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Irrigation - taking Israeli know-how to China  CJF - Israeli Drip Irrigation in China: Making the Desert Bloom. ... Israel is a small country that has a wide range of soil types, climate and topography. .... These plots are of sizes that permit the use of modern agro-technology and the ... As an irrigation engineer and chartered environmentalist I have seen many exotic places.
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How to Make a Desert Bloom - WSJ  Oct 6, 2015 ... He argues that Israel's example of making the desert bloom through a mixture of grit, ... allocates it according to what is seen as the highest, best use. ... Stop watering fish in the Bay and San Fran might not have a problem.
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Learning the value of water in Israel | Aspen Journalism  May 23, 2014 ... TEL AVIV  Crossing the Negev Desert in Israel by bicycle in 100-degree ... There was hardly a green thing to be seen  few trees or shrubs ... In the dry Middle East, collecting, storing and making the best use of .... The Israelis have made the desert bloom by using high-tech irrigation techniques with water...
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10 top ways Israel fights desertification | ISRAEL21c  Jul 15, 2012 ... You can't talk about Israel's success in making the desert bloom without ... drip irrigation was pioneered in the field by farmers, and is widely used across Israel ... Scientists here have done incredible work on improving Israeli...
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From far beneath the Israeli desert, water sustains a fertile enterprise  Jan 2, 2007 ... Fish farming in the desert may at first sound like an anomaly, but in Israel a ... Scientists here say they realized they were on to something when they ... like drip irrigation, has found ways to use low-quality water and what is ... mistake of God that we have to correct and make the desert bloom, .... Type Size.
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Jerusalem's Water Supply In Antiquity - Jerusalem on My Mind ...  Since the times of King David, Jerusalem holds the central role in the history of our civilization. ... its origin in the Kidron Valley through Hezekiah's tunnel and to Siloam Pool is ... If the city came under siege, it would eventually run out of water and ... Gihon spring in the Kidron Valley to the Pool of Siloam inside the city walls.
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Isaiah 35:1 - GNT - The desert will rejoice, and flowers...  Isaiah 35:1 - GNT - The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom. ... and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. .... world would be filled with joy on account of the blessings which are here predicted.
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Israeli wine - Wikipedia  Israeli wine is produced by hundreds of wineries, ranging in size from small boutique ... In the late 1960s, Carmel Winery was the first Israeli winery to make a dry ... has emerged as a driving force for winemaking in the Eastern Mediterranean, .... were grown in the country under Muslim-rule were not used to produce wine,...
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LESSON 2 The Arab-Israeli Conflict e a s ae Co ct The Arab-Israeli ...  Within three days, the Israelis had taken the Sinai Desert and reached the Suez Canal. .... The Suez Canal is a shortcut for ships sailing between the Mediterranean Sea .... Most of these ... On 5 June Israel destroyed about 370 Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian aircraft. .... A new cease-fire took effect on 7 August 1970.
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The Nile River A GifT From The Gods"  flood. As The flood waTers receded, black rich ferTile soil was lefT behind. The ancienT EgypTian called This rich soil The Giff of The. Nile. ... The Nile Delta was nicknamed Khemet, the Arabic word meaning, Black Land, because of the color of the land after ... The Egyptians used the Nile's water to irrigate their crops.
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Jordan River | river, Middle East | Britannica.com  Jan 12, 2016 ... After 1948 the river marked the frontier between Israel and Jordan from just ... The Jordan Valley constitutes a segment of the extensive East African Rift ... some 23 square miles (60 square km) were drained to form agricultural land. ... Deganyathe oldest kibbutz (collective agricultural settlement) in Israel,...
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Dead Sea | lake, Asia | Britannica.com  Jan 21, 2016 ... Landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan in southwestern Asia. ... HaMela (Salt Sea), also called Salt Sea, landlocked salt lake between Israel ... The Jordan River, from which the Dead Sea receives nearly all its water, ... subdivided into dozens of large evaporation pools (for the extraction of salt),...
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Amazing Secrets of Israel's Jordan River Crossing  Tragically, the generation of Israelites that departed Egypt with Moses angered ... out from Shittim (Acacia Grove) until they arrive at the edge of the Jordan River. ... Recall that Joshua 4:23 compares the Jordan crossing to the Red Sea event and ... The exodus generation apparently did not repent, and therefore did not have...
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Jaffa orange - Wikipedia  The Jaffa orange, also Shamouti orange, is a sweet, almost seedless orange variety with a .... At the end of 1928, Jews owned 30,000 dunams of the country's 60,000 dunams of orange orchards. .... Agriculture in Israel  Crops originating from Asia  Flora of Western Asia  History of Palestine (region)  Israeli brands  Orange...
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12 facts about the Sea of Galilee - POLITICO  Aug 20, 2012 ... It's the largest freshwater lake in Israel  64 square miles, nearly the size of Washington, D.C. ... to by Israelis as the Kinneret, which is Hebrew for violin, considered ... the lake's west edge and is considered one of Israel's holy cities. ... and the surrounding area grows cotton, alfalfa, bananas and dates.
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Saudi Aramco World : The Greening of the Arab East: The Progress  To achieve them, Saudi Arabia has invested billions of dollars in agricultural equipment ... One of the most ambitious dairy projects so far is the Saudi Arabian Agriculture ... On what was barren desert less than four years ago, luxuriant green alfalfa now ..... East Ghor Canal Authority, officials started to break up the large land...
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exegesis - What is the significance of the names of the 4 rivers in the ...  Mar 25, 2014 ... I know the 3rd, Tigris River, and 4th, Euphrates River both exist, but what of the ... 10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it...
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Cedar of Lebanon ~ The wood of this tree was used by Solomon in ...  Cedar of Lebanon ~ The wood of this tree was used by Solomon in the ... Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. ... David used it in building his palace and Solomon used it in the construction of the temple and a palace...
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Ceder Wood in the Temple | God as a Gardener  Mar 5, 2012 ... In the fourth year (960 B.C.) of Solomon's reign as king over a combined Israel and Judah, he started to build a Temple to God. ... Several types of wood were used in the temple construction, e.g., cedar, ... The timber was transported by rafts from Lebanon at Joppa, the port for Jerusalem. ... Symbolism: Firm.
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Joshua Tree - Yucca brevifolia - DesertUSA  The Joshua Tree, the largest of the yuccas, grows only in the Mojave Desert. ... Although old Joshua trees can sprout new plants from their roots, only the seeds produced in pollinated flowers ... Mormon pioneers are said to have named this species "Joshua" tree because it mimicked the Old ... Joshua Tree National Park
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Early River Valley Civilizations, 3500 BC450 BC - Community Unit ...  SETTING THE STAGE Two rivers flow from the mountains of what is now ... planted grain in this rich, new soil and irrigated the fields with river water. The ..... The Gift of the Nile As in Mesopotamia, yearly flooding brought the water and .... however, the Egyptians did have a good supply of stone, both granite and lime- stone.