Academy Children Visit tlie Zoo
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K & 1st graders arrive at Columbia, SC Zoo. With them are (L to R)
Jerry Davidson, teacher Lynn Tarleton and Carol Waldman.
Page 7-THE NEWS-June/July. 1987
Natural Resources of the Negev
Are Being Developed
Even a teacher likes a “nosh”.
Ms. Tarleton enjoying ice cream
cone.'
The children were fascinated with (upper left going clockwise) the fla
mingos, tigers, polar bears, elephants.
All that walking makes you
thirsty. (L to R) Hardar Etzioni,
Ruth Meyers, Rebecca Spangen-
thal. Photos/Roger Meyers
World Beat
Cont’d from page 4
views, reports of local Jewish
activities and drama and
music videos from Israel,
debuted recently on Manhat
tan Cable Television, Channel
J. Each program also devotes
a segment to selling Israeli
products and Judaica items.
The show is produced by
Israeli*American Television of
New York, a firm headed by
Haim Scheininger and Yuvd
Silver. They said they
welcome program sugges
tions. For information, call
(212) 840-IATV.
•
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The unleavened bread which
links Passover and Easter as
it symbolizes both the Jewish
exodus from Egypt and the
Last Supper took on a modem
binding of the two religions.
Several truckloads of matzoh
originally bound for Jews in
the Soviet Union were instead
distributed by a local church
near the White House which
feeds hundreds of people.
•
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Israel interests section in War
saw, the first Israeli
diplomatic presence in Poland
since that country broke rela
tions with Israel during the
1967 Six-Day War, opened
officially.
•
ALBANY (JTA) - A uni
versity in the People’s
RepubUc of China wiU for the
first time offer formal courses
on Israel and Judaism this
semester. Martin Edelman has
been appointed a Visiting Pro
fessor in the Department of
International Politics at Bei
jing University. Edelman, who
teaches in the Department of
Political Science at State
University of New York
(SUNY) in Albany, will teach
three courses in Beijing:
Israeli politics, Jewry and
Jewish culture, and a graduate
seminar on American politics
in the Middle East.
The natural resources of the
Negev are being harnessed.
Scientists, researchers and
agronomists have responded
to the challenge of developing
ihe region which comprises
two-thirds of the State of
Israel. They have developed
techniques and agricultural
practices that have been
adopted in the world’s most
advanced countries as well as
in developing nations. These
techniques and practices have
helped California farmers to
optimize their high vegetable
crops through drip irrigation
and have aided Kenyans to
adapt newly modified methods
of run-off farming.
The Negev, with its natural
assets of abundant solar radia
tion, warm temperatures,
large tracts of land suitable for
grazing, and the availability of
brackish and saline water,
potash, chloride, bromine and
phosphates, has become a
miniature laboratory in the
conquest of the desert.
Major enterprises and scien
tists at the Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, the
Desert Meterology Unit of the
Jacob Blaustein Institute for
Desert Research, and the l^kle
Boker Midrasha (college) are
directing research efforts to
finding ways by which the arid
and semi-arid Negev, and all
arid zones throughout the
world, may be populated.
There is experimentation in
agricultural chemicals, in com
mercial uses of potash,
bromine and bromine com
pounds — raw materials re
quired for the production of
chemical fertilizers needed by
advanced agriculture — and in
solar paneling to generate elec
trical energy. The Dead Sea,
for example, has an estimated
billion tons of recoverable
chloride and bromine, enough
for 3,000 years at the world’s
current rate of consumption.
Scientists are also ex
perimenting with salt-tolerant
crops that help desert farmers
to irrigate with saline water
sources below the surface of
the Negev. Other research is
exploring the development of
a water carrier that would
channel the Negev’s under
ground water supply, thus
utilizing about 300 million
cubic meters of water annual
ly. Off-season vegetables are a
big industry in the Negev and
there are experiments with
tomatoes that will have a
longer shelf life and with
square tomatoes that can be
boxed easier.
A joint project between the
Department of Atmospheric
Sciences of the Hebrew
University and the Blaustein
Institute has begun to experi
ment in cloud seeding.
Another area of investigation
is that of the microcUmate of
the desert, necessary for deter
mining conditions for desert
agriculture, human comfort
and the siting of desert
buildings. In order to promote
the settlement of the Negev,
the Jewish Agency’s rural set
tlement department has
prepared a five-year-plan to
help develop agro-industry
and the economic climate of
the region.
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