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So, we are standing right here with a beautiful afternoon view of the Aqaba Gulf or the Gulf of Aqaba.

We call it the Gulf of Elat, named after the beautiful city of Elat that Israel founded in 1949.

And I have the privilege of belonging to a family that my grandparents were of the founding fathers of this city.

They survived the Holocaust, they made it to the land of Israel in 1948.

And by 1949, 1950, they were sent down here.

There was nothing here and we started all from scratch.

And today this is the number one resort town of the state of Israel.

And it's right across from the Jordanian resort town called Aqaba.

And the Gulf that we see here is one of two Gulf's two fingers that stretches out of the red sea.

And that one of them is the Gulf of Aqaba in Elat and the other one is the Gulf of Suets,

which eventually makes it to the Suets Canal because it connects the Gulf of Suets with the Mediterranean.

So, we're talking about two fingers that coming out of a long stretch known as the Red Sea that eventually gets down to Yemen, Somalia and to the Indian Ocean.

And the Red Sea, for the most part we believe is called the Red Sea because of the reflection of the red mountains on the waters of the sea, especially in the late afternoon.

These mountains are called the mountains of Idom in the Hebrew language, Idom, Adom, Red, red colored mountains.

And that may be the explanation for why we call it the Red Sea also.

Of course, we have also the other name of the sea known as the Sea of Reeds.

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