High-Tech
Achievements
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What do you get when a bunch
of teen-aged California Jews get
together to enter a contest for cre-
ative Web page design?
You ger a darned nice site touting
Israel's 50 years of technological
achievements, that's what.
The "Israel: A Light Unto the
Nations'. site was created by three
students at Milken Community
High School of the Stephen Wise
Temple in Los Angeles.
The site documents Israeli
advances in agriculture, medicine,
personal conveniences and the mili-
tary. The home page features a kind
of fisheye collage; click on one
appropriately labeled quadrant to
look at one of the four areas.
In agriculture, the students pre-
sent a timeline showing how Israel
transformed deserts and swamps
into lush farmland.
In 1948, they tell us, there were
only about 408,000 acres of tillable
land; today, over 1.07 million acres
are being cultivated.
In the 1950s, the cutting-edge
technologies in Israeli agriculture
were the tools of the kibbutzim; in
the 1960s, "drip down" agriculture
accelerated transformation of the
land. In the 1990s, we learn,
advanced tools against desertifica-
tion are at the technological fron-
tier.
Each of these subjects is presented
for ordinary readers with no scientif-
ic or agricultural expertise. If more
advanced science is what floats your
boat, the kids provide ample links to
suitable material on the Net.
The section on "conveniences"
focuses on Israel achievements in
making life easier, from the solar
energy advances of the '50s to
today's "MMX" computer technolo-
gies — which were invented in
Israel.
There's a chat room, if you're into
chatting about science and Israel,
and there is a very pithy glossary of
terms, as well as a handful of very
basic educational games.
The site is interesting and well-
designed.
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