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    Jerusalem Post
    Jan 19 2005

    On this Day

    On this day
    By ALEXANDER ZVIELLI


    50 years ago:
    On January 19, 1955, The Jerusalem Post reported that finance
    minister Levi Eshkol announced far-reaching, further incentives for
    foreign investors.

    Israel told the UN that it would not accept any solution to the
    question of the Bat Galim vessel, impounded by Egypt, that would not
    provide for the ship to proceed through the Suez Canal to Haifa.

    Israel also drew the UN's attention to the continued Syrian attempts
    to arrogate to itself, by force, rights in the Demilitarized Zones to
    which Syria was not entitled. This was also the reason Israel turned
    down the suggestion, made by general Burns, chief of staff of the
    Truce Supervision Organization, to partition the Demilitarized Zone
    into two administrative areas. Israel held that it had exclusive
    rights in these areas under the relevant pasages of the Armistice
    Agreements. (All such disputes referred to the pre-1967 armistice
    lines.)

    350 Armenians crossed into the Jordanian-occupied Old City of
    Jerusalem and Bethlehem to celebrate their Christmas (across the
    pre-1967 armistice lines).

    The Kibbutz Dati refused to join the merger of the Mizrahi and Hapoel
    Hamizrahi movements.

    The percentage of locally mined clay used by the Israeli ceramic
    industry had risen from less than 30% in 1951 to 80% in 1954.
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