THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 23, -1977 21 Mediterranean-Dead Sea Tunnel Nears Advanced Planning Stage • RAMAT-GAN—The gener- ation-old dream of con- structing a tunnel from the Mediterranean to the Dead ASIMMISIMIMOMMISObk. 111/ Rolex Ir Fredrick jewelers 869 West Long lake Road 646-0973 Sea for creating hydro- electric power is very likely 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- Ronald L. 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JAMES MOTYL for the practice of podiatry-foot surgery 24300 Orchard Lake Road -Farmington Hills, MI 48018 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. or D IV A SEND YOUR CAR TO ANY STAJE_ - I.C.C. License MC12 0 - 86. - 'pRIVEAWAY SERVIC 14713 Hingei at Michigan Av t P.O. BOX 1264 Dearbbrn, Mich. 48126 Tel. 584-5000 SINCERE THANKS To everyone for your "GET WELL" wishes while I was in the hospital. 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