Dead Sea oil rig. Percussion derrick being used to extract oil from an oil well at the south end of the Dead Sea in Israel in the 1950s. This photogra

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Dead Sea oil rig. Percussion derrick being used to extract oil from an oil well at the south end of the Dead Sea in Israel in the 1950s. This photograph was taken by the Matson Photo Service in 1953, during the period after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

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Photo credit: © LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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