4 THE JEWISH ADVOCATE, MAY 27 - JUNE 2, 2005

OPEN EVENINGS WEDS. & THURS. TIL 8PM DESPITE DISENGAGEMENT, GUSH KATIF’S

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One of those, Chasalat, whose gy, Tucker monitors computer- monides and the traditions of factory is in Kfar Darom, dis- ized watering and cooling sys- folk medicine. tributes 90 million bags a year tems, hangs netting to keep in- As visitors traipse through throughout Israel, according to sects out, and uses plastic his home, admiring the metal the region’s head tour guide sheets attached to a temperature vat and spigot pressure cooker Naor Zilberman. The communi- sensor to keep in the ideal that he uses to make the ex- ty of Katif also owns 700 cows, amount of heat. Tucker ex- tracts, Berrebi pulls people which produce milk for the Is- plained the success of Gush aside to spray refreshing gerani- raeli dairy company Tnuva. Katif’s farmers: “If you have a um extract in their eyes, hand Lax, a tall, thin sabra who good Jewish head, are a good them a glassful of mint water, speaks angrily about govern- farmer and businessman, and or spray sweet-smelling euca- ment policy, has lived in the have a blessing from Hashem, lyptus into their mouths. He community of Ganei Tal for 23 you can do anything.” sells deodorant, headache medi- years. He began growing organ- Tucker recalls when two cine, and all types of herbal years ago Scandinavia boy- drugs. cotted the region, forcing farm- He shrugs off the question of “If you have a ers to label their products with disengagement as a non-issue, stickers identifying their origin. before turning back to explain good Jewish head, After two weeks, sales in the the uses of geranium and etrog. are a good farmer country doubled and the gov- “We’re patient. We’re not and businessman, ernment made them remove the scared of leaving.” stickers. “Their stomachs spoke Editorial comment, page 22 “Providing Quality Home Care since and have a first,” Tucker said. 1986 - Wherever you may be” Tucker claimed that most blessing from On Call 24/7 to Provide area farmers already signed ex- Fact file The BEST Customer Service! Hashem, you can port contracts for next year, and do anything.” expect to plant as usual. “Every • Gush Katif exports are es- Home Health Aides (Hourly/Live-in) • Homemakers • Companions year for 29 years, someone has timated at $60 million a year. Escorts • Nursing Assessments • Med. Box Pre-Fills Anita Tucker, resident said maybe there shouldn’t be • Of Israeli produce intend- Bonded & Insured of Gush Katif Jews here. Every year, I tell re- ed for export, Gush Katif pro- Services Include Individualized Service Plan & On-going Supervision porters, next year you’ll come duces: (617) 614-0505 or 1-800-318-0220 back and ask again the same 450 Lexington St., Suite 2C, Auburndale, MA 02466 question, and I’ll give you the 90 percent of the coun- ic cherry tomatoes in 1982 and same answer and another cup of try’s cherry tomatoes now produces 420 tons per year, coffee.” 80 percent of lettuce employing 30 Arab workers. Some agriculturalists have Spring Storage 70 percent of organic veg- Although the Kassam hit his gone beyond traditional farm- hothouse only 400 meters from ing. Avraham Berrebi, who im- etables Headquarters where his workers were fixing migrated 24 years ago from 60 percent of geraniums the roof, he has never consid- France, lives in the community It’s time to put away those winter blankets and sweaters... ered relocating. of Gadid and uses local insect- From Gush Katif tour guide We have a complete line of storage items for your home. Lax said, “It’s a problem in free plants to make medicinal Naor Zilberman and the Gaza all of Israel. Buses blow up in extracts, produced according to Regional Council Right across from The Butcherie. Jerusalem. Do we have to leave the medical writings of Mai- Jerusalem? We need to do the opposite – to fight terror, not to run from it.” Another long-term resident and farmer is Anita Tucker. Tucker moved to Israel from New York in 1969, and in 1977 Open 7 Days 10-6 - 434 Harvard St. - 617-278-6333 she became one of the founding members of the community of SWIMWEAR YEAR ROUND Netzer Hazani. She wanted her SEPARATES PLUS SIZES LONG TORSO RESORTWEAR children to live in a rural envi- ronment, and all that existed then in Netzer Hazani were “bald, empty sand dunes.” She was nervous, but she said, “My four, three, and two-year-old children slid down the sand New England’s Largest Swimwear Retailer dunes, saw the sea and didn’t • Style want to leave.” • Selection The Ministry of Agriculture • Personalized Service assured her that nothing would grow in the sand. But Tucker 50 Winchester St., Newton, MA was not dissuaded. Today, she 617.630.9692 grows 30,000 heads of celery across 2 acres of hothouses. 7 Meriam St., Lexington, MA This Pesach, she sold 1,500 781.863.2834 boxes of celery with 20 heads Rte. 101A Pennichuck Sq., per box. Merrimack, NH Tucker, a grandmotherly 603.595.2776 woman, wears a sculley cap to shade her eyes from the sun and www.beachfrontswimwear.com picks crisp celery from the ground to offer her visitors. “This place has turned into a Subscribe to The Jewish Advocate. paradise of vegetables,” she Tour guide Naor Zilberman visits the cows of Katif said. Using the latest technolo- Call today. 617-367-9100 ext. 120