THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 23, -1977 21
Mediterranean-Dead Sea Tunnel Nears Advanced Planning
Stage
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RAMAT-GAN—The gener-
ation-old dream of con-
structing a tunnel from the
Mediterranean to the Dead
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to become a reality in the
coming decade. This is the
consensus of Israeli govern-
ment officials and numer-
ous experts now working on
the advanced planning
stages of the giant project.
• The optimism followed
the Israeli government's re-
cent decision to accept the
recommendation of a panel
of experts to proceed with
the basic planning for the
project. The panel, headed
by Prof. Shlomo Eckstein,
of the economics depart-
ment at Bar-Han Univer-
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sity, felt that the project
for other industries in the
had become worthwhile fol- Negev desert and possibly
lowing the skyrocketing
for creating artificial lakes
costs of oil.
along the way for tourism
As a result a larger and maritime agriculture.
panel, now augmented with A group of experts has al-
other experts, is in the ready met and is likely to
midst of an intensive geolog- recommend creating salt-
ical and hydrological 'sur- water ponds for growing
vey to determine the best fish.
route foF the tunnel, as well
The water in transit may
as feasibility studies on its also be used for cooling
vast water supply. The en- other electric generating
tire project is under the su- plants, for flushing out mu-
pervision of the office of nicipal and industrial
the chief scientist in the wastes, and for distillation
Ministry of Commerce and for inland irrigation proj-
Industry.
ects and other sweet-water
According to the original
uses.
recommendation the tunnel
Another side benefit of
would extend for some 50
the project which will in-
miles from the Mediterra-
crease its overall profit-
nean coast, between the
ability, notes Prof. Eck-
towns of Ashdod and Ashke-
stein, is the fact that it will
lon, to the northern part of
replenish the quickly evapo-
the Dead Sea, (the lowest rating waters of the south-
spot on earth) where a
ern part Of the Dead Sea.
1,280-foot drop would make
This is vital for the contin-
it possible to generate 800
ued prosperity of the Dead
million kilowatt-hours of
Sea Works which is finding
electricity, enough to satis-
it increasingly expensive to
fy about 15 percent of Is-
expand its drying pans for
rael's peak demand 10 the extraction of potash,
'years from now.
bromine. and other com-
The project's total cost of mercially valuable miner-
some $250 to $300 million,
als.
says Prof. Eckstein, makes
The hydroelectric project
it economically feasible will pour some one billion
since the same amount of cubic meters of water into
electric power generated by the Dead Sea annually, thus
fuel-oil or atomic energy balancing off the present
would cost more per unit.
loss of about one foot a
Furthermore, hydroelectric
year in the water level.
power can be used more ef- This loss is caused mainly
ficiently, he points out,
by pumping out of water
since with the aid of large for irrigation purposes from
water reservoirs, it can be
the Sea of Galilee in the
efficiently turned on and off north which is the source of
to accommodate peak de- the Jordan River waters
mand periods, something that replenish the , Dead
which is more costly to do Sea.
with conventional or atomic
The possibility of over-
power plants.
"flooding the Dead Sea is the
With small additional in- _ only factor which limits the
vestments the project can quantity of water pouring in
provide such other benefits and thus limits also the hy-
as : the supply' of much droelectric plant's gener-
needed sea water for the ating capacity.
Dead Sea Chemical Works, _
Some of the other side
Dayan and Eban?
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Polit-
ical sources believe Israel
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan is trying to convince
former Foreign Minister
Abba Eban to leave the
Labor coalition in the Knes-
set to join him as a two-man
faction within Likud.
The sources believe that it
was Dayan who convinced
Eban to represent the Likud
government on a recent
two-week visit to the U.S.
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