Israel: Work on the Israel oil pipe line, being laid between Eilat and Beer Sheba, is progressing at fast tempo; The construction crew hace reached a point 50 kilometres south of Beer Sheba. The eight inch pipe will hardly satisfy even the domest oil needs of Israel, but it has been proposed that a 30 inch pipe line is to be laid. The French Government recently announced that France will aid Israel in building an oil pipe line from Eilat to Haifa, and that work would begin shortly. 15 January 1957