THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20 Friday, February 20, 1981
Agriculture and Science Play Major Role in Israel Development
By PAUL HIRSHHORN
Features From Jerusalem
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would have little trouble
finding Israel. We know this
because recent satellite
photos show Israel's borders
clearly delineated, not by
rivers or mountains, but by
developed green areas next
to arid desert.
How did all of this come
about in just three decades?
Consider these achieve-
ments:
• Israel today is the world
leader in the field of solar
energy.
• The country has set
up the most successful
system for water usage in
the world, exploiting
some 95 percent of avail-
able resources.
• Israel kibutzim pro-
duce more milk per cow and
more cotton per acre than
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farmers anywhere else in
the world.
• While countries around
the world have held emer-
gency meetings to discuss
the relentless growth of the
world's deserts, which is de-
stroying their land, Israel
has continually reclaimed
desert areas and increased
her agricultural areas.
• Tiny Israel is one of only
seven countries that pro-
duce advanced fighter air-
craft. Her "Kfir" is rated
among the best in the world.
• Last year some 8 per-
cent of Israel's industrial
exports (not counting
polished diamonds) were
the products of science
and technology based in-
dustries. These are ex-
pected to gross some $1
billion a year by the early
1980s.
Because of the relatively
small size of many Israeli
science-based companies,
and Israel's small popula-
tion, research and develop-
ment operations often are
linked to Israel's seven in-
dustries of higher educa-
tion.
The Technion-Israel In-
stitute of Technology, lo-
cated in Haifa, has trained
some two-thirds of the coun-
try's engineers. With a wide
range of research institutes,
it provides R and D services.
to both government and
private enterprise.
The Weizmann Institute
of Science, in Rehovot, is in-
volved in scientific re-
search.
The Hebrew Uni-
versity, Ben-Gurion Uni-
versity of the Negev, Tel
Aviv University and
Bar-Han University have
scientific departments.
Four of Israel's seven
universities have their
own science based indus-
trial parks.
Some sample fruits which
today benefit Israeli indus-
try include:
. • A laser machine to iden-
tify diamonds, developed at
the Weizmann Institute,
that is being manufactured
by an Israeli firm and sold to
jewelers worldwide.
• Nuclear medical in-
strumentation sold around
the world, designed by
Technion-trained
engineers.
• A pain easing device,
developed three years ago
by Agar Electronics Ltd. in
cooperation with the Pain
Release Department of
Hadassah Hospital. Several
hundred are already in use
in the United States.
• Newly invented motor
guard which prevents the
costly burnout of electric
motors and generators, de-
veloped at the Technion.
In the field of solar
energy, new developments
include a solar house and a
car run on solar energy.
Based on the principle that
all bodies of water trap the
rays of the sun, Israelis
have developed the "solar
pond." In a normal pond
warmer water rises to the
surface, losing its heat. Is-
raeli research has proven
that the addition of salt
"traps" the heat at the bot-
tom.
Resettlement
Conference
NEW YORK — Recruit-
ment, training, manage-
ment and other aspects of
volunteer programs in the
area of Soviet Jewish reset-
tlement will be explored at a
conference April 1-2, spon-
sored by the Council of
Jewish Federations, in
cooperation with the Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Women, the National Cen-
ter for Citizen's Involve-
ment, and the United
Jewish Appeal Federation
of Washington, D.C.
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One breakthrough in
government plans to in-
crease Israel's available
water supply some 50 per-
cent by 1990 is the desalina-
tion of sea water. Three
flash evaporation plants are
already in operation, sup-
plying desalinated water
from the Red Sea to the
people in the port city of
Eilat. Scientists at Ben-
Gurion University in the
Negev Desert are already
growing sweet-tas
cucumbers and other v
ables from such water.
In the north, one of the,.
country's largest civilian
projects uses natural
processes including
photosynthesis, bacterial .k
action and algae growth
to purify sewage.
Agriculture and science
in Israel are inextricably .,
linked. Plant geneticists
have developed hybrid
wheat and barley bred spe-
cially for desert conditions.
Research has led to the
growing of artipex, a plant
native to Australia's salt
marshes, which can be used
to feed sheep and cattle.
Zionist Leaders
to Speak in U.S.
NEW YORK — Two Is-_
raeli religious Zionist lead- .
ers will undertake an ex-
tensive speaking tour later
this month throughout the
United States and Canada.
Rabbi Chaim Druckman,
member of Knesset, and
Yosef Shapira, chairman of
the Youth Aliya depart-
ment of the Jewish Agency-
and member of the Jewish —
Agency's world executive,
will visit 20 cities and ad-
dress Jewish audiences on
aliya, Zionism and other is-
sues concerning Israel.
The tour is being spon-
sored by TZOMET (an ac-
ronym for Zion, Medina, To- 4-
rah), in conjunction with
the religious department of
the American Zionist Youth
Foundation.
Firm Penalized
WASHINGTON (JTA) — --
The W. A. Baum Co. of
Copiague, N.Y., manufac-
turer of blood pressure
measuring devices, has
agreed to pay a civil penalty
of $6,000 for violating U.S.
laws against the Arab
boycott of American com-
panies doing business with
Israel.
The U.S. Department of
Commerce said the Baum
firm was fined $5,000 for
furnishing prohibited
formation in response I
boycott request from 'i,ou
Dhabi and $1,000 for failing
to report the request.
Rags to 'Riches
AFULA (JNI) — Accord-
ing to Afula Mayor Ovadia -
Eli, this city with Israel's
highest unemployment will
have no joblessness in two
years. Thirteen factories
are being built in the Afula
area, with another 13
planned for operation by
1983. They will bring 3,000
new jobs and millions of in-
vestment dollars to the Jez-
reel Valley city.