His Fib o- Tit reel eel grew arew in olden times. Numerous ancient wine and olive presses have been excavated in all parts of 1 he country, dating back to the Israel and Canaanite period. The Bible, too, is full of refer- ences to the importance of fruit growing in ancient Israel. The most striking evidence in sup- port of this fact is furnished, perhaps, by the famous sentence describing a period of rest and peace for t h e people: "And Judah and Israel sat in security, everyone beneath his vine and his fig tree, from Dan unto Beersheba." General Electric Sign Co. 3939 Grand River TE. 1-2020 Holiday Greetings To Our Many Customers And Friends WHITE STAR DAIRY 585 KENILWORTH TO. 8-8655-6 Holiday Greetings • h L ' Theodore J. S lmb mit STUDIOS Superior Instruction in All Branches in the Art of Dancing Fall Aastsaqeb slis tiw i llorming 13206 Livernois cor. Tyler WE 5 - 9470 or WE 3 - 4898 Best Wishes for a Healthy and Happy New Year to All Our Friends and Relatives MR. AND MRS. N. R. EPSTEIN 19419 Warrington Detroit, 21, Michigan New Year Greetings Best Wishes for a Happy New Year To Our Friends and Patrons SPECIFICATIONS SERVICE CO. Philip Kramer Agency, Inc. FRUIT TREES IN JORDAN'S HILLS 14877 Wyoming WE 3-9070 18218 JAMES COUZENS Practically all this land had • DI 1-1077 been wrested from a state of There are now some seventy wilderness through reclamation t7 Jewish villages in the mountain- work carried out by the Jewish Holiday Greetings ous parts of I s r a e 1, most of National Fund, and prepared i New Year Greetings 1 which were founded in the first for its present purpose. During Brady decade of the State. Fruit grow- the last planting season (winter ing is the most important branch 1957-58), a further 3,000 du- Waste Material nams of land in the Hills of in the economy. Engineers and Contracfors i Company By 1957, these villages could Judea and Galilee were covered 1 Ventilation - Air Conditioning - Industrial Piping !I with fruit plantations, while 1533 Mock already boast an area of 26,300 nearly all of the 31,000 dunams i 10311 Capital Oak Park JO. 4-5620 dunams planted with fruit trees. of hilly land reclaimed by the JNF during 1957 are also ear Greetings on Rosh Hashanah to All ■•■■ marked for vineyards and fruit ■■•■ ■ • ■ Our Friends and Customers gardens, to be laid out during the coming winter. This falls *Happy New Year to Our Friends and Patrons • within the framework of the 911.121Zial • plan to provide each settler • • In New Orleans, It's Antoines family in the hill villages with In San Francisco, It's Omar Khayyam eight dunams of fruit planta- In DETROIT, It's MARIO'S tions. 18940 Wyoming UN. 4-9408 4222 SECOND TE 3-9425 The majority of existing 30,- • • ■ ■■■■■■■■•■■■■ 000 dunams of plantations are still very young and just about Q__ to reach the fruit-bearing stage. - - Greetings on Rosh Hashanah But already, a year ago, the .. - Best Wishes for a Happy New Year - produce of these gardens began - - for the first time to make its weight felt in the Israel econ- omy, and during the current sea- Enjoy Bowling at Its Best son is already influencing the 7040 PURITAN Reservations, UN 1-4702 16463 WOODWARD fruit market to a considerable TO 8-0139 - degree. The rise in yields dur- o - ing the coming years will make Israel a country of grapes, ap- Best Wishes to All Our Friends and ples, plums and peaches, to a Holidoy Greetings no lesser degree than its pres- Patrons for a Happy New Year ent fame for citrus fruits. The vine, quite naturally, oc- cupies first place among fruit species in the mountain villages. 13324 WEST 7 MILE ROAD MELLO-RIPE BANANAS It is one of the oldest-known. UN. 4-6100 plants cultivated in the Medi- 140 Twelfth Street TA 5-1525 - 6 terranean zone, and in Biblical times vineyards constituted one of the most important branches New Year Greetings in every mountain farm in the Happy New Year Land of Israel. The vine, accord- ing to Biblical descriptions, be- longed to the "Seven Species" Van Auken Guards Distributors with which the "Land of Israel Joseph H. Remer, Mgr. Lathing — Contracting was blessed." Pictures of grapes 535-37 EAST CANFIELD are found on ancient coins, and TEmple 1-1582 17561 Pierson on frescoes of synagogues of the Second Temple and Roman periods. Best Wishes For A Happy New Year Second place amongst hill fruits is occupied by the olive Greetings of the Season grown on an area of 6,000 du- nams. This tree, too, is indige- nous to Palestine, and has typi- Motor Tune-Up — Brake Service fied ancient agriculture in this region for thousands of years. 10520 West 7 Mile UN. 2-9558 17930 McDougall TW 3-4235 Experts consider that Israel is specially adapted for fruit cultivation, thanks to the rich sunlight it enjoys. Not only Holiday Greetings Holiday Best Wishes should it be able to produe fruit in abundant varieties and quantities for the ever-increas- ing population, but even to ex- port certain varieties, especially Making Good Impressions Since 1913 in off-season months when fruit 6000 Woodward TR. 5-1560 Eugene McAdams is scarce in European markets. To some e x t e n t, fruit from 5023 Grand River at W. Warren TY 6-1000 Israel's hilly parts may reach a Holiday Greetings position somewhat similar to 001111•• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••41•0 that attained by the citrus grown in the plains, which have • Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday brought Israel over $50,000,000 • in foreign currency during the • • last season alone. • Specialists in Air Conditioning Historians and archeologists, : Larry Labell 11627 Mt. Elliott Ct. 10163 GRATIOT no less than economists and bo- a WALNUT 1-2345 tanists, can show that Israel was a Detroit. 12, Michigan HOME • OFFICE • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL . a land where wheat and fruit • ■■ ■ u••=0...1--uns. a— -01■•■ a —a av By E. SHEDLETSKY (Jerusalem) .a. ■■ ca, 1 J. BRODIE & SON INC 1 ON, "AIN. ea ama :mac,. a. • G C IMF • • ■ i • mann, • ■ •=re • i rn waseirsoom • •0 •••••••• ••••• ••• ••• • • : DOROTHY BENNETT BEAUTY . 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