Another Israel/San Diego Connection
In addition to that of my daughter , San Diego, California has another Israel connection: Israel is helping desalinate San Diego's water supply . As many of us know, water is a most precious natural resource in the Middle East, and in past years there has been a fairly severe drought, in Israel and other countries in the region, due to lower rainfall. This winter with its powerful storms of a couple of weeks ago, which brought snow to the higher elevations (I heard from friends who visited me on Shabbat that approximately 6 inches fell in Efrat, where they and my son and his family live) and pounding rain to central Israel, including flooding in Tel Aviv, has gone a long way to ease that drought, and raise the level of the largest body of fresh water in Israel, the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), almost to it's high water mark. The Middle East is not the only region with severe water problems. I never expected, however, that one of those areas would be San Diego: ...