The amount in cultivated land has more than doubled and the amount of irrigated land has grown by over 500 percent. Industrial growth has been no less impressive. in the 5year period between 1958 and 1963. for instance. the value of Israels industrial output actually doubled. But Israels spectacular economic growth is only half of the story. The gifted People that have immigrated to the new Jewish homeland have already made Tel Aviv a major world cultural center. Israel ranks second in the world for the number of books published in proportion to its total population. Over a thousand libraries have grown alongside the new agricultural and industrial complexes thaft are transforming the desert.
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