Both Yaalon and Gantz have come out this week in support of Israel’s conduct both during and after Operation Protective Edge.Israel has decided that
1.) the Palestinians will only get the autonomy they have now even under negotiations for a two-state solution.
2.) Israel will facilitate greater mobility and economic progress for both Gaza and Judea and Samaria and
3.) Israel will support the Free Syrian Army in the Golan on condition that they keep the extremists out.
4.) Maintain the defacto freeze of construction east of greenline. This may be breached next year to prevent the government from falling.Ted Belman
Ask Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon about the external challenges that Israel confronts and his reply will always be reasoned and sober.
Ya’alon will try to place the severity of the threat in the proper perspective and even to play it down. If his strong pessimism is translated into a tough, hawkish stance regarding the diplomatic process with the Palestinians, when it comes to exercising military force the defense minister is a very cautious man.
That approach was evident throughout last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip and was reflected in a conversation this week with Haaretz. His implied message is that that’s how it has always been and probably will remain: Israel, according to Ya’alon, is stuck in a hostile neighborhood and must maneuver within it, exercising toughness as well as caution. There is no reason to get upset.
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After seven weeks of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, the most recent security incidents actually took place in the north – the downing of a Syrian warplane that crossed the border on the Golan Heights and the wounding of two IDF soldiers when bombs laid by Hezbollah on Har Dov exploded.
Ya’alon admits that “it’s possible that Hezbollah has accumulated more self-confidence than we thought.” He says the organization is trying to maintain a new balance of deterrence on both the Lebanese and the Syrian borders, by reacting with attacks against Israeli territory for every military move that it attributes to Israel in Lebanon.
“There is a reversal here,” Ya’alon says. “Once, the Syrian regime used to activate Hezbollah to strike at us in south Lebanon, without our being able to blame the regime for direct responsibility. Now, Hezbollah is operating the same way on the Golan Heights.” Israel attributes several of the incidents of the past year in the Golan – involving bombs and rockets – to the militias connected to the Bashar Assad regime in Syria but operating under the inspiration of Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Ya’alon confirms that Hezbollah’s most recent attack was ambitious, but he rejects the possibility that Israeli intelligence is playing down the intentions of the organization, which seems to have been prepared to risk an escalation had it succeeded in its plan to kill a large number of soldiers by detonating the bombs.
He says that Hezbollah is sending its fighters to Iraq and Syria against its will, under orders from Iran. The Shi’ite organization is also mired in an internal war against extremist Sunni factions in the Lebanese Bekaa. It has additional problems, aside from the tension with Israel. “The incidents with us don’t prove that Hezbollah is planning an escalation,” Ya’alon says. “We reacted forcefully. Let Hezbollah decide whether it’s worth its while to escalate.”
The battles in Lebanon erupted as a consequence of the civil war in the country that used to be called Syria. President Bashar Assad, says Ya’alon, now controls only 25 percent of the area of the country.
“It’s not Syria, its Alawistan [referring to Assad’s ruling Alawite sect] – the coastal cities in the north of the country and a corridor connecting them up to Damascus,” Ya’alon says. “The rebels are already doing away with his control on the border with us on the Golan. The east of the country is controlled by [Islamic State], and in the northeast the Kurds have autonomy.”
The entry into the Golan of extremist Sunni organizations identified with Al-Qaida, such as Jabhat al Nusra, worries him, but here, too, he has the impression that at present the situation is under control.
“Of course there’s instability there,” Ya’alon says. “But the area adjacent to the border is under the control of more moderate militias, such as the Free Syrian Army. It’s no secret that they benefit from the humanitarian assistance that we provide to the residents of the villages in the area: medical care in our hospitals, food for infants, equipment and blankets in the winter. That happens on condition that they don’t allow the more extremist organizations to reach the border.”
What did Hezbollah and the other organizations learn from the war in Gaza?
“First of all, that the ‘spider web’ issue is no longer valid,” Ya’alon says, referring to a speech delivered by Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in May 2000 in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, two days after the IDF withdrew from South Lebanon. Nasrallah claimed at the time that Israeli society “is weaker than a spider web.” The defense minister says that the speech summed up the 1990s, but things have changed. “Before Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 and followed by the campaigns in Gaza and finally Operation Protective Edge, there’s a different attitude and different determination.”
He isn’t happy about the fact that the battle lasted 50 days. But Ya’alon says the Arabs learned that Israel, as opposed to some of their theories, is also capable of withstanding attrition. Its spirit doesn’t break and its economy doesn’t crash. It defends itself and exacts a heavy price from its rivals.
At a conference in Cairo early this week, donor countries promised $5.5 billion to rehabilitate Gaza. Ya’alon is not convinced that the indirect contacts with Hamas will end with a more detailed cease-fire agreement. As far as Israel is considered, the principles already formulated in the limited agreement at the end of August are sufficient, in addition to the agreement it reached with the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority regarding the entry of goods and money to the Gaza Strip under tight international supervision.
In his opinion the heart of the matter is the diplomatic-security coordination with Egypt, which already enables significant limits on Hamas’s efforts to rearm. “In the past year not a single rocket has been transferred from Sinai to Gaza because Egypt has started to operate effectively,” he says. “Both we and Egypt stopped the transfers of cement to the Strip, long before the fighting, because we realized that the cement is used for digging Hamas’s tunnels.”
The new arrangements, he says, “will allow the Gazans to live. The transfer of money and the means for rehabilitation are already beginning. But a seaport, an airport – those are pipedreams. We can discuss it in Cairo, but even Hamas understands that these things are not on our agenda or that of the PA or Egypt.”
Lazy and galloping horses
But during the war in Gaza he was more concerned about the problems at home – mainly what he sees as a lack of responsibility on the part of cabinet members. “A certain minister (Bennett) received a report from the field and said that there was a brigade (Givati) that had developed a method of dealing with the tunnels, but we weren’t letting them do so,” Ya’alon says.
“I suggest that ministers take into account broader considerations such as the dialogue with the U.S. administration, the United Nations. After all, we didn’t start this operation as we did in the Second Lebanon War. We knew what we wanted to achieve. There are considerations that go beyond the fact that you have a force that is ready for action.
“There’s no shortage of threats. When you establish deterrence, you can’t attack everything just because the enemy has tactical capability. There are 100,000 Hezbollah rockets directed at us. So are we going into Lebanon now to deal with them?” (It’s possible that this last example does not do much of a service to Ya’alon; after the Second Lebanon War people came to him, as former chief of staff, with complaints about his claim that we should let the rockets rust.)
Bennett claimed that his direct connection with field commanders afforded him another point of view, as a cabinet member, of the crucial decisions and helped him to spur the defense minister and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz into action. Ya’alon rejected this explanation out of hand: “That’s unacceptable. Is it legitimate for a politician to form direct ties with army officers, and based on that try to manipulate the chief of staff in the cabinet and say that he’s a lazy horse compared to the galloping horses, the officers in the field?
“I received no request from him to visit the area during the fighting. Other ministers asked to visit the units and did so, with my permission. A politician sits there and brags that officers phone him. That’s anarchy, not democracy. I was sorry to see that the former chief of the Shin Bet security service (Yuval Diskin) supports his position. How would he feel if an MK were to speak with his coordinators and make manipulative use of what he heard from them? That’s why the prime minister and I came out against that.”
Ya’alon refuses to share the credit with Bennett for approving the operation against the tunnels. “Who’s responsible for the army’s fighting spirit? The chief of staff or some political party?” he asks.
“These are political considerations. I have been in [security] cabinets in the past 20 years, since being appointed the head of Military Intelligence. In the previous government the group of eight of which I was a member discussed issues of major importance. There were serious, sometimes stormy debates, but nothing left that forum. Even if you voted against a decision, you are responsible as a member of the forum not to come out against it in public, during wartime.”
Under the aegis of the holidays the prime minister solved the budget crises, at least temporarily, when he decided on an increase of about 14 billion shekels in the defense budget in the course of a year and a half, in the wake of the war in Gaza.
Ya’alon is still not satisfied. “I’m conducting a battle with the treasury, which thinks that we don’t need money for defense,” he says. “The prime minister promised during the discussion that the decision about the budget increase for defense does not include extra-budgetary issues, such as transferring the IDF to the Negev and the activity of the Mine Clearance Authority. That’s why I voted in favor.
“Now the treasury comes and claims: It’s all inclusive. I assume that there will be additional debates in the course of the coming year. At least they (the treasury) have stopped attacking us about pensions because they understood that it’s unacceptable. These are employees’ prerogatives. The chief of staff and I said: We agree to let you take away from high earners, and first of all from us. We also said that we would be first, but not alone. Can they carry out such a step? The High Court of Justice, the Histadrut labor federation, won’t let us.”
At the end of the summer Ya’alon promised that “after the holidays” he would deal with the appointment of the next chief of staff, who is supposed to succeed Gantz in mid-February. The date is almost here and Ya’alon says he will keep his word.
After Sukkot he will begin to consult with former defense ministers and chiefs of staff and will invite several candidates. The almost-certain candidate for the job, although Ya’alon is not willing to discuss it at all, is the present deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot.
The defense minister promised “a transparent, full process, with all the required consultations. We will carry out all the required preliminary examinations and bring the best candidate to the government around November.” or Egypt.”
“You can’t force anyone to love you or to lend you money.” -Yiddish proverb
Just saying.
“dark cutter” is a term used to describe very dark coloured beef. Every once and a while you will come across a beef whose meat is exceptionally dark. We refer to this type of beef as a “dark cutter.” I know this because I’ve been in the meat business since I was 15. I’m now sixty. I don’t know what causes this dark colour (nobody, in all these years, has ever been able to explain why to me). It also has a weird texture, dry and almost sticky sometimes.
“The only problem left to solve is the money.”
This is a problem of pandemic proportions.
“Money answers all things.” -Ecclesiastes
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
At Stanford specifically?
— The School of Earth Sciences?
Perhaps ALSO an ad in the alumni association magazine might be a possibility?
Maybe you could discuss the project in an interview with a reporter from the school newspaper?
— and place an ongoing display ad in the school newspaper as followup to the interview (to generate curiosity, over time)?
I have asked Jews and Israelis to help without any response.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Stanford is very well endowed.
If they weren’t willing to partner directly with you, might they not be able to refer you to sympathetic funding sources?
I am sure they would be but we still don’t have any funds to start. Need at least $170,000
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Did you mean fewer dark cuts [of meat] — i.e., less bruising?
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Actually I’m not David. That’s just the name of a long-time poster on this site who recently put in an appearance again, and I welcomed him back by name.
You’re barely a few miles up the road from Stanford. Have you been in touch with their “School of Earth Sciences”?
— They must have plenty of students who’d be interested in the possibilities offered by research, internships, herd riding (especially during the school year!), ranching, promotional activities, etc.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
The Rio Grande Valley is an Eden.
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
My husband’s ancestors came to Texas in 1845 from Alsace France to start a winery. Once they determined the unsuitability of the soil, they turned to cattle. which were running wild. They were” neighbors” of Big Foot Wallace and John and Mary Maverick.
Texas Longhorn cattle fit and thrive in hostile desert environments. This is an educational, cattle-crossbreeding and research project that is helping Israel, Jordan and East Africa.
1. Longhorns can eat invasive shrubs and cacti (decreasing fire hazards).
2. Longhorns have higher reproduction rates and very low loss rates.
3. Longhorns have excellent calving and mothering abilities.
4. Longhorns solve the problem of rising feed costs.
5. Longhorns protect their calves from predators.
6. Longhorns are highly resistant to diseases.
7. Longhorns will use less land and less water.
Problems in Israel Beef Cattle industry
1. Their European cattle are failing to thrive in Israel’s desert environment.
2. Poor disease resistance, genetic diseases and high losses due to predators.
3. Soaring feed costs, as they do not eat shrubs, tree leaves, or cactus.
4. Calf losses as high as 30% and low reproduction rates.
5. Poor mothering skills and birth complications.
To solve these problems we are creating a small self-sustainable herd of Texas Longhorn cattle.
We will be using 22nd century cattle handle methods called, Stockmanship and ecological grazing techniques called Strategic Grazing. Both will be taught to Israeli, East Africa and Jordanian Ranchers. See below…
Stockmanship or a Method of Creating Happy Cows or Cattle
A method of moving cattle without stress, it is a method that uses the cow or herd’s body space. Just like in people when someone gets to close to you, you move away from the pressure. Cattle do the very same thing. We use pressure and release with the cattle simple by moving into their personal space and then releasing the pressure by moving out. This causes then to yield to the pressure and move off in the direction we asked for. This can be use for any kind of herd animal. Once the pressure is released the animal feels relief and stays in the pasture section where you placed them, until you move them again. Animals demonstrate a positive and pleasurable response to this method of movement, “Stockmanship”.
This method of animal handling also improves meat quality, increasing tenderness, increasing meat quantity. It decreases disease and meat deformity and discoloring. There are fewer dark cutters therefore, 30% more kosher cattle.
Strategic Grazing
A rotating method of grazing using every part of your pasture, one section at a time allowing grass and plant life to restore itself.
Dividing your pasture into equal parts and graze your herd in each area separately before moving on to the next. Resting grazed areas for days, weeks or even months, restores plant life. This can be done with electric fencing or even better with “Stockmanship”.
Cortez brought a very few Longhorn cattle. Released them. Then in 1856 after the Civil War. Solders retruned home to Texas and found millions of Texas Longhorn cattle. They had grow up and reproduced from a very few cattle to millions al on the own. They started the American beef industry and helped build America.
The book is very good. Texas Longhorns came from the Black Sea some 5 to 15,000 years ago the went east towards China then turn back into the great Middle East deserts. Arrived in what is now Israel then went north toward Europe and south towards Africa. Cortez brought them almost to the Texas-Mexcio desert border. If you seen one of Cortez’s ship’s, you will not understand where the horses, cattle, and feed and then the people fitted onto and in those ships. They where about the size of a large livingroom.
@ Bear Klein:
They thrived in Texas Brush country without human intervention for several hundred years . Read J. Frank Dobie book ,” The Longhorns”. Goats also do well in the LLano Estacado. Mother-in-laws do best in the air-conditioned confines Neiman-Marcus in Dallas.
the only Jewish and Christian organizations that support Israel are the ZOA and the CUFI and both have said no to me, repeatly. Most Jewish and Christian organizations only support social problems. There don’t seem to know that Israel has more internal social organizations that help its own population then America does.
No, they have not. I set up the project to be self sustainable. We are ply allowed to bring embryos due to the normal loss rate in embryo transfer we need to start with 50 or 175. With 50 we are self sustainable in 7 to 8 years with 175 we are self sustainable in 5 years. BGU has told me that they do not work with large animals on Hebrew University Agriculture University does, but they don’t have a cattle expert. The only cattle expert in Israel that I know of is Chaim Dyan of AMBAL. Who I am in contact with.
@ robin@longhornproject.org
Years and Years ago BGU via Sde Boker tried to raise a breed of cattle that would feed off the natural brush. It is was a failure and they ended up raising goats. Has anyone moved any of these Long Horns into Israel to see if they can work? Has anyone done an experiment with say 10 or 20 cattle. If this works on a particular ranch then a testimonial could be written to endorse which would help. Has anyone gone to combined Jewish Christian organizations to see if the will sponsor a test run?
Ted and dweller or is it David,
Last night at shabbat dinner which I made we talk about up date the website and how it needs always to be improved. Ted I can or I think I still have the password to enter the wed site that I can send your tech. There are two problems I need to make you aware of. One: there are lot of grammar errors on the web site that needs an English major to fix. Two: any future update will have to send to your tech because I am not able to do it. When I made the web site on iWeb, it was simple but I could easily make any changes or up dates. Being dyslexic has its limitations causing me to rely on others for help. David, All the information is on the web site. I can email you some documents that explain the project making the web site simple to find your question and their answers. You can email me or call and I will answer all you questions. One question I can think off that you might ask is: Would your students and professors be able to participate. The answer is YES, there would be no limits on participation. my Email is robin@longhornproject.org and the telephone number is 650-631-9270 – home; my cell that I don’t use much is 650-339-0269. As you might think there are many problems with starting such a project. The only problem left to solve is the money. I have to bring embryos and the only place I can get them from is Darol Dickinson due to left over ag trade agreements. relating to, Blue tongue.
honeybee Said:
In those days the goats lived in the homes. When it got too crowded they thew the mother in-laws out.
honeybee Said:
No tape available but ready & willing to give personal demonstration….
honeybee Said:
In which order??????????
Be warned: If you feel somebody pinch your tush and you turn around and it looks like no one’s there, you’ll know I poured this Romulan cloaking paint all over my naked body.
yamit82 Said:
Jacob could handle his problems with spotted goats. The Israelis can’t use the same 3500 year old methods??????????
yamit82 Said:
Send video, asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yamit82 Said:
Buy Kevlar and chocolate, Soldier.
@ honeybee:
After your first comments I was debating whether to stay out of your line of fire.
@ honeybee:
I can run a marathon with technique.
yamit82 Said:
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robin@longhornproject.org Said:
It’s the cattle business. Cowboy. I call the cattle physiological disorder on a par with OCD.
@ honeybee:
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@ honeybee:
Hey Cowgirl is this you?
Frequently Asked Questions about Texas Longhorn Cattle
More information:
© David M. Hillis, Double Helix Ranch
Professor of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
@ Ted Belman:
There is no geographical difference or delineation between the Negev and the Sinai. It’s an artificial line drawn on a map.
During the years I lived and worked in the Sinai, Israeli hydrologists found deep under the sands of the Sinai an underground freshwater lake formed over the eons of time by rainfall seeping down through the sands which also acted as a filter to form a huge freshwater almost mineral free lake.
I am assuming without checking that the Negev has her own or can tap into the existing one in Sinai. Once you have a freshwater source all options are open….If you want to raise cattle what better place to raise cattle where you have the space and the water, Feed can also be grown to support the cattle using modern agricultural methods using localized water sources at nominal cost. Cattle are raised in Israel for the domestic market and not for export but raising cattle creates jobs advances know-how,including veterinary research for our researchers which is an exportable commodity. Israel has pioneered DNA identification methods of cattle to inhibit successful rustling. We can now identify tagged cattle quickly cheaply and efficiently using our developed methods.
I worked on some of those projects in a peripheral way.
I’m not giving an opinion as to which cattle are most suitable for our climate. I do know that our cattle breeders must have explored many options and have chosen what they must believe is best for them. Israel has till now very limited space to raise large numbers of cattle and have resorted to feed lots instead of open range and I oppose that method as cruelty to animals. They pump so much antibiotics into the cattle who knows the residual effects on the consumers over time?
This branch like all others should be a national project so sufficient funds planing and other resources made available in an inter-ministerial way to assure success. In Israel nothing else can work.
I for one withhold any endorsement or support until I can find out all of the facts pro and con. This project may have merit but on a scale of 1-10 listing all of Israel’s most urgent problems and needs I don’t see this one even registering on the scale.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
I recall first reading your posts on this blogsite a couple years ago. I like the general idea, and would welcome more information about the project whenever you care to provide it, Robin.
I’ve been meaning to ask you what Israel’s academic research institutions think about the concept.
Does GOI have a problem with the haShomer haChadash people arming themselves?
Israel cattle has made many serious errors and have cost them hugh amount of money they are very afraid to move forward and very suspicious. Many of them don’t know anything about cattle raising. Part of the project aim is to teach them and help all of them. call me about the changes you would like to make on the web site my Isreal line is 03-722-6108
I not sure I understood everything you said. I was told by my Israeli CPA that the best format for a company in Israel is a 501 c3
Many of the ranchers are in debt. It setup to help the farmers make a profit. I have
Chaim Dyan of AMBAL (Israel cattle breeders Association) and two ranches that I am in contact with. They support the project the others want to see if it really works which is normal for farmers. If we are not able to start the money must go to another non-profit and if we make a profit that to may have to do to either a trust or to another non-profit. That is the law. That changes do you think are needed. I did the first web site on my own. Then a professional volunteered to do the one I have now. The only problem I have with it is I can not make any changes. I have to go back to him to do it.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:If you tell me what you ne3ed to get done to upgrade your site, I will use my techie in whom I have full confidence and will pay his charges.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:Yamit raises some valid points.
I think you have to be candid about monies raised before the total sum required is secured. Are these money’s spent by you or held in trust until the total is reached. And in the event if the project is abandoned, will the money be returned.
2. Why didn’t Israeli farmers back the project if not with money then with a major endorsement.
When I read your material saw this project as charity rather than an investment aimed at big profits. If I am right in this, it should be part of the pitch.
going shopping, finish transferring the donor names from excel to word sent it to the website volunteer. did my excerise, took my med, fixed the tomato sauce. like to see any of you run a nonprofit all by yourselves
He lives in the village of Srigimin the Elah Valley in central Israel. He is listed in the Telephone directory which you can access on line. He is listed on your board so you must have contact. He also writes for the TOI and is an English broadcaster and IBA news….
You still have not answered a single question. Try again.
that is because the web site was redone by a volunteer and I noticed it as well a short time ago. I can not change the website I have to ask my volunteer. I am afraid it might be a big job. but I just sent him an email and maybe there is a format that I can send the names to him that will make it easy to post Thank you Yamit for encouraging me. Yes I know Arieh. I was in contact with him in the beginning but when he took a new job it got very hard to contact him. He was and is one of the board members for the project. If you have some new info where I could contact him that would help.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
You left no checkable info on your own bio.
You named people on your board most I am not familiar with except Arieh O’Sullivan. Should I contact him?
You listed no donors and contributors
You were not specific as to how much money you raised and how it was used.
You did not after repeated requests supply me with the reasons you encountered by either the Israeli ministry of agriculture and stockmen themselves for opposing your project. You did not explain your operating out of California and not from Israel.
I will happily apologize once you have satisfactorily answered my questions which are quite specific.
Till then… Yamit82.
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
Keep your eyes on your wallet and your hands in your pockets !!!!!!!!!! Darlin
Cattle prices are “out of sight”.
Yamit82, You jump to conclusions without checking your facts. You must do that with that with everything in your life. Thank you Honeybee. I will check with them again.
@ honeybee:
Read the note you sent. Buena suerte mi amor
@ honeybee:
My wife’s cousin trained horses and after she got married they moved to Arizona bought a little spread and raised and trained horses. Saw her a a family function two months ago she just got divorced and moved back to Israel….I didn’t ask more than that.
@ honeybee:
On my wifes Kibbutz they raised some cattle. I rode with the cowboys many times but didn’t work the cattle. There is nothing glamorous in Cowboying It’s a tough not very rewarding job. I now what saddle sore means too.
@ yamit82:
Robin should speak with the Longhorn Producers Association. A word of warning though, I attended one of their functions and they are a hard drinking hard partying bunch of ” Good Ol’Boys”.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Robin Are scamming us???
I asked you several times to explain why Israeli cattlemen oppose your project. All we have is your word. No credible references and an appeal for donations to something that smells to me as highly suspicious..
That you have never responded to my questions is also worthy to my mind of warning especially from one who is soliciting donations openly on this Blog….
I suggest that all who read his requests for donation use
a great deal of caveat emptor (buyer beware)
Unitl the solicitor above and the organization he purports to represent is shown to be legit.
Now I am curious what would someone seeking to promote Texas Longhorns to Israel be doing and operating from Redwood City Ca.?
@ Ted Belman: Thank you for your help and Courage
@ robin@longhornproject.org:As you are aware, I have allowed you to advertise this project in the comments because I think it a worthy project. It is my way of helping you.
Shalom, I was just told that I cannot advertise the Israel Longhorn Project because it is to political. So, I really need your help with this, please share it.
Help Bring Texas Longhorns to Israel. Israeli cattle ranches and their passive European cattle are under attack by jackals, wolves and Arabs/Bedouin. And they are stealing our ancestral pasture and grazing land.
These cattle do not fit Israel’s hostile desert environment.
The Israel Longhorn Project can solve these problems.
Texas Longhorn cattle have a smaller carbon footprint; they use less water, less land and are adaptable to Israel’s very hostile desert environment. Texas Longhorn can defend themselves and their calves by simply threatening with their sharp horns.
We are working with; The Israeli Border Police, the New Shomrim, Israel’s Agriculture Department, the Prime Minister’s office, Chaim Dyan of AMBAL, (Israel Cattle Breeders Association), and many Israeli ranchers.
Help us reach our goal of $275,000 to start the project. A nominal donation of $250 from 1100 generous supporters will get us started.
The problem: http://youtu.be/hMF12Ru–yw
Texas Longhorn cattle will allow our ranchers to use less land, feed and water while at the same time producing the same amount of beef.
Robin Rosenblatt M.Sc. Hebrew University, School of Agriculture
The Longhorn Project
22 Yarnall Place
Redwood City, CA 94063
Tel: 650.631.9270 / 03.722.6108
robin@longhornproject.org
http://longhornproject.org
Nonprofit 501(c) 3 #74-3177354