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In 2013, Israel held more than 60 percent of the global medjool market share. [15] In 2024, Medjool constituted 25% of the world export market for dates. [ 13 ] Those supplied to France, the largest European importer of dates, are predominantly from Algeria and Tunisia.
The Judean date palm at Ketura, Israel, nicknamed Methuselah. The Judean date palm is a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) grown in Judea.It is not clear whether there was ever a single distinct Judean cultivar, but dates grown in the region have had distinctive reputations for thousands of years, and the date palm was anciently regarded as a symbol of the region and its fertility.
The most renowned cultivars worldwide include Deglet Noor, originally of Algeria; Zahidi and Hallawi of Iraq; Medjool of Morocco; Mazafati of Iran. [3] Most of the information in the following list is from Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization by Al-Khayri et al. (2015). [4] [5]
Bethlehem of Galilee (Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם הַגְּלִילִית, Beit Lehem HaGlilit; lit. "the Galilean Bethlehem") or Bethlehem-in-the-Galilee [2] is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Kiryat Tivon , around 10 kilometres north-west of Nazareth and 30 kilometres east of Haifa , it falls under the jurisdiction ...
[16] [19] Today, at least 12 such maps are known. [2] [5] A majority of the crusader maps are known as "round maps”, showing the city as a perfect circle, considered to symbolize the “ideal city”. [20] These maps have unique features, but they are all related; it is likely that there was an original prototype from which these maps were ...
Madden, Andrew M., "A New Form of Evidence to Date the Madaba Map Mosaic," Liber Annuus 62 (2012), 495-513. Hepper, Nigel; Taylor, Joan, "Date Palms and Opobalsam in the Madaba Mosaic Map," Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 136,1 (April 2004), 35-44. Herbert Donner: The Mosaic Map of Madaba. Kok Pharos Publishing House, Kampen 1992, ISBN 90-390 ...
Originally, the term "Upper Galilee" referred to a larger region, encompassing the mountainous regions of what is today northern Israel and southern Lebanon.The boundaries of this region were the Litani River in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Lower Galilee in the south (from which it is separated by the Beit HaKerem Valley), and the upper Jordan River and the Hula Valley in ...
The museum opened to the public on 12 April 2017 and is the first of its kind in Palestine. [8] Its collection began to be established in 2014 by Mazin Qumsiyeh, [9] who many years previously had recognised the need for an archive of Palestinian biodiversity and research programmes to understand its significance.