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Work Continues on Energy Canal
By YITZCHAK DINUR
World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM — The
Mediterranean Sea to Dead
Sea Canal Project sus-
pended some months ago by
the Israel government, is by
no means finished. Pre-
paratory work is still going
on.
The intention is to con-
nect the Mediterranean Sea
with the Dead Sea by canal
and tunnel and to utilize the
400-meter drop between the
two for generating electric-
ity hydraulically. This is
the largest civil engineer-
ing project to be seriously
considered since Israel's na-
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Dead Sea. An inverted
siphon will carry water
under the important Besor
River bed.
• Two reservoirs at the
Dead Sea end of the tunnel,
an upper storage reservoir
and a lower regulating re-
servoir.
• A hydro-electric station
near the Dead- Sea.
• A pressure pipe connect-
ing the regulating reservoir
and the power station's tur-
bines, which will generate
the electricity.
• An underground exit
pipe emptying into a canal
This model shows the stabilization reservoirs to the Dead Sea.
planned for the Negev end of the Mediterranean-Dead
The Israel government
Sea Canal.
authorized this project in
tional water carrier was Sea water would restore the
principle in 1981 and es-
built in the 1950s to bring level of the Dead Sea, which
tablished the
Jordan River water from has fallen by more than 10 Mediterranean-Dead Sea
the north of the country to meters since the national Canal Co. to implement it.
the south. Like that earlier water carrier began divert-
The project is practical,
project which utilized a ing water from the Jordan.
but there are a number of
natural body of water — the
The project will be able technical problems
Sea of Galilee — as a reser- to provide cooking sea which are still being
voir, this plan also imagina- water for nuclear power worked upon. Financing
tively plans to utilize the plants located inland, the estimated cost of $1.3
Dead Sea as a sink for the away from the sea shore; billion is the largest prob-
water from the Mediterra- and the canal and the lem.
nean.
associated storage reser-
The Israel Bond Organ-
The primary objective of voirs will enable the de-
ization sold special bonds to
the canal is to generate velopment of industry,
contribute to the funding,
quantities of electricity by tourist facilities and
most of which was supposed
having falling water oper- marine fish farming.
to come from the Israel gov-
ate turbines. A number of Industrial activity would ernment and international
secondary advantages add divert population from
financing bodies. Early in
to the proposal's attractive- the densely peopled cen-
1983, the Israel government
ness. In a couple of decades ter of Israel.
declared that it could not
the flow of Mediterranean
Last but not least, the find the money and sus-
lighter layer of Mediterra- pended the main program
nean Sea water floating on temporarily.
However, the project has
the denser Dead Sea water
will turn the entire Dead not been abandoned. Re-
Sea into a large solar pond cently, the Ministers of
which will also be able to Energy and of Finance have
agreed that planning and
produce electricity.
The project is to have six design work and investiga-
tive operations, such as trial
main components:
• A sea-water intake and ground-drilling, are to con-
pumping station on the tinue, and a trial tunnel will
Mediterranean coast at soon be started.
Notwithstanding finan-
Qatif.
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main waterway con- cial, political and technical
sisting of a subterranean difficulties, far-sighted Is-
pipeline seven kilometers raelis still believe that the
(4.3 miles) long from the in- Jewish state will yet have
take on the coast to the edge its Mediterranean Sea to
of the Gaza Strip, followed Dead Sea connection, with
by an open canal 22 all the advantages involved
kilometers (13 miles) long for the economic future.
and a tunnel 80 kilometers
(50 miles) long passing TAU Develops
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NEW YORK — The Is-
rael Aliya Center will spon-
sor a fact-finding pilot tour
of Israel March 12-26 for
North Americans in-
terested in exploring job op-
portunities in the Jewish
state.
The two-week trip will
give participants a chance
to meet individually with
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talk with professional coun-
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TEL AVIV — A new
method of detecting fetal
malformations by means of
a simple, inexpensive blood
test has been developed by
Prof. Hanoch Slor, chair-
man of the Department of
Human Genetics at Tel
Aviv University's Sackler
School. of Medicine.
The test enables diag-
nosis of congenital defects of
the spine and nervous sys-
tem known as NTDs
(Neural Tube Defects), sev-
eral gastro-intestinal disor-
ders, and a rare hereditary
kidney disease.
Based on the method
known as enzyme im-
munoassay (EIA), the test is
for Alpha-fetoprotein,
(AFP), a substance pro-
duced by the fetus. Certain
amountsorAFP in the am-
niotic fluid and maternal
blood are normal during
pregnancy, but elevated
levels may indicate fetal
malformations (or, in some
cases, a multiple preg-
nancy).
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