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Deganya: Palestine’s oldest communal settlement, Deganya was founded in 1909 on the Sea - of Galilee. Malaria, which incapacitated half the pioneers, has been conquered and the fertile fields, irrigated with Jordan water, produce eight clover crops a year. Samakh: On the steep marl bank which holds back the waters of Galilee near the Jordan River outlet lies the small Arab town of Samakh. Through it runs the railway linking Haifa with Damascus and thereby with the great pilgrim road to Mecca. It is only a short distance from the Jewish settlement at Deganya. River Jordan:
Flowing roughly parallel to the Mediterranean coastline, the Jordan River has its beginnings on the slopes of snow-capped Mount Hermon, in the Anti-Lebanon range, and its course is along a great geological fault to the turgid depths of the Dead Sea. Called Esh Sheri'a (the Drinking Place) by the Arabs, its translation from Hebrew—the “ River That Goes Down ” —is equally apt for it flows hundreds of feet below sea level on its way to the Dead Sea. The most sacred stream in all Christendom, it is also one of the strangest and most forbidding.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26778, 22 May 1948, Page 7
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