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Arabah
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Arabah or Araba (both: ä`räbä, ăr`əbə), depression, on the Israel-Jordan border, extending c.100 mi (160 km) from the Dead Sea S to the Gulf of Aqaba; part of the Great Rift Valley complex. Limestone, salt, and potash are mined near the Dead Sea. In the Old Testament, Arabah is variously called a wilderness, a plain, and a desert. It is sometimes spelled Aravah.


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Proponents of the scheme imagine a Dubai-style project that would restore the Dead Sea, generate electric power and fresh water, transform the arid Arava valley into a flourishing metropolis, and bring about peace in the Middle East.
Preliminary results from an equine seroprevalence study (involving 800 horses over a 3-year period) of virus neutralization antibodies to WNV collected during fall 2002, indicate that most horses sampled in Israel's Arava Valley (a desert in the Syrian-African Rift near the Jordanian and Egyptian borders) and the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat (30[degrees]59'N, 35[degrees]18'E to 29[degrees]34'N, 34[degrees]57'E) (85%, 79/90) were positive (A.
Timna Park, in the Arava Valley, is a rocky desert, just a 20-minute drive from Eilat.
 
 
 
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