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Making the Desert Bloom  shares Deeply impacted by the surrounding antisemitism and growing poverty in his native pre-war Poland, Simcha Blass decided he would travel to Eretz Yisrael to check out his future. If he eventually decided to settle there, Blass would need to earn a living. While still in Warsaw, he invented a machine which planted wheat and increased crops by a massive 300 percent. A plentiful supply of food meant Jews would no longer be dependent on British or Arab favors. He set off thrilled at the adventure, but alas, in the unfamiliar surroundings of Eretz Yisrael, the intel...

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