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Subject:        Israel/Palestine maps
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:54:42 +0200
From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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Recently seen maps of note:

"The Matrix of Control, conceived by Prof. Jeff Halper, coordinator,
the Israeli Committee Against House demolitions (ICAHD)"
published 2002 via the Alternative Tourism Group and the Alternative
Information Center, by
Good Shepherd Engineering and computing Co., Bethlehem
www.gsecc.com
shows West Bank and Gaza, areas A,B,C, Palestinian built up areas,
Israeli settlements, estimated settlement blocs, nature reserves,
roads and various boundaries.
rear of map has an essay "The key to peace: dismantling the matrix of
control" by Halper.
Map appears to be obtainable from GSECC, or from AIC:   www.alternativenews.org
or ATG   www.patg.org

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The Israeli Tourism Ministry issues a 2000 "Nazareth visitors' map"
in English (their catalogue #314) which is rather good. The front is
a streetmap of greater Nazareth, and is not particularly accurate,
but the rear has a 1:2500 enlargement of the city centre showing all
the churches, almost all individual buildings, alleys etc. which is
excellent and accurate.
Note that streets in Nazareth are not named, but have 4-digit numbers!
Should be available free from Israeli tourism offices or chambers of
commerce,such as those in NY, Chicago, Dallas, LA, Toronto, Sydney
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In general, accurate, up to date maps of Israeli cities in English
are hard to find. The street atlases for Israeli towns ignore all
Palestinian towns such as Bethlehem and Nabulus, and the most
accurate ones are in Hebrew only.

Maps in English and Arabic of Palestinian towns may be had from
places such as Munther Fahmi's Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel
in Jerusalem (ph 970-2-6279731) or the Applied Research Institute in
Bethlehem, just inside the main gate of the security fence (www.arij.org)

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The large 1:50,000 maps published by the Society for the Preservation
of Nature in Israel (19 overlapping sheets cover the country),
include trails and minefields etc, come in laminated and unlaminated
versions, and use Survey of Israel base data, but tend to look
somewhat faded in their contour lines. The rear has trail info and
inset maps of the popular areas, but all this series is entirely in Hebrew.

A Survey of Israel large format 1:25,000 topo series is slowly being
produced, with half a dozen sheets available for the north of the
country (inc Haifa),  a sheet covering Massada., and a few
provisional editions for areas west of Jerusalem. These are entirely
in Hebrew but are very good.

Standard survey of Israel 1:50,000 topos cover the country but are
also entirely in Hebrew.

1:100,000 topos are available in Hebrew and a mixed Hebrew-English
version, with many, but not all, placenames added in English.

All Israeli maps, SPNI and Survey of Israel, omit military facilities.

The Survey's excellent 1990s 1:2500 map of the old city of Jerusalem
is out of print in the English version, but the Hebrew version is
currently available.
It is an updating of a similar sheet produced by the British in the 1920s.

The Survey also a sells a 1:250,000 topo of the southern Sinai, aimed
at Israeli tourists. The other two sheets planned to complete Sinai
coverage were either not produced or are now unavailable.





Dr Brendan Whyte
Hebrew University of Jerusalem