Israel natural resources include timber, potash, and sand

Posted on October 8, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Tidbits 219Comments2007-10-08+11%3A44%3A09Miriam+Schwab

Did you know that sand is considered one of Israel natural resources? Israel’s list of natural resources according to the CIA Factbook is unimpressive, to say the least. The list includes timber, potash, copper ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, and sand.

Sand?!

It’s as if they felt the list was too short and had to add something, anything – so they added sand and clay. Yup, the world is just clamoring for our clay.

I guess the one comfort is that Israel has been forced to look elsewhere for income, and as a result has developed a pretty impressive technology sector.

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Jerusalem Joe October 8, 2007 4:00 pm

That’s ridiculous.
Since when do we have timber? We have to plant stuff like crazy in order to have some shade in the summer. I guess nobody told the CIA that Israel is mostly desert.
And if they’re listing sand they might as well list “air” too…
Miriam October 8, 2007 6:13 pm

Jerusalem Joe – You’re right! I didn’t even think of that when I read that they said timber is one of our resources. I guess they’re referring to the twig I saw thriving in the middle of the desert.

Air is valuable; we all need it.
Lazer December 18, 2007 10:31 pm

Well, I suppose the sand + the tech sector go hand-in-hand. Though that would work better if we acctually made the chips as well.
Daniel Schwab July 30, 2008 9:29 pm

What is the market price for sand and clay???? I’m looking for about 100 tonnes of very grainy sand.

Any Israel’s got any to sell me?
john lees November 16, 2008 5:24 am

I rather thought that funny that a country would list “SAND” as a natural resource when every country in the world has it, (never ever heard of a floating country)I guess this must be desperation. I see this as Israel trying to make a long list of the limited natural resource it has as a distraction to the fact that it is in fact a welfare state sponsered by the USA and the people of America had better wake up to this fact before their own country ends up broke because all their wealth has endede up in Israel.Another lie is the TIMBER claim, that country is a desert as far as I know it and deserts have no trees, looks like the CIA is just as ignorant as S Palin on world affairs.
Karin December 1, 2008 9:37 pm

Some of the natural resources on this list unfort. are depleting the Dead Sea…
Miriam Schwab December 2, 2008 10:42 am

@Karin – which basically is saying that we have no natural resources, since whatever we do have we can’t/shouldn’t use.

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