Submitted by: Debbie Beatty
ISRAEL
The Middle
East has been growing date palms for centuries. The
average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of
dates a year.
Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough
to be harvested from the ground or a short ladder .
Israel the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the
world's population, can lay claim to the following: The cell phone was developed
in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
