Taba טאבה

Beach resort at the head of the Gulf of Eilat, just south of the city. In the 1906 Taba Crisis, Britain, ruling Egypt, forced the Ottomans to accept a Sinai border running from Rafah to Taba, the line of today's border. Israel held Taba after 1967 and built a hotel there. When the two countries disagreed on the exact line after the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, international arbitration gave Taba to Egypt, and Israel handed it over in 1989.