Friday, April 9, 1982 12 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- guage Pathologist. He plans to enter a re- sidency in Family Prac- 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. Farming Course EMEK HEFER (JNI) — Twenty agricultural ex- perts from Africa, India and Asia are in Israel to study advanced farming and arti- ficial insemination tech- niques for cattle at the Rup- pin Institute's two-month course on the breeding, feeding and management of dairy herds. 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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 WANTED! YOUR USED AND SURPLUS 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. Technion Soil Conditioner Will Combat Wind Erosion JERUSALEM — Israeli amount that is applied, thus soil physicists have de- improving soil structure for veloped a conditioning better plant growth. material which, when The new material also re- sprayed on soil, protects it duces soil run-off during against wind erosion, pre- -rainy periods and can pre- vents crust formation and vent buildups of dust. improves conditions for seed Soil conditioners have germination. It is made mainly from industrial been around for many wastes; 40 percent of its years, but until now they makeup coming from paper could not be produced economically. Another industry effluent. The conditioner, de- drawback was that ex- veloped at the Technion, Is- cessive quantitiei were rael's Institute of Technol- required to obtain the de- ogy in Haifa by Prof. Dan sired soil improvement. The Israeli-produced con- Zaslaysky, actually makes dust particles adhere to ditioners are both reason- each other for weeks or able in price and may be years, according to the used in smaller quantities. Hot Water Via the Sun t $ 41„ or I ,r WORKBENCHES, SHELVING, RACKS, FILING CABINETS, DESKS, SAFES, ETC. . . . ALL TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT NO QUANTITY TOO SMALL! /2 MILLION SQ. FT. AT 8223 W. WARREN JUST EAST OF WYOMING • DEARBORN SPACE AVAILABLE FOR MONTH-TO-MONTH LEASING — VERY REASONABLE 1 Sarah-Lill . Harold Floogood FROM THE OLD TO THE MEW 933-1490 Solar collectors and water storage tanks are shown on the roofs of Israeli apartment houses. More than 80 percent of all hot water in Israel is provided by solar heaters, believed to be the highest percentage of any nation in the world.