New director for Southern Arava R&D – Oren Bar Lavan
This month, Oren Bar-Lavan took up the position of Southern Arava R&D director, Oren, 52, member of Moshav Ein Yahav, second generation of farmers in
Harvesting willow trees and preparing them for a silage experiment with goats at the Afaim Farm in Moshav Iddan
Huge thanks to Bookie and his crew for all their help! We are hoping for great results, as always… This is an experiment that is
September – an extremely hot month
According to the data from Yotvata meteorological station, September was indeed an extremely hot month: The average temperature was 4.4 degrees, above the perennial average
SHANA TOVA!
Dear Friends, On the eve of this New Year (תשפ”א) we sincerely wish for all: May the present year and its troubles soon pass, May
The “Researcher of the Year” award for 2019, on behalf of the Volcanic Institute, is awarded to Dr. Alon Ben Gal
We congratulate Dr. Alon Ben Gal, researcher at the Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, at the Gilat Research Center And the Scientific Director
Temperature record at a meteorological station – Yotvata!
On 04.09.2020, at 14:50, a temperature of 47.70°C was recorded, at Yotvata station. This is a new record for the area as the previous record,
Date Harvest Tour, 01.09.20
As every year, a tour of the date harvest (gadid) in the south Arava, organized by Amnon Greenberg, chairman of the Date Board and a
Visit of the KKL Director of Land & Development, Yaron Ohayon, 18.08.20
On 18.08.20, we were happy to host the KKL Director of Land & Development, Yaron Ohayon, in the Southern Arava R&D. Yaron was accompanied by