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APPENDIX A
TERRAIN AND CLIMATE
1. General.
Climatically, Palestine can be divided into
As Israel's frontiers have not yet been finally
three regions: (1) a Mediterranean climatic
delimited, the entire area of Palestine is COV-
zone north and west of a line connecting the
towns of Gaza and Hebron in the south and
ered for the purposes of this section. At
present Israel occupies approximately 8,000
Samakh at the lower end of Lake Tiberias;
square miles, or about 80 percent of Palestine.
(2) a narrow belt of steppe climate, which
Jordan controls most of Judea and Samaria,
borders the Mediterranean climatic zone on
and Egypt controls a narrow coastal strip from
the south and east; and (3) an extensive area
Gaza to the Egyptian frontier. In the west-
of desert climate, which includes the rift valley
1-
ern Negeb, a small area around El Auja is
south of Wädi el Far'a and nearly all of the
n
neutral territory by the terms of the Egyptian-
Negeb.
Israeli armistice agreement.
Drainage in Palestine is from the central
e
Palestine is located at the eastern end of
highlands westward to the Mediterranean Sea
the Mediterranean Sea. To the north of Pal-
and eastward to Lake Hule, Lake Tiberias,
estine is Lebanon, to the south, Egypt, and to
the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea. In gen-
the east, Syria and Jordan. The area ex-
eral, the streams are perennial north of an
tends approximately 250 miles from north to
east-west line through Jaffa and intermittent
south, through nearly four degrees of latitude.
south of that line. In addition, intermittent
The breadth varies from about 30 miles in the
streams drain from the highlands southward,
north to more than 70 miles in the south.
only to disappear in the sands of the Negeb
The total area is 10,429 square miles, of which
without reaching a permanent body of water.
272 square miles are inland waters.
2. "Sedentary Palestine."
In Palestine there is a sharp division be-
tween the areas inhabited by sedentary and
a. The Coastal Plains and Plain of Es-
draelon.
nomadic populations. The present popula-
tion of Palestine is approximately 1,750,000, of
The plains of sedentary Palestine include:
which 97 percent is sedentary and the re-
(1) the coastal lowland, which runs the entire
mainder nomadic. The sedentary population
length of the Mediterranean coast from Ras
occupies that part of Palestine north of Beer-
en Naqura in the north to the Egyptian border
sheba, and scattered nomadic tribes occupy
in the south; and (2) the Plain of Esdraelon,
the region to the south. The diversity of both
which trends northwest-southeast from Haifa
climate and terrain in the area of sedentary
to the Jordan Depression. It is in these two
population has had a definite influence on
areas that citriculture has been most highly
local agricultural economies, whereas, in the
developed.
south, the diversity of terrain is overshadowed
The coastal plain varies in width from two
by the uniform dryness of the climate.
miles, north of Acre, to 25 miles, near Gaza
From west to east Palestine can be divided
in the south, and is dune-fringed along most
into three physiographic regions: (1) a coastal
of the seaward side. In the Haifa area, Mount
plain; (2) the Central Highlands, bisected by
Carmel extends to within 200 yards of the
the Plain of Esdraelon; and (3) the rift valley
coast and divides the coastal lowland into the
in the east, which includes the Jordan Depres-
Plain of Acre in the north and the plains of
sion in the north and Wadi el Araba in the
Sharon and Philistia in the south. The
south.
coastal road and the railroad, which connect
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