FOOD
Sweet Year
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sive as complicated pro-
cedures are required in order
to control infestations of
spider mites and fungus, both
of which attack the larvae.
Although Israeli bees pro-
duce most of their honey in
spring, the demand is
greatest at Rosh Hashanah,
autumn time, so the honey
has to be kept in storage un-
til then. One of the traditions
of the Jewish New Year is to
dip an apple in honey and
recite the prayer: "May it be
Thy will 0 Lord our God and
God of our fathers, to renew
unto us a good and sweet
year."
Israeli beekeepers have had
additional problems this year
because of the drought, with
spring flowers, the major
source of nectar, blooming
late and the citrus blossom-
ing lasting 10 days less than
usual. As a result, production
was reduced by half and
amounted to only 1,500 tons.
Of this, 95 percent is for the
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planning to increase exports
in the near future.
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person, the same in the
United States, but with the
recent influx of honey-lovers
— the Ethiopian Jews — that
could all change. In the
villages of their native
Ethiopia, the Jews would
hang baskets in trees to at-
tract bees and serve as hives,
then chew the comb with the
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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Manag-
ers and employees of
Ma'ariv hope to buy a stake
in the newspaper from the
estate of the late publishing
tycoon Robert Maxwell, to
ensure their interests and
the editorial integrity of
Israel's second-largest daily.
Editorial staff members
plan to establish a company
that would raise funds to
buy about 10 percent of Mr.
Maxwell's holdings, which
are being sold by Alan Katz,
who represents the admin-
istrators of Mr. Maxwell's
estate.
Shares in the purchasing
company would be held by
several hundred members of
the Ma'ariv's editorial,
business and press workers
staffs.
Mr. Maxwell, who died
mysteriously at sea Nov. 5,
had acquired some 80 per-
cent of the stock of the
Modi'in Publishing House
which owns Ma'ariv.
The Shimon Herfetz group
owns 15 percent of the re-
maining shares and Dov
Judkovsky, editor in chief of
the newspaper and a relative
by marriage of Mr. Maxwell,
owns 5 percent.
The Jerusalem Post re-
ported last week that Israeli
businessman Ya'acov
Nimrodi has offered Katz
$13 million for Mr. Max-
well's share.
Mr. Nimrodi made an un-
successful bid to buy the
Jerusalem Post last year, los-
ing out to the Canadian-
based Hollinger publishing
group. Mr. Hollinger is now
said to be interested in the
Ma'ariv shares on sale.
Ma'ariv appears to be
unaffected by the scandals
which have surrounded Mr.
Maxwell's debt-ridden em-
pire since his death.
Last week, Mr. Maxwell's
flagship international Eng-
lish-language newspaper,
the European, went under,
publishing its last edition
only a year and a half after it
was started with great fan-
fare. And in New York,
workers at the veteran Daily
News, which Mr. Maxwell
rescued in March, worried
over who would or could now
buy the bankrupt daily.
Mr. Maxwell's son, Kevin,
had suggested that the
News' workers take a hand
in purchasing their own
paper. The News' pensions
were not affected.
Ma'ariv management said
its pension fund was safe
and intact. And Mr. Katz
said last week that his
negotiations for the sale of
Ma'ariv shares are going
ahead as planned with in-
vestors in Israel and abroad.
He said the shares were a
"fine asset" and that the ob-
jectives of Mr. Maxwell's
administrators "are the
same as those of the Ma'ariv
management, its editorial
board and its employees."