The Middle East after the Suez Crisis

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Arabia - Oil Fields

Neft ba-mizrah ha-tikhon. Zikaynot, shadot, tzinorot, batei zikuk. [Oil in the Middle East. Concessions, Oilfields, Pipelines, Refineries].

[ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES]
Tel Aviv,
1957
Folding chromolithographed map printed in red, blue and black, text in Hebrew, with explanatory panels also in English, a few small smudges, three small holes in sea area at old folds.
822 by 560mm. (32.25 by 22 inches).
20574

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Rare Israeli map covering most of the Middle East including: the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (Trucial States), Oman, and North and South Yemen.

The map was produced by the Israel Defence Forces, and shows oil fields, pipelines and related infrastructures, naming the multitude of American, European and local companies vying for business in the sh...

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