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• An Adani Group-led joint venture took over Israel’s Haifa Port.
• Haifa Port is Located in northern Israel; Haifa is one of the biggest commercial ports that handle nearly half of Israel’s container cargo and is also a principal port for passenger traffic and cruise ships.
• The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel's three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat.
• It has a natural deep-water harbour, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships.

Israel:

• It is a country in Western Asia.
• Situated between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, it is bordered by;
  • Lebanon in the North.
  • Syria in the Northeast.
  • Jordan in the East.
  • Egypt in the Southwest,
  • Palestinian territories — the West Bank along the east and the Gaza Strip along the southwest — with which it shares legal boundaries.
• Tel Aviv is the economic and technological centre of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally.

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