Aww stop whining and discrediting Israel's great acheivements
Hasbara has done a good job on you roodboy!
How about you stop your bullshitting about what Israel DIDN'T do!
Drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes "Israels great achievements"?
Has to be the funniest joke I have heard in a very long time!
Talk about misinformation and "fake news"!
Ah wait, you love all that "fake news" BS don't you... Your beloved leader is full of it!
Yes computerized drip irrigation is an Israeli technology now being implemented in Africa and India.
And cherry tomatoes are too an Israeli development. There're a lot of species, no one is saying Israel invented the small tomato, they've developed their own kind of tomato with its unique properties.
Sassshhh! Don't bring up the truth and facts, our resident PaliNazi internet jihadist has a strong allergy to them.
You are such a dumbass... You speak of truth then try and tell every one that Israel invented drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes
Why do you insist on showing your ignorance and stupidity?
Simcha Blass - Wikipedia
Simcha Blass
Biography
Simcha Blass was born in
Warsaw,
Poland, which was then part of the
Russian Empire, to an
Orthodox Jewish family. He was active in the Jewish self-defense units organized in Warsaw to defend Jews during the end of
World War I. His
engineering studies in Warsaw were interrupted by the
Polish-Soviet War and completed after that war. During the war, he was recruited to the
Polish Army, there he
invented for the
Polish Air Force, a
meteorological appliance, measuring the intensity and direction of winds.
Later, he invented, patented and developed an operative wheat planting machine, which was tested in Europe (and even sold there) and in Palestine (1927), but proved uneconomical. The main
motivation for this
invention was
Zionism (i.e. enabling more Jews settle in Palestine). Zionism was the main drive for most of his other activities in adult life.
Water engineering in the Yishuv and State of Israel
During the years 1930–1948 he was the most known water engineer in the Jewish
Yishuv of
Palestine. He planned the first modern
aqueduct in the
Jordanvalley. He was the chief engineer and one of the founders (with
Levi Eshkol and
Pinchas Sapir) of
Mekorot water company (established 1937, now Israel's national water company).
checking the sabotaged water pipeline to the
Negev isolated settlements,1948
Later, in 1946, he planned the first water
pipeline to the
Negev. The pipes for which had been used in
London during
The Blitz for extinguishing fire and bought by Blass after
World War II. This pipeline enabled the establishment of
11 new Jewish settlements in the Negev(which was under the
British Mandate of Palestine) on a single evening (
Yom Kippur night) in 1946 (but also served
Arab Bedouins). The Jewish settlements in the Negev had a major role influencing the
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (
UNSCOP) to include most of the Negev within the boundaries of the recommended Jewish state.
In 1948 to 1956 Blass was the founder and director of the governmental water institutions of the new state of
Israel, the official councillor of the
governmenton water affairs and head of planners of the Israeli
National Water Carrier.
Blass wrote the chapter "Development of Water Resources in Palestine" in
Encyclopaedia Hebraica.
Drip irrigation
In the early 1930s, a farmer drew his attention to a big tree, growing in his backyard "without water". After digging below the apparently dry surface, Simcha Blass discovered why: water from a leaking coupling was causing a small wet area on the surface, while an expanding onion shaped area of underground water was reaching the roots of this particular tree—and not the others. This sight of tiny drops penetrating the soil causing the growth of a giant tree provided the catalyst for Blass's invention. The drip irrigation concept was born and experiments that followed led Blass to create an irrigation device that used friction and water pressure loss to leak drops of water at regular intervals. Recognizing the high potential of his discovery, he began to look for ways to turn his idea into a product.
In the late 1950s, with the advent of modern
plastics during and after World War II, he took a major step towards implementing his idea. After leaving government service in 1956 he reopened his private Engineering office and worked with his son Yeshayahu on the
drip irrigation idea. The main aspect of the new invention was to release water through larger and longer passageways (rather than tiny holes) by using
friction to slow water inside a plastic emitter. Larger passageways prevented the blocking of tiny holes by very small particles. The first experimental system of this type was established in 1959. In the early 1960s, Blass developed and
patented this method and the new dripper was the first practical surface drip irrigation emitter.
During the years 1960 to 1965 Blass developed the drip-irrigation systems and sold them inside Israel and abroad. In 1965 he contacted Arie Bahir who was in charge of the industry in the kibbutzim in order to find a
kibbutz to give him the task of further developing this new enterprise. Out of some suggestions, Blass chose kibbutz Hazerim in the
Negev.
Online dripper system
For the desert-based
Kibbutz Hatzerim looking to expand its activities beyond agriculture, Simcha Blass's invention opened up a world of possibilities. Blass and his son Yeshayahu and Kibbutz Hatzerim signed a contract (on August 10, 1965) establishing
Netafim Irrigation Company (80% Kibbutz Hatzerim and 20% Blass). Production began in 1966. With Blass's original narrow spaghetti tube model and later models as the starting point,
Netafim engineers working with Blass, developed the online dripper—indeed allowing the desert to bloom.
