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7100 ORCHARD LAKE RD.
at the end of Northwester Highway
WEST BLOOMFIELD
Rail And Sea
Network Planned
erusalem — Gaza and the
West Bank will have a ful-
ly integrated rail system
and seaport within three
years, provided donor nations ful-
fill their promises, said Mo-
hammed Jaradat, land transport
director-general of the Palestin-
ian Authority (PA) Transport
Ministry.
The PA plan is for the territo-
ries to become major links be-
tween Cairo, Haifa and Amman,
and to thereby become less de-
pendent on other Israeli ports for
international trade.
Mr. Jaradat welcomed Israel
National Infrastructure Minis-
ter Ariel Sharon's announcement
that rail service will be launched
from the port of Ashdod to the
Erez crossing point within a year.
`This is very important for trans-
port while we have no seaport in
Gaza," he said.
Despite Mr. Sharon's an-
nouncement, the PA believes the
sooner a port is built in Gaza, the
cheaper it will be to import and
export. Mr. Jaradat, in Egypt
last month, was informed of the
intention to operate a railway
from Cairo to Al Arish by next
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April. The Egyptian government
also confirmed it is constructing
a $400-million railway from Is-
mailiya to Rafah by 2000.
The trans-Palestinian route
would branch eastward from the
Ashkelon-to-Haifa line, entering
the West Bank at Kalkilya, con-
tinuing north to Tulkarm and
then east to Nablus, with a dry-
harbor located five miles west of
Nablus. A second line would be
operated from Haifa to Afula, on
to Jenin and leading eventually
into Jordan.
Once extended into Jordan,
the track could be linked to ex-
isting lines between Amman,
Zarka, Mafrak and Dara, on a
route which already connects to
Damascus.
If completed, the combined
railway extensions in Egypt, Is-
rael and Jordan will eventually
link Asia to Africa, with a possi-
ble future connection, via
Lebanon and Syria, into Europe.
The total cost for the PA as-
pects of the railway and seaport
is estimated at $156 million,
money the PA is requesting from
the donor nations.
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EVERYONE
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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EBRATION CONNECT
DIRECTORY
in our Classified Section
erusalem (JPFS)— Chica-
and
food
go-based
consumer product con-
glomerate Sara Lee has
formed a joint venture with
Migdal Ha'Emek-based Nilit for
the manufacture of POY yarns.
The companies refused to dis-
close the terms of the deal, but
said Sara Lee will not be involved
in the ownership of Nilit, which
will maintain a majority stake
in the new company, named S.N.
Fibers.
Sara Lee, which is engaged in
a broad range of different prod-
ucts, is considered the leading
manufacturer of women's hosiery
in the world.
The company, which has an-
nual sales exceeding $18 billion,
has already been involved in var-
ious ventures in the Israeli tex-
tile industry.
The new plant is situated on
the grounds of Nilit's existing fa-
cility in Migdal Ha'Emek in the
Galilee region, and its output is
intended to be purchased by Sara
Lee for processing.
Nilit is a manufacturer of ny-
lon yarn mainly for the women's
hosiery industry and a producer
of nylon polymer for the plastics
industry.
The company's sales exceed
$100 million per year, most of
which is exported.
In the United States, the com-
pany's pantyhose products are
represented by the L'Eggs,
Hanes and Donna Karan brands.
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