“We will turn our country into the most beautiful one in the world and make a garden out of the deserts,” Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared yesterday while inaugurating the Tel Aviv National Park. The National Park will cover 1,700 dunams north of this city. Mr. Ben Gurion planted the first pines.
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