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by null_deref 1932 days ago
Most of the Israeli population doesn't live in the desert.
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dagav 1932 days ago
More than half of Israel's land area is desert. It's quite hard to develop a nation in the desert.
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rowanseymour 1932 days ago
It's also part of mythology of Israel that it was built on an empty wasteland, and not on the ashes of Palestinian villages and farms.
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SuperCuber 1932 days ago
Yep. Population density map: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/maps/isr... almost all the population lives near the sea.
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mam2 1932 days ago
the point was "with not so much natural ressources"
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