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Island of Peace
The Island of Peace is an area which is under Jordan's sovereignty with Israeli private land ownership rights and property interests.〔()〕 The park at the confluence of the Jordan River and Yarmouk River.〔(The beautiful and tragic story of Naharayim, Jerusalem Post )〕 Pinhas Rutenberg's Naharayim hydroelectric power station can be seen from here.
==History==
Land along the Jordan River's alluvial slopes and floor bed was under Jewish ownership before the establishment of the State of Israel.〔(Jordan River Valley Peace Park )〕 In 1927, Pinchas Rutenberg, founder of the Palestine Electric Company, signed an agreement with King Abdullah I of Jordan to build a hydroelectric power station. The canals and dams built for this purpose created a man-made island. The plant began supplying electricity in 1932. Operations were shut down in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.〔(Jordan River Peace Park )〕
In 1994, Israel ceded the area to Jordan as part of the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. Jordan agreed to lease it back so the Israeli farmers from Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'acov could continue to cultivate the land.〔 Farming continues under a 25-year, automatically renewable lease. A gate was established to enable Israeli tourists to visit the park without a visa or passport, on presentation of their identity cards to the Jordanian guards at the border crossing.〔
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