Sometimes It Takes Only One Man
His name Daniel Hillel. A Jew born
in Los Angeles who moved to what later became Israel in 1931. The Wall Street
Journal had an interview on 10/15/2012 with this soil scientist who developed micro-irrigation techniques (better
known as drip irrigation) since the 1950s.
Thus, he contributed to turn
Israeli’s deserts into productive agricultural farms. Israel thanks to him and
others is a world leader in agricultural technologies and exporter of
agricultural goods.
Helping The Arab & Muslim People
Mr. Hillel helped numerous Arab
and Muslim countries to improve their agricultural output by using water more
efficiently like Jordan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan and
Palestine.
Such individual contributions
to peace and prosperity are more valuable than many of these foolish high level
peace talks or sophisticated diplomacy that are often more photo op for
politicians than anything else.
Indispensable Plastics
In the above interview, Mr.
Hillel made the point that it was the plastics boom in the 1960s that made
among other things low-cost weather-resistant plastics available. Without
plastics, micro-irrigation would likely not have taken off.
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