SPATIAL SITUATIONS The Naharayim Hydroelectric power plant was founded by Pinhas Rutenberg in 1932. Located in Mandatory Palestine, what today is on the current border between Israel and Jordan intersecting the Yarmouk River, the power station supplied the Jordan River Valley with electricity up until the 1948 Palestine War. Pinhas Rutenberg, engineer and founder of Palestine Electric Company (Israel Electric Company) commissioned the architect Erich Mendelsohn to design the power station but later modified the drawings to his own standard. Pinhas Rutenberg built power stations in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Tiberias during this time period in collaboration with the architects Benjamin Orell, Richard Kaufmann, Alexander Baerwald, Josef Berlin and Erich Mendelsohn.
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