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August 19, 1981
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Israel’s entry into the coal age has been held up by a seamen’s strike. Work on unloading 62,000 tons of coal from Australia was due to have begun Monday to start coal stockpiling for a new power generating plant at Hadera — Israel’s first to be fired by coal instead of more expensive oil.

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