Portal:Israel/Did you know/8

• ... that the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan was developed by a U.S. ambassador in 1955 to reduce conflict between Israel, Jordan, and their neighbors?

• ... that Hanan Porat, who was evacuated as an infant from the Jewish village of Kfar Etzion in the Judean Mountains, later founded the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank?

• ... that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 105 Israelis were taken prisoner by Egypt in the Battle of Nitzanim, which was viewed as humiliating in Israel?