Thursday .-December-^ 7,1987 — THE BULLETIN — 11
Tour of duty ends
BRUSSELS — Yossef Hadass, Israers ambassador to Belgium, Luxemburg and the European Economic Community, ended a four-year tour of duty and returned to Jerusalem.
Hadass, 59, will take over the post of deputy director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry for Africa, Asia and the Pacific region. He will replace Avi Priraor, who, in turn, succeeds him as ambassador to Belgium.
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Scandinavians, young and old, fill up the planes that bring them straight from their cold climes to the warm water and hot weather in Eilat and the mineral-water baths at the Dead Sea. Israelis pack the Eilat area during the school holiday season (July and August) and during Jewish holidays such as Passover and Succot. But they also enjoy bathing and water skiing at the Sea of Galilee and the winter skiing on Mount Hermon.
Tiny Israel has a variety of climates comparable to the variety enpyed by much larger countries such as the U.S. or Australia, that cover entire continents. Crossing from Tel Aviv via Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, a traveller passes through five different climatic zones in a distance of about 100 kilometres. Eilat has a tropical climate •■' ideal for swimming and sun-J _ bathing all year round, whilst -Mount Hermon has snow jn winter and attracts skiers -' from all parts of the country. The Sea of Galilee is very warm for most of the year, bringing swimmers and water-skiing enthusiasts to its fresh waters. The Dead Sea's dry heat and medicinal waters are an excellent cure for psoriasis, a skin disease, whilst the southern town of Arad is a climatic haven for asthma sufferers. Dwellers in the coastal plain love to^ome to Jerusalem, adjacent to the dry Judean Desert for its atmosphere, which is bracing in summer, brisk in winter, but rarely humid or muggy. Many Jerusalemites, on the other hand, love to spend their holidays in the heat of the Dead Sea.
Such a kaleidoscopic mixture of climates in one small country and the almost complete absence of smog, explain why. Israel is able to produce such a large variety of vegeta-
ble and fruit crops. Some of these, such" as' tomatoes, are now produced all year round, at different times in different parts of the country. The varied climates enable crop'plant-ings to be staggered in different regions so that their ripening season is extended.
tant that sufficient rain should fall in a short time. There can be strong winds, but there are no hurricanes or typhoons, though rare incursions of air f rom Siberia and M id die Asia are bitingly cold. Some snow falls most years in Safed, Jerusalem and the peaks of the
The Jewish Quiz
QUESTIONS:
(1) What are the initial words of the hymn sung in the synagogue and in the home after kindling theGhanuka Itghts? _
(2) What answer other than the accepted one is given to the question "Who knows eight" in the song Ehad Mi Yodea sung during the Passover Seder?
(3) What scroll gives a popular account of the wars of the Hasmoneans and the origins of the festival of Chanuka?
ANSWERS:
(1) Ma'oz Tzur ("Rock of Ages").
(2) Eight are the Chanuka lights.
(3) The Scroll of Antiochus or Scroll of the Hasmoneans.
Edmond Lipsitz
-> These questions and answers came from the book 6400 Questions About Judaism and the Jewish People by Edmond Y. Lipsitz, recently published by JESL Educational Products, Downsview. Dr. Lipsitz would be pleased to receive your comments, or to consider your own Jewish quiz questions for inclusion in future columns. Write to him,c/o The Jewish Western Bulletin.
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The heat in areas such as the Western Negev and the southern continuation of the Jordan Valley enable special early crops of peppers, eggplant and tomatoes to be grown for export to European countries to Israel's financial advantage.
Judean hills, ^ith heavy snow fall on Mount Hermon in the north. "
Israelis sometimes suffer the effects of occasional sti-flingly hot winds from the direction of the Red Sea. This phenomenon is called a sharav and is the result of air
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Flowers also ripen at times that complement those in Europe without competing, and some semi-tropical fruits, such as avocado and mango, are not grown there at all. Israel's climate makes her into aback garden for the tables of Europe. Israel's climatic structure is ^ closely connected with" its location and physical structure. Fittingly for its geographical position at the eastern extremity of the Mediterra-, nean, Israel has an extreme Mediterranean-type climate: winter is short and rainy and . the rest of the year is clear and ^ sunny, and temperatures are generally mild to semi-tropical. The coastal plain is warm and moist, while the hilly areas parallel to the coast and including Jerusalem are cooler on the average and have a drier atmospherer-The Jordan Valley, including Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, and Its continuation, the Arava down to Eilaf is hot and dry. Eilat and the Bet Shean Valley south of the Sea of Galilee have semi-troj^ical climates. The rainiest place (and one of the coldest) in Israel is Safed, which is only a short distance from Balmy Tiberias. ^
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