A plan is under way for the construction of hotels and sanatoria on the hills outside Jerusalem. Its cool climate in the Summer has influencial sponsors of the plan to select the upland area as the site.
Many Tel Aviv and Haifa residents are at present forced to go to the Lebanon in search of relief from the heat.
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