Friday, April 9, 1982

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Bigger, Better Tomato Is Goal
of Israeli Agriculturist Peretz

Vaad Promises
Reply on Butchers

DR. STEVEN
MICHAEL POLLENS

Son of Dr. & Mrs. Louis
Pollens of Southfield,
graduated from Michi-
gan State University
College of Human
Medicine March 12.

Following publication in
last week's Jewish News of
a paid advertisement an-
nouncing the withdrawal of
five butchers from supervi-
sion by the local Vaad
Harabonim (Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis),. it has been
announced that four of the
group are resuming their
original affiliations with
the rabbinic council.
The Vaad informed The
Jewish News on Tuesday
that responsible planning
committees will review the

He resides in Lansing
with his wife Robin who
is a Speech and Lan-
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He plans to enter a re-
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tice.
adv.

local kashrut-control situa-
tion, with a formal state-
ment due from the Vaad
after Passover.
In the interim, the
Jewish Community
Council was drawn into
the discussions, with the
participation of its- kas-
hrut advisory committee.
The committee "reaf-
firmed its recognition of
the Vaad as the sole Or-
thodox rabbinical body
responsible for kashrut
supervision which in-
cludes authority over
kashrut certification."
At the same time, Rabbi
Jack Goldman, the ad-
ministrator of the Met-
ropolitan Kashruth Council
of Michigan, was reported to
have refused to replace the
Vaad in a supervisory
capacity. Rabbi Goldman
informed The Jewish News
that in the process of the
negotiations he advised the
butchers to resume supervi-
sion by the Vaad.

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JERUSALEM — If Eddie
Peretz has his determined
way, the Israeli tomato will
someday rank with its
friendly rivals, the Jaffa
orange and grapefruit, as a
sought-after delicacy for the
European palate, according
to an article in Israel Scene
magazine.
Peretz, who may well be
the most knowledgeable
man in Israel about the red
"love apples," has seen a lot
of progress since he and his
wife Lillian came to Israel
from New Zealand in 1968
to found the tomato-for-
export industry. The
moshav he was instrumen-
tal in establishing — Sde
Nitzan — is, with its part-
ner, Nezer Hazani, a
million-dollar operation.
"I believe that we could
build another 30 to 40 set-
tlements in this area, all
based on the tomato-
under-glass idea," he says.
Peretz and tomatoes go
back a long way. Born in
England, he was raised
on the Channel Islands of
Guernsey and Jersey,
which are famous for
their tomatoes. So great a
percentage of Guernsey's
24-square-miles is under
glass, in fact, that, flying
over it, one sees little
more than the sky's re-
flection.
Right from the start,
Peretz displayed a keen
interest in agriculture, de-
spite the objections of his
father, who felt that such
pursuits were beneath the
dignity of the Peretz line (he
is related to the noted He-
brew writer Y.L. Peretz and
his family can be traced,. via
Poland, back to Spain).
"I've always *felt that
working the land was a
healthy thing for the Jewish
people to get involved with,"
says the 61-year-old
moshavnik.
After constructing a
small greenhouse — the
first in the Negev and the
first in Israel devoted to
raising tomatoes — Peretz
planted a crop in Sep-
tember, 1969, despite the
fact that fall is a bit late to
start work.
Nevertheless, Peretz
had instant success. The
prices his tomatoes (there
is now a Peretz strain)
fetched on the London
market were 30 percent
higher than expected.
Eight tons were exported
that year.
"Nobody in Israel had

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ever seen anything like
them," he says. "Tomatoes
had been raised here before,
of course, but nothing of
such high export quality."
After another season,
during which he lent his ex-
pertise to teach young
French immigrants who
had recently founded
nearby Moshav Talme
Eliyahu, Peretz again
turned to Weitz, this time
with the notion of establish-
ing an Anglo-Saxon
moshay. Truth to tell, one of
his primary motives for
doing so was the language
barrier.
"I probably have a couple
of thousand Hebrew words
tucked away somewhere,
but I don't use them much,"
he admits. "But more than
that, I looked upon it as a
challenge. Let's face it. A
good many young people
from these countries are
dissatisfied and overedu-
cated in the 'wrong' fields. I
thought I could try to give
them a new direction."
An article in the
Jerusalem Post elicited
80 queries and, after a
trip to Australia, New
Zealand, the United
States and Britain to
drum up interest in the
idea, Moshav Sde Nitzan
was born in 1973, just in
time for the Yom Kippur
War. Ten families, who
were living temporarily
at Talme Eliyahu, built 10
greenhouses of one

dunam each.
"In spite of the difficulties
generated by the war and
everything else, we still ex-
ported over 10 tons a dunam
that year," says Peretz,
beaming. "And, meanwhile,
we recruited another 20
families, mostly from the
U.S., Canada and South Af-
rica.
Today, 51 families call_
Sde Nitzan home, cultivat
ing 120 dunams of Israen
finest tomatoes, as well as a
small quantity of flowers,
cucumbers, avocadoes,
grapes and mangoes.
Soon, the area will get a
big boost when five new set-
tlements to accommodate
the evacuees from the
Sinai's Rafiah Salient are
completed. Greenhouses are
being constructed and it is
hoped that by January the
newcomers will be harvest-
ing their first crop of to-
matoes.
Needless to say, Peretz,
who also gives weekly
advice to three settle-
ments in the Gaza Strip, is
deeply involved in the
entire project.
"Israel is already self-
sufficient, more or less, in
food production," he says.
"Now, we must turn to ex-
ports."
True enough. But the
competition with other
countries is fierce. Fortu-
nately, with Eddie Peretz on
our side, we have a head
start.

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JERUSALEM — Israeli amount that is applied, thus
soil physicists have de- improving soil structure for
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material which, when
The new material also re-
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improves conditions for seed
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economically. Another
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The conditioner, de- drawback was that ex-
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