Israel has an ambitious proposal to construct a 160-mile canal which would connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, traversing the Negev Desert and the south end of the Gulf of Aqaba. Such a waterway, tentatively named the Ben-Gurion Canal, would bypass the Suez Canal and challenge Egypt’s long-standing monopoly of the crucial shipping route between Europe and Asia. The proposed canal would begin at the Israeli port city of Eilat on the Red Sea, cross the Jordanian border, flow through the Arab
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2025-01-04 00:00:00.0