You can only imagine how the Arab/Ottoman landlords must have gloated when they managed to sell absolutely useless, malaria-infested land to Jews.
https://www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-malaria-shaped-the-future-map-of-israel-1.5866664

Remember this next time you encounter anti-Israel activists shameless lying, moaning about "settler colonialism" and how Palestine was a rich and flourishing country. They have one point though: it wasn't an empty country -- it was full of mosquitoes https://twitter.com/EinatWilf/status/1288528435116113922

And as it happens, the man who made Zionist settlement possible by eradicating malaria in the 1920s &30s was named *Israel* Kligler.
https://www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-malaria-shaped-the-future-map-of-israel-1.5866664

Kligler's work was made possible by a generous grant from Louis Brandeis.

Soon to be published at the Electronic Intifada or Hamas mouthpiece MEMO: The GENOCIDAL Zionist campaign against Palestine's awesome historic malaria mosquitoes!!!!!! https://twitter.com/just_whatever/status/1288837176051085317

Contemporary news on the genocidal Zionist campaign against Palestine's beloved historic mosquitoes... https://twitter.com/AnarchoZionist/status/1288870143053840384