JERUSALEM: With technology coming up short, Israel´s agriculture minister sought an unconventional solution on Thursday to end the country´s water shortage - rallying a few thousand worshippers at Jerusalem´s Western Wall to pray for rain. Four years of heavy drought have overtaxed Israel´s unmatched array of desalination and wastewater treatment plants, choking its most fertile regions and catching the government off-guard, with farmers bearing the brunt. Agriculture minister Uri Ariel, an Orthodox Jew, has a hand in determining water policy and how the resource is allocated, but to balance the science with the spiritual, he teamed up with leading rabbis to organise a public prayer session. ?We significantly lowered the cost of water, we are carrying out many studies on how to save water in different crops, but prayer can certainly help,? Ariel said.
12-29-2017, 06:00 AM
Israeli minister turns to prayer to help relieve drought
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