Water in my pre-desert Life (1) Water in the Wilderness (2)    Experiences on the NEGEV HEIGHTS 1990-96 Water in the Wilderness (3)      Along the Syrian-African Rift: RED SEA - SINAI 1966 Water in the Wilderness (4)     Along the Syrian-African Rift: RED SEA - EILAT/AQABA 1996-98 Water in the Wilderness(5)     Along the Syrian-African Rift: SALT SEA - WADI DRAGOT1998/9 Water in the Wilderness(6)      Along the Syrian-African Rift: SALT SEA - EIN-GEDI 1999 My Salt Sea Springs since 1999 (7)

"you shall draw water with joy from the springs of freedom" "Schoepfen sollt ihr Wasser mit Wonne aus den Quellen der Freiheit" (Isaiah 12,3) The translucent thread through the labyrinth of my experiences, is WATER, Mayim in Hebrew, Water which symbolizes God's WILL, i.e. Emotions - Feelings - Desires. Flowing with the Water suits my desire to "follow Will's and Body's lead".

THE 1995 PROPOSAL "WATER IN THE DESERT"

AS A LIVING GRAVESTONE FOR THE MURDERED PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN

2002_08_19 ; last update; 2003_03_11

On the evening of the murder , 1995_11_05, I was a visitor of David's at a military base near Egypt.
Some days before, the two of us, Gadi Lybrok and someone from our Board of Directors,
had met with Shim'on Peres' personal advisor Elkhanan (?).
Elkhanan was not content with the material we presented and asked for a specific document.
While David and I were working on this document, a soldier ran in: "Rabin was shot!"

When the TV outlined Rabins' biographie, I was struck by one fact:
He never wanted to become a commander in the army.
He wanted to become a water engineer.
During the funeral, 2 days later, I was sitting in my private David Succah,
attending the funeral through my walkman radio,
and writing and creating this proposal.
When I was ready, I drove the 7 km to my computer in the Succah office-flat
We worked all night - exchanging faxes - Immanuel in Tel-Aviv and I in Mitzpe-Ramon,
and the next morning a big poster was lying on the desk of Shim'on Peres, the temporary new Prime-Minister.

It was not the first time, I had tried to win over Peres, the pupil of Israel's first Prime Minister,
who had said, that Israel's destiny will be decided in the Negev.
Peres knew me and appreciated me since our meeting about the Bir'am project in 1976.

Since the scanned document is unreadable here,
I'll add a presentation without the poster layout and graphics.
The four original photos burnt in the 1998 Succah fire.
The biblical texts which were inserted in the photos, are enriched by a tune here.
See "Water in the Wilderness".

"They shall be joyous, the desert and the parched land and the wilderness shall exult and blossom as the lily. "For in the desert shall waters break out, and streams in the wilderness. And Dry-Wind shall become a lake, and Thirst - springs of water."     "Behold, I am making newness, [the adjective "new" in feminine form] now she will grow, don't you know her?" "I will even make a way in the desert, and rivers in the wilderness. for I give waters in the desert and rivers in the wilderness"

Prof. Picard surmised that deeper and richer aquifers existed at greater depth. He proposed to intercept them near the foothills of the mountains of Samaria and Judea, since he believed that these were the places where such aquifers should be accessible… For Simcha Blass… the supply of water was the essence of Zionism. He often ignored well established technical principles in order to create what he termed "A Zionist pipeline" (Rafael Rosenzweig: "The Economic Consequences of Zionism" 1989, p. 101-103)

The document closed with my favorite sentence from the Little Prince

What makes the Desert so beautiful,
is, that somewhere it hides a well...