young palm trees, and aluminum poles topped with large white globes enhance the zany effect. Only the Bedouin camped on the beach in front of the Club Mediterranee seem to be out of step with the 21st Century. But as city officials like Zohar Ba•-Am, the plan- ning directdr, are quick to point out, the "infras- tructure" has not yet been completed. The hotels are connected by dirt fields that turn. to mud in the spring. Roads, drainage systems and much landscaping must Ad-treptzwe liracatioRs,iRe presents: THE CONCQRD . HOTEL August 10-15, 1975 Departs: Sunday $3099 ,°!=eon—double occupancy Returns: Friday your CONCORD "adventure" includes • Roundtrip coach airfare bet. 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Today Bar-Am, Municipal Secretary Yak- abovich and other city offi- cials are developing the plans that will turn Ben- Gurion's dream into fact. In 10 years, they expect th-e population of Eilat to grow to 60,000, depending on aliya, construction, and the overall economic situa- tion in Israel. Eilat — 145 miles from the nearest Is- raeli city — Will then be big enough to supply all its es- sential services from plumb- ing supplies to computer programming and serve as Temple U. Hebrew Courses Popular PHILADELPHIA (JTA) In contrast to the general decline in the "study of for- eign - languages among American college students, there has been a steady in- crease in the number of students at Temple Univer- sity taking courses in He brew, and in the number choosing Hebrew language and literature as their ma- jor fields, according to Dr. Hanoch Gay, acting chair- man of the university's He- brew department. He said there were cur- rently 220 students in var- ious courses in the depart- ment and 15 who have chosen Hebrew as their major. He compared the figures with those of the fall of 1971 where there were four He- brew majors and about 160 students taking such courses. 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He said he was satisfied that the Romanian authori- ties adhere to the principle of family re-unifiCation and said this humanitarian atti- tude has not changed. Eilat, a city of more than 20,000 persons, thrives on its booming shipping industry. The city boasts 20 hotels, clean beaches and sea water and a mining industry which produces more than 11,000 tons of copper cement per year. urban center for a string of agricultural and industrial communities to be devel- oped in the Negev and southern Sinai. Preliminary surveying for the-railroad that will make the development of the area possible should begin soon. But officials talk as if they can already smell the diesel fumes a hundred _miles and six years away at Oron. When the railroad finally arrives, it will cut the cost of shipping all kinds of goods — now hauled h large trucks across the rugged terrain — especially phos- phates from the Dead Sea Works destined for Africa. 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