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Source: http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/thu/jan2w3.htm
Israel Fights Palestinian Mosquitoes
(AFP/Borneo Bulletin-Brunei) The Israeli environment ministry has given its green light to a program designed to rid southern Israeli cities from mosquitoes breeding in the nearby autonomous Palestinian city of Hebron, Maariv reported Wednesday. Professor Yoel Margalit from Beersheva's Ben-Gurion University has discovered a microbe which mosquitoes find particularly tasty but ends up eating them from the inside. The municipalities of Beersheva, Omer, and other towns in the Negev area near the southern West Bank demanded in vain that their counterparts from the Hebron region stop pouring their sewage into Israel. Some areas in southern Israel adjacent to the West Bank under Hebron's administration have found themselves immersed in noxious waters that are a favorite breeding ground for mosquitoes.