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Dead Sea Works
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Dead Sea Works The Dead Sea Works ( ) is the current (2008) name of the successor company to the Palestine Potash Company which was founded by Moshe Novomeysky in the 1920s -- for more detail on its foundation, see here The business is a major industry on the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel . The company operates in the southern basin of the Sea, where it has a series of large evaporation ponds . These produce potash , which is exported around the world for various uses.1
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