A report on Israel’s extensive chemical industry has been presented to the International Labor Organization by A. Markowicz, who represents the Israel Government at a meeting here of an ILO committee for chemical industries.
Mr. Markowicz said that Israel had about 400 chemical plants, half established since the state was founded less than seven years ago. These plants manufacture a variety of products, he reported, from soaps and detergents through cosmetics and insecticides to glass and ceramics.
The Israel representative told the parley that the Dead Sea was providing Israel not only with potassium, but with important quantities of bromine. He expressed the opinion that the Dead Sea would become one of the world’s most important sources of bromine.
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