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In the 1950s, Eilat was a small, isolated frontier settlement on Israel’s southernmost tip, developing into a town only in the 1960s. After the peace accords with Egypt, it was once again Israel’s only outlet to the Red Sea, and hotel tourism followed apace. Eilat in 2012

Eilat’s Treasures

Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored...

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