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Photos of Israel

Present-day Caesarea, Israel, is located midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea. Herod the Great built the city, then known as Caesarea Maritima, around 25-13 B.C. as a major port.  With no reliable source of fresh water, Herod commissioned a system of aqueducts (surviving section shown) to supply water from nearby Mount Carmel. The aqueducts delivered water for 1,200 years, until canals were built.

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Real GDP per capita

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Labor force

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Merchant marine

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