{"id":13183,"date":"2020-09-15T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44.223.10.86\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2020-09-15T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:29:08","slug":"judean-palm-dates-make-a-comeback-after-2000-years-thanks-to-hmo-doctors-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/judean-palm-dates-make-a-comeback-after-2000-years-thanks-to-hmo-doctors-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Judean Palm Dates Make a Comeback After 2000 Years, Thanks to HMO Doctor\u2019s Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a pediatric gastroenterologist and Director of the <strong>Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center<\/strong> at the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, <strong>Dr. Sarah Sallon<\/strong> has long been interested in <strong>natural remedies<\/strong>. Having read that <strong>dates<\/strong> were traditionally thought to be <strong>good for digestive problems,<\/strong> she went on a hunt for the ancient date seeds that were uncovered during a 1960s excavation of Masada, the historic Jewish fortress by the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Once in possession of some of the seeds, she turned to <strong>Elaine Solowey<\/strong>, an expert on arid agriculture. Solowey runs the <strong>Center for Sustainable Agriculture at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at Kibbutz Ketura<\/strong>, founded by Hadassah Young Judaeans in 1973. She planted the seeds in 2005 and was astounded when one of them sprouted.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to the summer of 2020, when scientists were able to harvest a crop of long-lost <strong>Judean palm dates after a 2000-year incubation period<\/strong>. As the dates were picked from the tree, Dr. Sallon excitedly exclaimed, \u201cThey are beautiful!\u201d And they tasted good, too.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/07\/world\/middleeast\/israel-judean-dates-agriculture.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pediatric gastroenterologist and Director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, Dr. Sarah Sallon has long been interested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3087,19],"tags":[5943,5940,5942,5944,5939,5941],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-than-a-hospital","category-hadassah-hospital","tag-center-for-sustainable-agriculture-at-the-arava-institute-for-environmental-studies-at-kibbutz-ketura","tag-dr-sarah-sallon","tag-elaine-solowey","tag-judean-palm-dates-after-a-2000-year-incubation-period","tag-louis-l-borick-natural-medicine-research-center","tag-natural-remedies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13185,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions\/13185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}