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Episode: “A Place of Still Waters”

From a vantage point overlooking the waterfalls of En Gedi, Zola recalls the streams in the desert mentioned by Isaiah and explains the importance of water to this arid region. We visit an agriculture tradeshow in Haifa and an innovative greenhouse in the Negev.

Series: “This Is Israel”

Tired of waiting 20 years for CNN and the other networks to show Israel as the modern, beautiful country it really is, Zola and his crew decided to do it themselves. Viewers will be as surprised as our pilgrims to see that this much-criticized nation is at least the equal of our own and in some ways superior!

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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of Still Waters” (11/12)

00:04 ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO THE WATERS
00:05 OF THE MIRACULOUS WATERS >>OF THE SPRING EN-GEDI.
00:07 AND THEN, WE'LL DISCUSS HOW THE ISRAELIES MANAGED TO KEEP THIS LAND BLOSSOMING.
00:13 [ music playing ]
00:50 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN, >> AND WELCOME BACK TO OUR
00:52 "THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES."
00:54 YOU MAY HAVE SEEN SPRINKLERS GOING,
00:56 BIG SPRINKERS IN AN OPEN FIELD,
00:58 IN THE OPENING FOOTAGE OF THE PROGRAM.
01:01 WATER IS IN MIGHTY SHORT SUPPLY IN ISRAEL, I'LL TELL YOU THAT.
01:04 AND MOST OF THE TIME >> THEY USE DRIP IRRIGATION
01:08 AND OTHER INGENOUS WAYS TO PRESERVE WATER AS WE'LL SEE LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
01:14 WE'LL TAKE YOU TO A GREENHOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT.
01:18 AND THEN TO AN AGRICULTURAL TRADE SHOW IN HYFFA WHERE THE
01:22 WORLD'S LEADING AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS COME TO MEET WITH THE
01:27 ISRAELIES WHO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LEADERS IN THIS FIELD.
01:32 BUT FIRST, WE ARE GOING >> TO GO TO A SPRING THAT'S >>MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
01:35 EN-GEDI.
01:37 AND EN-GEDI IS OVER HERE NEAR THE DEAD SEA.
01:40 IT IS MIRACULOUS.
01:41 THE DEAD SEA IS VERY SALTY WATER.
01:44 IT'S CALLED DEAD >>BECAUSE NOTHING IS ALIVE THERE.
01:48 BUT JUST TO THE NORTH OF IT REALLY,
01:50 A SHORT DISTANCE IS A SPRING COMING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS FROM JERUSALEM MORE OR LESS.
01:56 THAT'S WHAT IS ABOVE IT.
01:58 AND FRESH WATER, AND COOL WATER.
02:01 AND IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PLACE OF REDOUBT IN THE DESERT.
02:04 IN OTHER WORDS IF YOU HAVE A REASON TO STOP SOMEWHERE THAT'S NOT OBVIOUS,
02:10 IF YOU WANT TO HIDE,
02:11 SUCH AS KING DAVID WAS HIDING FROM KING SAUL.
02:14 HE WENT THERE TO EN-GEDI >> AND IT'S MENTIONED BY NAME,
02:18 AND THERE HE HAD FRESH WATER, BUT HE WAS CONCEALED.
02:21 YOU COULD STOP AT JERICHO, BUT PEOPLE COULD SEE YOU FOR MILES AROUND.
02:24 IT'S FLAT LAND.
02:25 BUT THIS SPRING IS HIDDEN UP IN THE ROCKS,
02:27 IN THE MOUNTAINS AND REALLY IS A MIRACULOUS PLACE.
02:39 WELL, OUR SUBJECT IS STILL WATERS.
02:42 AND YOU FIND THEM ALL OVER ISRAEL IN THE DARNEST PLACES.
02:45 THIS IS THE HILLS OF JUDEA, A ROUGH, TOUGH DESERT AND YET,
02:51 WONDERFUL WATER SPRINGS COME OUT OF THE VERY MOUNTAINS.
02:54 EN-GEDI IS ONE OF THOSE.
02:55 IT MEANS GOAT SPRING AND FRESH WATER RELIABLY POURS OUT OF THE
02:59 MOUNTAIN IN SUCH A WAY AS TO PROVIDE EVEN A REFUGE FOR KING DAVID.
03:06 YOU RECALL WHEN KING DAVID HID FROM SAUL AND SAUL SENT 3000 MEN
03:10 TO GET DAVID, HE AND HIS MEN HID OUT IN THESE VERY HILLS
03:15 AND WERE REFRESHED BY THIS WATER.
03:18 THE GOAT SPRINGS ARE IN JUDEA AND THAT'S PART OF
03:21 THE TERRITORY AND THEY ARE CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT
03:23 THE SCRIPTURES FOR THEIR SUSTENANCE AND THEIR POETRY AND EVEN THEIR ROMANCE.
03:30 SONG OF SOLOMON SAYS:
03:43 IN ZECHARIAH 14:8, WE LEARN THAT AT THE VERY END,
03:45 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WILL CLEAVE INTO AND WATER WILL COME.
03:47 IT SAYS TO THE FOREMOST SEA AND THE HINDER SEAS.
03:50 DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS HAVE IT DIFFERENTLY.
03:53 WATER WILL POUR DOWN OVER THE TOP OF THESE MOUNTAINS FROM
03:56 JERUSALEM AT LAST AND REALLY INUNDATE THIS PLACE.
04:00 AS IT IS NOW, WATER IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN ISRAEL.
04:04 THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT USES 90 PERCENT OF ITS WATER FOR IRRIGATION.
04:09 THAT IS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE IN THE WORLD THAT IS USED FOR
04:11 IRRIGATION AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO FEED THE PEOPLE.
04:16 BUT THERE ARE STREAMS EVERYWHERE.
04:18 EVEN IN THE DESERT.
04:20 ISAIAH 43 HAS A GREAT DEAL TO SAY ABOUT IT.
04:49 AND ISAIAH IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
04:51 THE BIBLE IS FULL OF SUCH SUSTAINING WATERS.
04:55 DAVID BEN-GURION LOVED THE VERSE AND EVEN HAD IT ON HIS DESK,
04:59 THE STREAMS AND THE DESERT
05:01 CONCEPT WHICH APPEARS SEVERAL >> TIMES IN THE SCRIPTURES.
05:04 IT IS SORT OF >> A FEATURE OF REDEMPTION,
05:07 A LAND THAT IS THANKLESS AND HOPELESS,
05:09 AND YET, WITH THESE STREAMS, >> YOU REALIZE GOD HAS DONE
05:12 SOMETHING TO SUSTAIN HIS PEOPLE OUT HERE.
05:15 DAVID BEN-GURION, YOU KNOW, WAS A TRACTOR DRIVER ON A KIBBUTZ.
05:19 HE WAS THE FIRST >> PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL.
05:21 HE WAS CALLED TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY IN THAT IMPORTANT
05:24 CAPACITY AND AFTER HE WAS THROUGH AS PRIME MINISTER,
05:27 WHEN HIS TERM WAS OVER, HE WENT BACK TO THE KIBBUTZ
05:30 AND RESUMED HIS JOB AS A TRACTOR DRIVER.
05:32 AND AS THE STORY GOES, THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD WOULD COME
05:38 AND WAIT ON HIS KIBBUTZ DOWN IN THE DESERT --
05:44 A SIMILAR DESERT TO THIS -- AND HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE END
05:47 OF THE DAY UNTIL HE CAME IN FROM HIS TRACTOR ROUNDS IN ORDER TO
05:50 CONSULT WITH HIM >>ABOUT MATTERS OF STATE.
06:02 ALL MEN FEEL THIS IDEA OF JUST STILL, SOFT, FRESH WATER IN THE
06:07 DESERT AS BEING >> A SIGN OF GOD'S COMFORT.
06:24 THAT IS REALLY THE THEME OF THIS PROMISED LAND.
06:27 THE HUNGRY CAME HERE TO DWELL AND PREPARE THE LAND
06:29 FOR HABITATION AND SO THEY DO INHABIT IT AND THEY LIVE HERE.
06:34 ISAIAH SPEAKS OF SPRINGS >>OF WATER COMING FORTH.
06:38 AND 40 YEARS PROVISION IN THE DESERT TO THE PEOPLE
06:43 WHO WERE OUT THERE >> BESIDES STREAM OF WATER,
06:46 THE MANNA FROM HEAVEN CAME TO THEM.
06:50 AND THEY WERE ABLE TO EAT ALL OF THE TIME
06:53 THAT THEY WERE OUT IN THE DESERT.
06:54 AND THEN WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE LAND, JOSHUA SAYS:
07:05 IT WAS EXACTLY ON SCHEDULE AND GOD LET IT GO WHEN THEY DIDN'T >> NEED IT ANYMORE.
07:08 WHEN THEY CAME INTO THEIR LAND, IT WAS THEIR LAND.
07:10 THIS IS A POINT I WANT TO MAKE.
07:12 LEVITICUS, YOU KNOW YOU OFTEN HEAR THE ARGUMENT FROM PEOPLE
07:17 THAT WOULD WANT THE LAND AND NOT TO GIVE IT TO THE ISRAEL.
07:21 THESE DAYS, PALESTINIANS ARE SAYING THEY ARE DESCENDED FROM
07:23 PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE EVEN >>BEFORE THE ISRAELITES WERE HERE.
07:27 THAT ISN'T TRUE IN THE LEAST.
07:29 BUT LET'S SAY THEY WERE.
07:31 LET'S SAY THEY REALLY ARE RELATED ARE TO THE CANAANITES.
07:34 THEY'RE NOT, BUT >> LET'S SAY THEY WERE.
07:36 EVEN IF THEY WERE, LEVITICUS 20:24 SAYS THIS.
07:54 HE'S SAYING TO THEM.
07:55 I KNOW THERE ARE >>PEOPLE IN THE LAND BEFORE YOU.
07:57 IT IS NOT AN EMPTY LAND WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
07:59 BUT I AM GIVING YOU THEIR LAND
08:01 BECAUSE YOU ARE A PECULIAR PEOPLE, MY CHOSEN PEOPLE, AND YOU RECEIVE THEIR LAND.
08:06 SO AS FAR AS THE ARGUMENT GOING THAT PALESTINIANS ARE RELATED TO
08:11 CANAANITES OR THOSE WHO PRECEDED IN ISRAEL, IT STILL DOESN'T HOLD WATER IF YOU BELIEVE SCRIPTURE.
08:19 NOW, ISRAEL HAS CULTIVATED THIS LAND,
08:21 DONE SO WELL IN THE IRRIGATING, THAT IT RAISES 95 PERCENT OF ITS OWN FOOD.
08:27 THAT IS A VERY HIGH PERCENTAGE ESPECIALLY FOR A COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
08:31 IF YOU COMPARE THE ARAB NATIONS, WHY IT IS NO WHERE NEAR IT.
08:34 NO ARAB NATION, EVEN THE RICHEST RAISES ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED ITSELF.
08:39 THEY TYPICALLY IMPORT THE FOODS.
08:42 INDIA HAS A PROBLEM.
08:43 CHINA HAS A PROBLEM.
08:44 ALL OVER THE THIRD WORLD >> HAS A PROBLEM RAISING ENOUGH
08:47 FOOD TO FEED THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
08:50 BUT ISRAEL HAS IT FIGURED OUT AND THEY ARE DOING IT WELL.
08:55 FURTHERMORE, THEY DO 32 AND HALF BILLION A YEAR IN EXPORTS.
08:59 THEY RAISE SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE EXPORTING FOOD
09:02 TO OTHER COUNTRIES, AND IN A >> VERY SIGNIFICANT MOMENT,
09:08 THEY ARE EXPORTING ROSES.
09:10 YOU KNOW, ISAIAH SAID THE DESERT >> SHALL BLOSSOM AS A ROSE.
09:14 AND THEY HAVE RECENTLY BECOME LEADING EXPORTERS OF ROSES.
09:19 THEY SENT A MILLION ROSES TO BRITAIN FOR THE FUNERAL OF PRINCESS DI.
09:27 THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT.
09:30 HE MAKETH ME TO LIE >> DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES.
09:34 HE LEADETH ME BESIDES THE STILL WATERS.
09:36 HE RESTORETH MY SOUL.
09:39 HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAMESAKE.
09:44 YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH,
09:48 I WILL FEAR NO EVIL.
09:50 THOU ART WITH ME.
09:52 THY ROD AND THY STAFF, THEY COMFORT ME.
09:56 THOU HATH PREPARETH A TABLE
09:58 BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES.
10:01 THOU ANOINEST MY HEAD WITH OIL, MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.
10:06 SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY >> SHALL FOLLOW ME
10:10 ALL OF THE DAYS OF MY LIFE
10:12 AND I WILL DWELL IN THE >> HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER.
10:19 [ music playing ]
10:30 IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO PETER, JAMES AND JOHN FIRSTHAND
10:33 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT?
10:36 I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW LIFE WAS LIKE AT THAT TIME.
10:41 WHY THEY DID THE THINGS THEY DID AND THE CUSTOMS.
10:43 I WOULD SAY, "LET ME FOLLOW YOU AND LET ME LEARN FROM YOU.
10:46 "LET ME LEARN FROM WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND GROW."
10:48 AND IT IS A LIFE-LONG EXPERIENCE.
10:50 IT'S LEARNING.
10:51 WELL, I'M A WOMAN.
10:52 I'M A GRANDMA.
10:53 I WOULD LOVE TO HUG THEM, FORGIVE ME.
10:55 I WOULD WANT THEM TO TELL ME ALL ABOUT JESUS, WOULDN'T YOU?
11:01 VISIT WITH THE DISCIPLES ON ZOLA'S NEXT TRIP
11:04 TO THE HOLY LAND.
11:06 FOR INFORMATION CALL:
11:11 YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE A PART OF IT
11:13 EVEN THOUGH IT IS 2000 YEARS AGO.
11:20 WELL, COME AND SEE THIS LAND FOR YOURSELF.
11:21 GOSH, IT IS A SHAME TO SHOW YOU THROUGH A LITTLE TELEVISION LENS
11:25 A MAGNIFICENT PLACE LIKE THIS.
11:27 THIS COME ON OUR TOUR, GO ON SOMEBODY'S TOUR, BUT GET OVER THERE IN THIS LIFE.
11:30 I REALLY RECOMMEND IT.
11:32 IT IS AMAZING HOW THE LAND HAS BLOSSOMED.
11:34 YOU KNOW, ISAIAH SAID THE DESERT WILL BLOSSOM AS A ROSE.
11:37 AND PEOPLE MENTION THAT ISRAEL IS AN EXPORTER OF ROSES, WHICH IT IS.
11:42 BUT WE WENT TO THE ARAVA, THIS IS, YOU KNOW,
11:45 NO ROSES GROWING RIGHT THERE.
11:47 IT IS SOUTH OF THE DEAD SEA.
11:49 IT IS IN A DEEP LAND RIFT.
11:51 IT IS HOT AND DRY.
11:52 BUT DOWN THERE, THERE IS EXPERIMENTS
11:54 WITH FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES, TOO.
11:57 AND KEN TALKED WITH EZRA RAVINS ABOUT DESERT AGRICULTURE.
12:03 THERE IS SUCH A THING AND THE ISRAELIES ARE REALLY
12:06 ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF THIS STUFF.
12:08 AND THIS IS SO VERY IMPORTANT.
12:11 YOU KNOW, IF YOU COULD MAKE THE DESERTS OF THE WORLD PRODUCE,
12:14 I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD EVER BE A FOOD PROBLEM AGAIN.
12:18 IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD DO FOR AFRICA IF THE ENTIRE SAHARA COULD PRODUCE FOOD.
12:22 IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD DO >> FOR THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE
12:26 IF THE GOBI DESERT WOULD PRODUCE FOOD.
12:29 AND THE ISRAELIES ARE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF THIS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AREA.
12:33 THEY ARE MAKING THE DESERT PRODUCE FOOD AND WE TALKED >> WITH THE EXPERT ON THAT.
12:40 YHE AIM OF THE ARAVA IN ARAVA >> VALLEY IS TO FIND A WAY TO
12:47 SETTLE THE REGION >>WITH MORE PEOPLE, MORE FARMERS,
12:53 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THE FUTURE OF THE FARMING IN ISRAEL
12:58 WILL BE IN THE SOUTHERN, >>DESERT PARTS OF ISRAEL WHERE WE HAVE ENOUGH WATER.
13:03 WHERE DOES THE WATER COME FROM?
13:06 THE WATER COMES FROM DIFFERENT KINDS OF WELLS,
13:09 BETWEEN 150 METERS TO 1500 METERS.
13:13 WE HAVE SWEET WATER.
13:15 PERHAPS THE SWEETEST WATER IN THE COUNTRY AND WE HAVE VERY SALTY WATER.
13:19 AND WHAT WE DO IS MIX THE WATER, THE TWO KINDS OF WATER,
13:23 WE MIX TOGETHER AND WE BRING THEM TO THE AGRICULTURE GREENHOUSES.
13:30 WELL, HOW ARE COMPUTERS USED HERE?
13:32 ALMOST ALL OF THE FARMERS IN AGRICULTURE TODAY AND FOR SURE
13:37 IN THIS REGION, THE FARM IS CONTROLLED BY COMPUTER.
13:40 FROM WATERING, FERTILIZING AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY,
13:46 CLIMATE CONTROL IN GREENHOUSES, IT CAN BE CHECKING HUMIDITY.
13:51 CHECKING RADIATION.
13:53 OPEN UP AND CLOSING CURTAINS.
13:55 AND ADDING ON SPECIAL THINGS, FOR EXAMPLE, SPRINKLING COOLING SYSTEM, HEATING SYSTEM,
14:03 EVEN WARM CO-2 AND COLD CO-2.
14:06 DESCRIBE WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN THE ROSES GREENHOUSE.
14:10 THE SYSTEM YOU SAW IN THE ROSES IS RECYCLING WATER.
14:17 IT IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE TO DEVELOP IN THE MIDDLE EAST
14:19 BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF >> PROBLEMS WITH WATER.
14:23 TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE WATER AGAIN AND AGAIN.
14:26 AND WHEN YOU USE THE WATER, FROM THE BEGINNING IT IS SALTY
14:30 AND YOU PUT ON CHEMICALS FOR THE WATER AND IT GETS SALTIER AND >> SALTIER.
14:34 YOU HAVE TO LEARN EXACTLY WHEN THE WATER IS TOO SALTY AND THEN >> YOU DUMP IT OUT.
14:40 AND DO THE RECYCLING AGAIN.
14:42 THE IDEA IS TO SAVE WATER.
14:44 BECAUSE WHAT WE DO TODAY, 99 PERCENT OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE REGION,
14:49 WE WATER IN THE GROUND SOIL AND THE WATER GOES DOWN AND WE LOSE A LOT OF WATER.
14:56 WE DISCOVERED A FEW YEARS AGO >> AFTER ALL OF THE EXPERTS
15:01 SAID IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GROW ROSES IN THE DESERT.
15:06 WE FOUND OUT FROM THE AUCTIONS IN HOLLAND WHERE WE SELL ROSES,
15:12 IS THAT THE BEST QUALITY >>OF THE ROSES GROWN IN THE DESERT
15:15 BECAUSE OF THE CONDITIONS HERE.
15:17 TELL ME ABOUT THE EXPORTS THAT YOU HAVE HERE IN ISRAEL.
15:21 WE ARE ABOUT 50 PERCENT EXPORT
15:24 FROM FRESH VEGETABLES FROM ISRAEL.
15:27 AND ABOUT 15 OR 20 PERCENT OF THE EXPORT OF FLOWERS FROM ISRAEL.
15:32 WE EXPORT MAINLY TO EUROPE.
15:35 PEPPERS, MELONS, AND TOMATOES.
15:38 TOMATOES ON THE VINE, CHERRY ON THE VINE.
15:41 AND WE ALSO EXPORT TO THE UNITED STATES PEPPERS AND TOMATOES,
15:47 CHERRY TOMATOES IS PART OF THE CAMPAIGN CALLED
15:51 "THE CLEAN AIR CAMPAIGN" >>WHERE WE EXPORT OUT OF AN AREA
15:54 THAT IS CLEAN, DECLARED A PEST-FREE AREA FROM THE >> MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY.
16:01 WHAT ABOUT PESTICIDES?
16:03 WE HAVE A BIG PROJECT TOGETHER >> WITH THE JORDANIANS WITH
16:08 BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY WHERE WE
16:11 RELEASE EVERY WEEK, 12 MILLION STERILIZED FLIES,
16:16 MALES OVER THE REGION AND WE'RE CLEANING THE REGION FROM THE
16:21 MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY AND WE HOPE TO DECLARE IT
16:25 AS A PEST-FREE AREA, THE WHOLE REGION.
16:37 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, AN ANOMALY ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST.
16:39 THE ARAB COUNTRIES HAVING FORTUNES, MOST OF THEM WITH THE OIL AND SO ON.
16:45 ISRAEL SHOULD BE HUNGRY.
16:47 IT'S MADE OF IMMIGRANTS AND IT HAS A TERRIBLE DEFENSE
16:51 TO SUPPORT AND SO ON.
16:53 AND YET, THE ARAB COUNTRIES STRUGGLE TO FEED THEMSELVES
16:56 WHILE ISRAEL IS ABLE TO EXPORT VEGETABLES
16:58 AND FLOWERS AND SO ON.
17:00 THE DESERT HAS TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL TO FEED STILL MORE.
17:03 AND THEY ARE STILL WORKING ON THAT.
17:05 NOW FOR 14 YEARS, ISRAEL HAS HOSTED
17:08 AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, THE AGRITECH CONFERENCE WHICH
17:13 BRINGS TOGETHER EXPERTS OF AGRICULTURE OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
17:17 THEY COME TO ISRAEL TO LEARN FROM THE ISRAELIES WHAT THEY
17:21 HAVE DONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE IT SO WELL.
17:24 DO YOU THINK CNN OR THE NETWORKS WOULD MENTION THIS OR GIVE
17:27 CREDIT FOR WHAT ISRAEL DOES?
17:29 IT OUT-PRODUCES SOME OF THE BEST FARMLAND IN IOWA.
17:32 IT HAS DONE THAT SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1948 WITH THE KIBBUTZ AND SO ON.
17:38 AND YOU KNOW, OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD KNOW AND WANT TO LEARN
17:43 ABOUT HOW TO DO, >> JUST COME TO ISRAEL TO LEARN.
17:45 SO WE SENT OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG AND HE TALKED TO DAN MERIE,
17:50 WHO IS THE GENERAL MANAGER OF >> THE AGRITECH CONFERENCE.
18:00 THE PURPOSE OF THIS AGRITECH AND ALL AGRITECHS IS
18:03 FIRST OF ALL, MAKE THE FARMERS OF ISRAEL
18:08 FAMILIAR WMTH THE INNOVATIONS AND THE INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH.
18:12 AND THE SECOND PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE OUR PRODUCTS
18:18 AND ABILITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
18:22 TELL ME SPECIFICALLY HOW >> MANY PEOPLE ARE HERE
18:23 AND THE FACT THAT THIS HAS BEEN A PROFITABLE AGRITECH FOR YOU.
18:26 WE HAVE ABOUT 9000 FOREIGN VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
18:31 AND VISITORS, INCLUDING THOSE FROM ABROAD.
18:39 FARMERS, FAMILIES ARE COMING TO SEE WHAT IS FOR THEM IN INTEREST.
18:43 WE HAVE 350 EXHIBITORS AND RIGHT NOW THOSE ARE THE FIGURES.
18:51 THE FIGURES ARE INDEED IMPRESSIVE.
18:54 IN 1999, ISRAELI FLOWER GROWERS REPORTED SHIPPING
18:57 6 BILLION FLOWERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES.
19:02 ORGANIC FARMERS REPORTING EXPORTING 842 TONS OF FRUIT IN 1999
19:08 AND 1,667 TONS OF VEGETABLES.
19:11 THAT'S AN INCREASE OF 100 PERCENT OVER THE PAST YEAR.
19:15 THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID IT LIKE THIS.
19:17 THE WILDERNESS AND THE DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
19:20 THE WILDERNESS AND DESERT SHALL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM LIKE THE ROSE.
19:23 IT SHALL BLOSSOM ABUNTANTLY
19:24 AND REJOICE EVEN >> WITH JOY UNSPEAKABLE.
19:27 THEN SHALL THE LAME MAN LEAP
19:28 AND THE TONGUE OF THE DUMB SHALL SING FOR JOY.
19:32 FOR WATER SHALL BREAK FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS
19:34 AND STREAMS AND DESERTS AND THE PARCHED GROUND SHALL BECOME A
19:37 POOL AND THIRSTY LAND IN SPRINGS OF WATER.
19:41 IN THE HABITATION OF THE JACKALS, WHERE EACH LAY
19:44 SHALL BE GRASS WITH TREES AND BRUSHES.
19:47 THIS IS A NEW CONTROL VALVE
19:49 WHICH IS A DEVELOPMENT
19:50 OF AN ISRAELY INVENTOR.
19:53 WE DETERMINE COUPLINKS FOR ALL KINDS OF PIPES, STEEL PIPES, ET CETERA.
20:02 AND PURCHASED THIS PATENT WHICH IS AN INTERNATIONAL PATENT
20:07 WRITTEN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
20:09 AND WE ARE NOW TRYING TO, STARTING TO MANUFACTURE IT HERE IN ISRAEL.
20:14 IN THE IRRIGATION COMPANIES IN THE WORLD, OUR UNIQUENESS
20:22 IS WITH THE CONTRIBUBUTION OF THREE OR FOUR MAJOR IRRIGATION CONCEPTS.
20:29 WE ARE NOT PUSHING ONE SYSTEM,
20:32 BUT MANUFACTURE FOUR DIFFERENT >> SOLUTION FOR IRRIGATION.
20:37 WE ARE ABLE TO SELECT FOR SOUTH AMERICA ONE SYSTEM SOLUTION
20:46 AND FOR INDIA, ANOTHER SOLUTION.
20:48 TO JAPAN ONE SYSTEM AND TO THE STATES ANOTHER SYSTEM.
20:51 WE HEARD ABOUT ACRITECH AT THE LAST YEAR AND WE THINK IT IS A
20:57 VERY FAMOUS EXHIBITION AND A VERY GOOD EXHIBITION WHERE THE
21:01 VISITORS COME >> FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
21:05 AND WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED TO COME TO ISRAEL TO MAKE
21:08 CONTACT TO ISRAEL, TO ISRAEL CUSTOMER AND INDUSTRY.
21:14 WE CHECK THE HUMIDITY WITH THE FIBERS AND
21:22 PREVENT ILLNESS IN THE PLANTS.
21:24 IS NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD
21:26 DOING THIS RIGHT NOW?
21:27 NO, NO.
21:28 WE ARE THE FIRST ONE.
21:30 WHEN THE COW COMES IN THE WEIGHT OF THE FOOD IS RECORDED AND TIME
21:34 IS RECORDED ON THE COMPUTER.
21:37 AND WHEN THE CROPS COME OUT,
21:39 TIME OF COMING OUT AND THE WEIGHT OF THE FOOD IS RECORDED.
21:45 SO WE KNOW EVERY MEAL THE DURATION OF THE COWS IN THE
21:48 STATION AND THE FOOD CONSUMPTIONS OF EVERY COW OF EVERY MEAL.
21:53 IT IS THE FAMOUS PRODUCT OF THE AGRITECH.
21:59 IT IS A ROBOT THAT IS CUTTING THE LAWN AUTOMATICALLY WITHOUT HUMAN BEING TOUCH.
22:07 AND HE'S DOG THE WORK ITSELF.
22:11 THIS IS WATERING THE PLANT.
22:13 IT CAN BE WATERING OR SPRAYING.
22:15 EITHER ONE.
22:16 YOU CAN PUT ON IT SPRAYER AND IT SPRAYS ON WATER AND THE SMALL YOUNG PLANT.
22:22 AND DO IT EQUALLY.
22:24 IT IS EQUAL THAN >> ANY OTHER WAY OF WATERING.
22:27 IT GOES AND WATER ONE SPEED AND CONTROL THE SPEED GOING BACK.
22:33 IT IS FULLY CONTROLLED, THE SPEED.
22:36 WE TRY IN ISRAEL TO FIND >> SOME SYSTEM TO SAVE WATER.
22:40 THEN WE FIND A SYSTEM TO SAVE WATER AND THEN WE FIND THAT THIS
22:43 SYSTEM NOT ONLY SAVE WATER IT SAVE FERTILIZER AND GIVE BETTER CROPS.
22:47 AND FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, IT IS BETTER WAY TO IRRIGATE.
22:53 WE ARE EXPORTING IT TO 40 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.
22:57 AND IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, MAKE OUR FACTORY PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
23:02 AND PRODUCE IN THE UNITED STATES, TOO.
23:05 I WILL PLANT IN THE WILDERNESS THE SEED AND THE MYRTLE AND THE OLIVE TREE.
23:11 I WILL SET IN THE DESERT THE FUR TREE AND PINE AND BOX TREE
23:15 TOGETHER THAT THEY MAY SEE AND KNOW AND UNDERSTAND AND CONSIDER
23:18 TOGETHER THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD THAT THIS DONE THIS.
23:22 AND THE HOLY ONE >> OF ISRAEL HATH CREATED IT.
23:27 [ music playing ]
24:32 WHAT A DIVERSE LAND ISRAEL REALLY IS.
24:34 YOU KNOW OUR PILGRIMS ARE AMAZED
24:35 THAT IN A SHORT TIME THEY SEE
24:38 DESERT, MOUNTAINS, FOREST AND FLOWER GARDENS AND SO MANY THINGS IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE.
24:46 FROM THE GREEN GOLAN HEIGHTS TO >> THE DESERT IN THE SOUTH.
24:51 THEY HAVE SUCH A VARIETY AND THE FIVE MILLION ISRAELIES ARE
24:54 EXPERT IN MANAGING IT AS >> YOU HAVE SEEN IN THE PROGRAM.
24:58 WHILE THEY ARE TAKING IN >> IMMIGRANT FROM EVERY NATION
25:00 WHO CARE TO COME AND WHILE THEY ARE FIGHTING OFF THE ARABS.
25:03 FRANKLY I THINK THIS IS FAR FROM THE KIND OF COUNTRY DESCRIBED IN
25:08 THE MEDIA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT COUNTRIES AND REALLY IS ACCOMPLISHING A LOT.
25:13 AND YOU KNOW, GOD IS THE ONE WHO ORIGINALLY RESTORED THE LAND.
25:16 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHY DID THE ISRAELIES END UP IN EGYPT AS SLAVES?
25:20 WELL, THEY HAD TO LEAVE CANAAN.
25:24 IT WAS IN FAMINE NOTHING GREW.
25:26 THE HERDS WERE DYING AND >> THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT.
25:30 SO THEY WENT TO EGYPT AND THEN IN THE EXODUS THEY MUST HAVE
25:33 BEEN ASKED, BOTHERED MOSES ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE GET BACK THERE.
25:37 YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.
25:40 WELL, GOD RESTORED THE LAND AND THEY SENT THE SPIES AND THEY
25:42 BROUGHT THE BUNCH OF GRAPES.
25:43 YOU REMEMBER TWO MEN CARRYING THE HEAVY BUNCH OF GRAPES,
25:46 AND THE STORIES IN THE SCRIPTURES.
25:47 AND GOD HAD CHANGED THE LAND BACK AND FOR THAT,
25:51 HE WANTED A FESTIVAL EVERY YEAR CALLED FIRST FRUITS IN WHICH WE
25:54 WAVE THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE THINGS THAT GREW.
25:56 OUT OF A DEAD LAND, CROPS WOULD NOW COME.
26:00 AND SO EVERY YEAR >> THERE WAS THIS FESTIVAL.
26:02 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, THE BIBLE COMPARES IT TO THE RESURRECTION OF ALL OF US.
26:07 THAT IS IN I CORINTHIANS >>IT SAYS, "IN ADAM ALL DIE BUT IN CHRIST ALL ARE MADE ALIVE AGAIN.
26:14 "YET EACH IN HIS OWN ORDER CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS
26:16 "AND THEN WE WHICH ARE HIS WHEN HE COMES."
26:20 SO HE'S THE FIRST FRUITS AND WE ARE THE SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH
26:22 OUT INTO THE MILLIONS AND YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAVE A NUMBER IN THIS RESURRECTION.
26:26 WE TEACH THIS AT PASSOVER.
26:28 WATCH THE PASSOVER PROGRAMS FOR THE COMPLETE TEACHING OF THIS.
26:32 BUT KNOW THAT DEAD LAND WITH CROPS RISING OUT OF IT,
26:36 IS THE SAME THING AS GRAVES WITH PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THEM IN THE RESURRECTION.
26:42 THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
26:43 SO WITH THIS PROGRAM ABOUT FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES,
26:46 IT IS REALLY A VERY IMPORTANT >> CHRISTIAN POINT TO MAKE.
26:50 WELL, WE'RE GOING
26:51 TO OFFER MAPS THIS TIME.
26:53 A MAP OF JERUSALEM WHICH IS
26:55 SO MUCH FUN TO USE.
26:56 ALL OF THE STREET NAMES AND
26:57 PICTURES OF CHURCHES AND THE
26:59 IMPORTANT SITES YOU READ ABOUT
27:01 IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND SO ON.
27:03 IT IS REALLY FUN
27:05 TO LOOK AT THE MAP.
27:06 AND A MAP OF ALL OF ISRAEL,
27:07 THE TWO MAPS AND YOU WILL HAVE
27:09 A MINI TOUR IN THAT MANNER.
27:11 STUDY THOSE OVER AND YOU WILL
27:13 KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE HOLY LAND.
27:14 AND REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS,
27:16 FOLKS, THAT'S HOW WE
27:17 ARE ABLE TO GO OVER THERE
27:19 AND MAKE THESE PROGRAMS.
27:20 THIS IS NOT A STORE.
27:21 WE NEED YOUR HELP LIKE
27:23 ANY MINISTRY DOES.
27:25 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
27:26 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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Episode 11 of 12 in series

Production Code: 711

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:33

Year: 2000

Series code: VTI

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Host: Zola Levitt, Ken Berg

Guests: Ezra Ravins, Dan Meiri

Air dates: 2000-Jul-02, 2005-Apr-24

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