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God’s Negev Wilderness Field of Dreams Feeds Israel in the End Times!
€™s Negev Wilderness Field of Dreams Feeds Israel in the End Times!
September 20, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 5 through 12).
Isaiah 35:1,2 – The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. [2] It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they
shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. (See Archive Prophecy Update Number 218B)
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Field of Dreams
DAVID E. KAPLAN, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 14, 2006
Seventy-one year-old Moshe Tzori is a farmer with a guilty conscience.
“The soil has been good to me all my life, but have I been good to it?” he asks.
One would think that Tzori has engaged in some nefarious activities to warrant such misgivings about his agrarian past – but no, far from it. All he has done is exactly what most farmers traditionally do: overirrigate.
Why is that so bad?
Explains Tzori, a longtime resident of Moshav Nir Banimin in the northern Negev: “Water wastage is bad enough in a country like Israel where it is so scarce; but there is another aspect and no less disturbing – pollution. Unused agricultural water spreads harmful insecticides, pesticides and herbicides into our underground water supplies. This stuff is poison. It’s bad enough that we have to inflict our crops with it, but then to contaminate our subterranean water resources is untenable. Why? Because it is preventable.”
The bottom line, says Tzori, is that if we used only the water that was “precisely required,” our planet would be far healthier.
Tzori cites the example of Caesarea, a boutique housing estate where real estate sells for millions of dollars. He poses the question “What is causing more pollution in the area – the Hadera power station or the golf course?”
The power station, which runs on coal, pollutes the air, but with new enforced regulations, filters have been installed reducing the dangers. On the other hand, the huge expanse of the golf course is constantly over watered, and the excess water takes harmful fertilizers with it and seeps into underground aquifers. If the supply of water was controlled to provide precisely what the grass naturally requires, there would be no excess to pollute the earth below. This phenomenon, according to Tzori, is “occurring everywhere, and through water wastage pollutants are seeping into our streams, rivers and underground water resources.”
This problem had been tormenting him for years. No ivory tower analyst, Tzori was not satisfied to merely lament his past culpability as a successful farmer, so he set about working for a solution.
He believes he has succeeded.
With more than 40 years of literally “in the field” experience and supported by his highly qualified sons with technical backgrounds, five years ago Tzori came up with an invention that could revolutionize the nature and scope of husbandry.
Simply put, his CommonSensor, as he calls it, produced by his company Commonsensor Ltd. (www.common-sensor.com), is a computerized precision device that prevents inefficient water usage and dramatically reduces pollution. It enables the maximum exploitation of available water for irrigating field and greenhouse crops, as well as home and public gardens.
“The beauty of it,” he assures, “is that it leaves no residual water that contains waste fertilizers to percolate underground.”
What’s more, according to Tzori, research has shown that “there could be anywhere from a 50% to 70% saving in water costs.”
If these findings are not sufficiently persuasive, Tzori assures that “We have also found that an exact dosage of irrigation increases the quantity, as well as improving the quality of the crop. You won’t believe how much sweeter fruit tastes.”
Supporters of organic food would have little difficulty understanding why.
Lisa Cohen, the Welsh-born director of the Sharon branch of The Council for a Beautiful Israel – an advocate for organic food – makes a strong connection between the runaway use of chemicals in modern farming and the effect it has on the quality of our food.
“The fresh produce we buy in supermarkets may look good with its standardized shapes, colors and packaging, but it tastes like chemicals. We have become consumers of chemicals.
We drink them in our water and eat them in our food, leading to the high incidence of cancer in most societies,” says Cohen.
She feels that Tzori’s revelations and device are “well worth studying.”
That is precisely what has been happening for the past few years at Israel’s prestigious Volcani Institute, as well as the monitoring of some 20 units installed for commercial farming, agricultural research and home gardening.
The results, says Tzori, are excellent.
So how did he arrive at his invention?
A lifelong observer of nature and a graduate of the Kaduri Agricultural School in the Galilee, Tzori felt that who better to understand the needs of nature but nature itself. It would be arrogant to think otherwise, he says. Man assumes he understands the cyclical process of nature and turns the tap on and off at his choosing.
“He will take a hose or turn on a water sprinkler for 20, 30 or 40 minutes, but on what basis is he determining the duration?” asks Tzori. “For the most part, it’s guesswork.”
What makes his device unique is that the irrigation is plant-driven.
The plant decides when it needs water and how much. All other systems rely on a human operator to decide the times of irrigation and the amount of water supplied, regardless of the requirements of the plant.
And that seems to be the point: No one had thought to tap in to the plant to find out when it’s thirsty. All you have to do is place the device, operated by solar-heated batteries, in a critical spot in the crops, flowerbed, grass or other area and let the plant take over the automatic control of the irrigation. The selected or anchor species will make the determination for a wide area, requiring only one device, say, in a wheat field, cluster of trees or patch of grass.
What is interesting is that the amount of water released would not necessarily be at the same times or amounts each day, even if the climatic conditions appear similar.
“In the same way that all vegetation goes through cyclical changes on a seasonal basis, which are easily recognizable, it also passes through cyclical changes on a daily basis, relating to slight variations in the weather, soil and other factors that are not identifiable.
The plant senses these variations, which are picked up by the device, and it releases the right amount of water accordingly.”
Tzori says he is indebted to his sons, three of whom are highly qualified with technical backgrounds in hi-tech industries, and a fourth who is a lawyer. Patents for new inventions are not new to the Tzori family but have been mainly in the software industry.
“While I had crystallized my ideas relating to irrigation many years ago, there was little I could do to take the matter further until the dramatic advancement in micro-electromechanical technology of recent years. That is where my sons came in.”
The pivotal phase in the development came not in a laboratory but “under a tree on my mosh
av. It’s always been the favorite place for
the family to sit.
When my boys said, ‘Okay Abba, what’s your idea?’ they said, ‘Give to us, and we will come up with the technology.'”
They did, and the rest is not only history but may also be the future.
So before sprinklers and the garden hose are classified as weapons of mass destruction, Tzori’s invention may well join Israel’s impressive track record of innovative contributions to global agriculture.
End of Jerusalem Post Article
Technological Advance in Wilderness Food Production!
September 20, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Having long touted the Negev Wilderness as the forced future home of Israel
for some three and one-half years of tribulation, I have not been surprised by the numerous recent technological agricultural discoveries made in research, which will produce more and better quality crops in the Negev. The latest discovery in the Arutz Sheva Israel National News is a welcome addition to the other discoveries, which we have mentioned in our Prophecy Updates and Blog releases over the last six years.
If you will take the time to read Archive Prophecy Updates 5 through 12, it will give you an insight as to the importance of the latest discovery in increasing plant growth in many soil profiles that exist in the Negev. These discoveries will be a blessing to the woman Israel in Revelation 12:6, once she is driven into the Negev by an Islamic Jihad. And, during the Millennial Reign of Messiah, which begins some three and one-half years later when Israel drives out of the Negev north to Hamath in Syria, east to the Euphrates River, and west to the Mediterranean Sea and River of Egypt during Armageddon, the desert and the wilderness will be filled with great botanical production for a thousand years.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Isaiah 27:6 – He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
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Israeli Research Paves the Way to Grow Crops in Saline Land
Monday, July 10, 2006 / 14 Tammuz 5766
Israeli researchers from Haifa University’s Institute of Evolution have isolated a gene that withstands salinity – meaning a great increase in the amount of worldwide land available for agriculture.
Prof. Evyatar Nevo, director of the Institute, told David Brinn of Israel 21c.org that the new research “will contribute to a significant increase in the amount of arable land available for agriculture.”
Of the earth’s 57 million square miles of land, only about 12 million (21%) can be used for growing crops – and that amount is diminishing by 1% every three years. The new research will make it possible to grow plants and crops in saline earth – land that has been affected by too much salt in soil or in irrigation water. Brinn reports that modern methods of irrigation and fertilization of crops have caused much of the arable lands around the world to become saline.
Prof. Nevo’s team studied fungi in the Dead Sea, which is ten times more salty than the oceans. “We became interested in the fungi’s genetic resources,” Nevo said, “[asking] what made them thrive in the salty Dead Sea.”
A common fungal species known as Eurotium herbariorum was isolated from the lake. One of Nevo’s doctoral students, Yan Jin, from China, then isolated and sequenced the HOG gene that is responsible, in concert with other genes, for the fungus’ ability to defend itself from the salinity of the Dead Sea.
The gene was introduced into ‘saccharomyces cerevisiae’ – better known as baker’s yeast – and the team observed that the resultant transgenic yeast was able to tolerate more salt than normal. The new yeast was also able to better withstand extreme heat and cold.
The results of the study were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS] of the United States.
The next step was to transfer the gene into
the model plants Arabi-dopsis – successfully making it salt-resistant.
“The genetic salt resistant resources of the Dead Sea could be very important for revolutionizing saline agriculture around the world,” Nevo concluded. “If we can transform this gene and other genes we’ve cloned, we’ll be able to improve crop production by making them salt tolerant and enable the growth of crops like wheat in a tepid desert area. Our goal is to develop a battery of salt resistant genes to be used for crop improvement.”
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