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Israel's Hydroponics:
From Shmittah To Space
CARL ALPERT
Special to The Jewish News
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aifa — Hydroponics:
popularly, the grow-
ing of plants in water;
more precisely, the growing of
plants without soil, the nutri-
tive elements being added to
the water in the form of the
exact chemicals required by
each species for maximum re-
sults.
In recent years horticultural
hobbyists have enjoyed de-
veloping and displaying their
hydroponic tanks in much the
same fashion as some people
raise goldfish or canaries. For
Israel, however, hydroponics
has become an important as-
pect of the agricultural
economy. More than one-
fourth of the Negev winter crop
of vegetables is grown in sand
or gravel by hydroponic cul-
ture.
While this procedure is pur-
sued in parts of the U.S.
(Arizona and California,
among other states) and in var-
ious European countries, Is-
rael is one of the most ad-
vanced countries in the world,
and its expertise is in demand
everywhere.
We met with Dr. Meier
Schwarz, the world's acknowl-
edged expert, in a small office
at the Jerusalem College of
Technology, where he serves as
head of the research and de-
velopment department, and
where he is introducing hyd-
roponics as an important field
of research. He had only re-
cently returned from Peru,
where he had been sent by the
Agency for International De-
velopment (AID) to launch a
hydroponics program in areas
where the soil is completely
unsuited for agriculture. It got
off to a good start, and he will
be back there later in the year
to follow up.
Schwarz has been in demand
in all parts of the world, where
he has introduced this method
of raising food: Canary Islands,
Bermuda, Singapore, Alaska,
South Africa and elsewhere.
Arab lands are among those
which today seek help from
Schwarz, but indirectly, and on
condition that the source of the
know-how remains secret. To
this Schwarz will not agree.
After the Six-Day War our Is-
raeli expert was amazed to dis-
cover hydroponic culture going
on around Jericho. The expla-
nation came when he dis-
covered a copy of his book on
the subject in a Jordanian-
Arab agricultural school in the
area.
culture,
Hydroponic
Schwarz told us, results in
much healthier plants, almost
eliminating root diseases, and
the need for chemical spraying
of the plants. This makes the
product popular also among
health food advocates.
First extensive American
use of hydroponics came dur-
ing the Second World War
when troups were stationed on
barren desert islands in the
Pacific, and supply of fresh
provisions was a problem. At
about the same time, Israel's
pioneer agronomist, Selig Sos-
kin, set up a hydroponics ex-
perimental station in Ramat
Gan. Since then, many other
barren areas have learned
what can be done.
Soilless culture was first in-
troduced commercially into Is-
rael some years ago at Kibbutz
Hafetz Haim, as one way of
raising food during the shmit-
tah year, when the halachah
requires that each seventh
year the land be allowed to lie
fallow. It was advocated by the
revered scholar, Hazon Ish,
and the Orthodox farmers
popularized the method, but its
general use today far exceeds
any shmittah requirements.
Perhaps it is no coincidence
that Orthodox religious circles
have been in the forefront of
the use of hydroponics. Dr.
Schwarz is himself president of
the Association of Orthodox
Jewish Scientists in Israel.
And the Jerusalem College of
Technology, at which he is now
introducing the subject, is a
widely respected institution
where religious and engineer-
ing studies are combined, and
graduates who excel in their
research work are also profi-
cient Talmud scholars.
If the U.S. proceeds with its
plans for establishing manned
stations in space, the problem
of supplying the necessary vit-
amins for the staff, in the form
of fresh vegetables, will be
solved by use of hydroponics.
Perhaps Dr. Schwarz's sum-
mons for consultation at NASA
headquarters in America not
long ago had something to do
with this.
Catholic Hospital
Honors Rabbi
New York — An Orthodox
rabbi and professor of Jewish
medical ethics at Yeshiva
University has been honored
at a Suffern, N.Y., Catholic
Hospital.
The $1 million cardiac
catheterization laboratory at
Good Samaritan Hospital,
sponsored by the Sisters of
Charity of St. Elizabeth on
Covenant Station, N.J., has
been dedicated in honor of
Dr. Moses Tendler, spiritual
leader of the Community
Synagogue of Monsey, N.Y.