THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR TOM and EVA ADELSON turn FIZIE 153V5 TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS THE CUTLERS' Arthur, Frances & Lena WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR ABE and SUE GERSHONOWICZ & JESSICA Trans-Oceanic Canal: Herzl's Dream Could Be Reality by 1990 By YITZHAK SHARGIL TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gal- loping oil prices, spurred by the Arab countries and others in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), have made feasible the plan for a canal from the Mediterra- nean to the Dead Sea envisioned by Theodor Herzl in his classic "Altneu- land." The $700 million plan ap- proved by the Cabinet is not as grandiose as that pro- posed by Herzl. It calls for a THE BOOKSTEINS Marvin, Gloria, Peggy & Lori Wishes Their Family and Friends A Happy & Healthy New Year MR. and MRS. NORMAN COTTLER THE COHENS' and THE KOTLYARS' wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace EVELYN and JACK MUNSON wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace LILLIAN and HARRY PAULL wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace Wishing all our friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year hydroelectric plant to be powered by the waterfall that would be created by the difference in the level of the Mediterranean coast and the Dead Sea area. But Herzl also saw the canal as a ship route to the Red Sea. In fact, Laurance Oliphant, the British non- Jew who promoted Jewish immigration after a visit to Palestine in 1879 and who himself later settled in Haifa, proposed such a canal as an alternate to the Suez Canal. Herzl's proposal was an adoption of a plan proposed earlier by Max Brochard, a Swiss engineer who later con- verted to Judaism. Al- though international politics rather than sci- ence prevented de- velopment of the plan, the canal has continued to be proposed over the years. In the 1950s, Prof. Walter Laudermilk, the American land conserva- tion expert, suggested building the canal. Israeli scientists also pro- posed the canal. But all pro- posals were rejected be- cause the cost was prohibi- tive. The price of oil was so cheap that the savings from a hydroelectric plant would not justify the cost of the canal. But now the situation has changed. In 1977, Prof. Yuval Ne'eman, a noted physicist who formerly was president of Tel Aviv University, was named head of a committee to consider several routes proposed for a canal. One plan proposed by Shlomo Gur, an engineer, and adopted by the late Yigal Allon, called for a route from Haifa to Beisan and then to the Dead Sea with an open canal along the Yisreal Valley. This plan would have helped im- plement the Allon Plan for Israeli security settlements in the Jordan Valley and was considered to be the least expensive route. But it was rejected because it would take too much land away from the fertile Yisreal Valley and would endanger Israel's limited water supply with salt water from the Mediterra- nean. Three southern routes were proposed. One from just south of Tel Aviv through Beit Shemesh to the northern Dead Sea area was also rejected for fear of polluting drinking water. A second plan, running from Zikkim near Ashdod to Arad and the Dead Sea near Masada, was also re- jected. The plan which was ap- proved runs from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip to Arad and Masada and then to the Dead Sea. It is 62 miles long, about six miles longer than the other route to Masada. Ne'eman, who is also head of the ultranationalist Tehiya faction, told the Cabinet that the route cho- sen was selected because it would have many byp- roducts in addition to the hydroelectric plant. He said the canal will provide spe- cial cooling lakes for the proposed nuclear power plant to be built in the Negev, there will be areas for sailing and fishing, and special pools could provide solar energy for the various factories along the canal, especially the Dead Sea's Potash Works. The power plant to be built would pro- vide 10 percent of Israel's electricity by the 1990s. Israel is expected to sound out Jordan before going ahead with the work but it will not ask for Jordan's ap- proval, it was stressed. Gur, the engineer whose north- ern route was rejected, has charged that the proposed canal route would raise the level of the Dead Sea so much that it would flood a plant on the Jordanian side of the sea. Ne'eman de- scribed this view as "non- sense" and said the canal would not cause the sea to go up that high. He said the Jordanians would benefit from the increased water level of the Dead Sea. The canal would take three years to design and twice that long to build. However, Haaretz has re- ported that Alvin Rosen- berg, a Toronto lawyer, has organized a consortium of Jewish and non-Jewish in- vestors from Canada, the United States, Britain and Israel, who are ready to in- vest in the project if they are given the concession to op- erate the hydroelectric plant. Rosenberg told the newspaper that the group was not only motivated by support for Israel but was convinced that the project is economically feasible. Friday, September 12, 1980 91t THE RADOMER AID SOCIETY Wish All .Their Members and Friends A Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year Nate Wolok, pres. Helen Greenberg, 2nd vice-pres. 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