27 Jun 1948, Jerusalem, Israel — Jerusalem: Jewish laborers are building a natural grade over a Palestine mountain, to make it possible for trucks to pass over new Tel Aviv to Jerusalem road. Arab held positions on former roads have made it impossible to supply beleaguered Jerusalem on that route, so Jews have carved a Palestine «Burma Road» out of the wilderness. In many places the road is so rough that tractors are needed to pull trucks, which cannot negotiate under their own power. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS