Dates from time of Maccabees & Jesus are revived, bring Jewish, Arab unity
Grown at the Arava Institute with its Palestinian, Israeli and Jordanian student body, the 'Methuselah' and 'Hannah' dates show the potential for renewal, like Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones.
‘A HONEY or caramel aftertaste.’ Researchers Dr. Elaine Soloway of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (left), along with Dr. Sarah Salon of Hadassah Medical Center, moments after picking the dates.(photo credit: MARCOS SCHONHOLZ)ByMICHAEL M. COHEN
