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. Israel Leads in High Tech Farming
By ABRAHAM AAMIDOR
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Due to endrmo us
technological strides, Is-
rael's agriculture is recog-
nized throughout the world
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as one of the most advanced.
The country is not only 90
percent self-sufficient, but
is a major food exporter as
well.
The record shows that Is-
rael may well lead the way
toward the alleviation of
world hunger. Local dairy
herds yield an average of
7,300 liters of milk per cow
annually, the highest re-
ported in the world; coni-
bined agricultural yield has
grown over 5 percent per
annum since the founding of
the state; and agricultural
exports topped $800 million
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
L'Shana Tova Tikatevu . . .
In celebration of the new year we extend to
our friends sincere wishes for happiness
and health. Let us give thanks for past
blessings and look forward with renewed
strength and hope to the future.
Happy New Year!
RICHARD LOVE CLU
100 Renaissance Center, Suite 2912
(313) 259-6120
Dominion Life
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AMERICAN
SOCIETY
for
TECHNION
Detroit Chapter
INSRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
sponsors .. .
Colonel Yaakov Yariv Zur
• Assistant Military Attache for Research and De-
velopment, Embassy of Israel, Washington,
D.C.
Thursday
Sept. 23, 1982
7:45 p.m.
•
Head of Israel Ground Forces Armament Di-
vision of the Defense Research and Develop-
ment Unit
Fought in 1956 Sinai Campaign, Six Day War,
War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War and the Litani
Campaign
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Technion Graduate, Mechanical Engineering
Helped in the planning and establishment of
industries in the Negev
Headed a group planning electro-mechanical
systems
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• Background — The grave danger Israel faced
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What the Media failed to report
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Contributions of Israel's military technology
The prospects for Lebanon and Israel
program director .. .
Dr. Joseph N. Epel
President, American Technion Society-Detroit
Chapter and Former Directori Plastic Research
and Development, The Budd Company
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Operation Peace for Galilee
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Bring Family
and Friends
in 1981.
The successes are even
more extraordinary in view
of the formidable problems
which confronted Israel's
pioneers during the- -early
part of this century. In a
country plagued by. a
minuscule rainfall — there
is virtually no rain between
April and November — and
few natural water sources,
one of the most challenging
problems during those early
_days was, oddly enough, an
overabundance of water.
In the valleys and coas-
tal areas of the north, ma-
larial swamps and fetid
marshes prevented any
serious agricultural un-
dertaking. The ambitious
drainage programs of the
Jewish National Fund
during the •'30s and '40s
transformed these stag-
nant wastes into fertile
farmland.
Later, in the 1950s, it was
the JNF which again
created soil for agriculture
through the use of scientific
technology.
The Huleh Lake, north of
the Sea of Galilee, was a
stagnating body of water.
JNF workers freed the
southern, outlet of the lake
from the hardened lava
which had been blocking
the natural flow of water.
The resultant drainage
turned the region into
15,000 acres of excellent
cropland.
Moreover, large quan-
tities of water were made
available for irrigation in
other parts of the country,
thus providing one early
solution to Israel's overrid-
ing agricultural headache
— lack of water.
Advances in modern
irrigation methods con-
tinued through the years.
One simple but ingenious
solution for more effi-
cient utilization of the
country's limited water
supply was the develop-
ment of the drip irriga-
tion system, which in a
few years quadrupled -
yields. In this system, '
plastic hoses are run
alongside the crops, and,
via holes spaced along
the hoses, measured'
amounts of water are
dripped directly onto the
root systems, with little
or no water loss.
At one experimental sta-
tion near the Dead Sea, to-
matoes are grown by a
"hydronic" system that uses
no soil at all. The plants are
suspended in a jet stream of
water, which contains all
necessary nutrients.
What next? How about
"low plastic tunnel" ag-
riculture? Plastic sheet-
ing is stretched on top of
the shallow furrows in
the ground, holes are
punched in the plastic,
and groups of seeds are
injected through the
holes.
The plastic cover protects
the sprouts and increases
the temperature, stimulat-
ing growth. This way, the
crops can be brought to
market in Europe three
weeks earlier than usual,
and can get the best prices.
Shofar Will Remain Quiet
on First Day of Holiday
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
parts of Israel or the world
even at that time when
The shofar will not be Rosh Hashana occured on
blown on the
day of the Sabbath.
Rosh Hashana this year be-
HAPPY NEW YEAR • *,
cause it falls on the Sabbath • •
and shofar blowing is pro=
hibit,ed on the Sabbath.
The rabbis have ex-
plained the prohibition by
claiming that if the shofar
were to be blown on the day
of Rosh Hashana which falls
on the Sabbath someone
(most likely the one who
SEE
blows the shofar) might in-
advertently carry the shofar
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that the Mishna (Rosh •
Hashana 29b) tells us that
when the Holy Temple was
open and active in
Jerusalem the shofar was • PERSONALIZED-SERVICE
blown in the temple there
GUARANTEED
even on the Sabbath, and •
yet it was not blown in other
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