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pilots flying over the Middle
East now can distinguish the
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borderline between Israel and
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neighboring Jordan. On the East
they see the old, familiar brown
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and gray terrain with a few
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scattered patches of cultivation
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around isolated villages, the bit-
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ter fruit of a feudal land sys-
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tem that persists in this trou-
bled little kingdom. Below on
the West, a green carpet un-
rolls, covering new areas each
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day. The shadow of the plane's
the. New Year
wings undulates over tree tops
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of trucks, cars and buses. There
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is life in the West where the
land
of
Israel
goes
about
its
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The Negev
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seeking new horizons and cre-
ating
them.
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these roads innumerable times,
(Jerusalem)
as I have done, and grown ac-
The horizons of Israel are customed to the monotonous
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changing. This fact strikes the d u n-c o l o r e d landscape, the
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observer suddenly, especially parched lifeless hills. Then, one
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when driving across the Negev day, the eyes register a change.
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or through the newly opened The sharp, chaotic lines of
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Lakhish and Adullam regions boulder - strewn hilltops are
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which were wild, uninhabited gone. Their place has been
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wastelands a bare twenty-four taken by the spire-like shape of
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months ago.
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pine trees, the broad leaves of
One may have driven along the carob, the low - lying
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branches of fruit orchards. The
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skyline
is
softer
and
more
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pealing; it sways, as if alive,
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with every transient breeze.
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Gradually, other new sights
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come into view. Rows of neat,
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white, compact little houses
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travel up a slope that had been
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empty from time immemorial.
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Saplings, pencil-thin, rise be-
tween the furrowed lines of
newly plowed fields. There is
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a subtle encroachment of green
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on all sides. The air is less
dusty. The sky seems _bluer.
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all his life in Israel, changes
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such as these are common. They
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have occurred, at different
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times, in various parts of the
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land; in the Galilean mountains,
among the dunes of the coastal
plain, on the rugged slopes of
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the Judean Hills. Now they are
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coming about in regions that
4( many a soil expert might have
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written off as hopeless.
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twenty million dunams of land.
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been
brought
under
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The remainder of the cultivable
area lies chiefly among the hills
and on the plains southwest of
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Jerusalem.
There are many facets to land
reclamation. Terracing hills, re-
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moving rocks, planting trees,
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approach roads—all of these are
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part of the day-to-day tasks of
the Jewish National F u n d.
Afforestation is a major effort.
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A half million trees were
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planted so far in Adullam and
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Lakhish. By the end of this
year, no fewer than two million
trees will have been planted in
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those regions and in the Jeru-
salem Corridor. The figures only
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hint at the magnitude of this
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Afforestation is a science
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where for the best results. In
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sparse, trees have to be placed
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the dunam (quarter acre). The
eucalyptus which grows rapidly
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stores water in its massive
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roots, much as a camel does in
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by the Jewish National Fund
to be most successful. Pines can
be planted thickly, up to 250
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per dunam. They require only
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are newly arrived immigrants
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• Planting 1,000 trees provides a
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