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About Noga Hareuveni
- Noga Hareuveni (1924–2007) was an Israeli botanist and scholar of Judaic studies.In 1994 Noga Hareuveni won the Israel Prize for his leading role in the creation of a Biblical garden and nature preserve, named Neot Kedumim. After earning a master's degree in botany and Judaic studies, he developed a field survival course for training the Hagana and Palmach, Israel's pre-state military organizations.
- After 1948, he taught the same program to the Israel Defense Forces. Noga Hareuveni's parents, Ephraim and Hannah Hareuveni, were botanists who emigrated from Russia to British Palestine in 1912.
- They collected and classified plants that were mentioned in the Holy Scriptures of Judaism.
- On the Mount Scopus campus of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, they maintained the Museum of Biblical and Talmudic Botany, until it was destroyed in the 1948 war.
- In the 1960s their son Noga realized their dream of establishing a botanical reserve of biblical plants, which is today called Neot Kedumim.
- On 253 hectares, the staff of the botanical reserve now cultivates tens of thousands of trees and other plants.
- Great Lebanon cedars are the most impressive of the trees. "These great trees of course are not native to Israel," Dr.
- Hareuveni says, "but they're referred to many times in the Bible, usually as a symbol of haughtiness, or again when Solomon had cedar timbers shipped from Lebanon for the construction of the Temple.
- In 1936 I accompanied my parents to Beirut, where they received permission from the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture to purchase some seeds.
- I was the one who shinnied up a cedar and collected the cones.
- These my parents took back to Jerusalem and planted on Mount Scopus.
- Jerusalem is less than 3,000 feet above sea level, and most experts said that was too low for cedars to grow.
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- But not only did the cedars grow," Nogah Hareuveni continues, "they somehow even survived the neglect of 19 years while Mount Scopus was a no man's land in divided Jerusalem.
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