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A perfumelike smell, which came from the low clumps of acacia trees, or “mimosas,” as some liked to call them, scented the air of the small Jewish colony in southern Palestine. In the expanse of sky…
Contributor:
Yosef Haim Brenner
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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That summer there was a famine in the Negev. From the beginning of winter until its conclusion, not even a single drop of rain fell. The floodgates (Genesis 7:11) were closed; they…
Contributor:
Moshe Smilansky
Places:
Rehovot, Ottoman Palestine (Rehovot, Israel)
Date:
1906
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
Contributor:
Meir Shalev
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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God relented. And the whispered prayers of the toiler returned not empty, and the tears of the sower reached to heaven.
With great, with manifold mercy the windows of heaven were flung open, flung…
Contributor:
Moshe Stavi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1930
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980