Lively competition over the site of the proposed new civil airport in Palestine is engaging much attention here particularly since the recent arrival of Major Gumbley, new government director of civil aviation.
Although the site for the new airport is believed to be definitely selected, Jerusalem, the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and Haifa are strenuously seeking selection of a site within their respective confines.
Jerusalem, it is argued, is the capital of Palestine and the government seat. Commercial circles overwhelmingly favor the Tel Aviv-Jaffa location which has the largest business community in the country and, topographically, is better located than Jerusalem which lies in the hilly regions. Haifa, whose greatly improved harbor is quickly making the city the gateway to the entire Near East and a formidable rival to Beirut, seeks the airport because it is the center of all of Palestine’s heavy industry and headquarters of most of the important concerns doing business in the country are located there.
The Countess of Charlemont, born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1734, adopted Judaism and often consulted rabbis for advice on spiritual matters.
Max-Theodore Cerfbeer rose to the rank of colonel in the French army and served in the French Chamber of Deputies from 1842 to 1846.
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