How Israel Created a Water Surplus that Changed the Nation | FULL EPISODE | Insights on TBN Israel

we're just coming out of the super long drought period the serious drought has been eight years running so davido we're gonna get to walk through this crazy place yes definitely we are here to make sure that we'll have water for another one of the year millions of people are relying on this and other competent stations huge infrastructure unprecedented infrastructure are being built now if you said to anyone 20 years ago this is what's going to happen with israel they're like no way it's nothing short of a miracle i believe that israel can help a lot to solve the water problem first in the palestinian authority than in jordan or the middle east it's not a resource you can negotiate over it's not okay i guess we'll do without water this month it's non-negotiable to the point of like going to work [Music] the word water in hebrew with mine appears in the word heaven shamim you know it's it says in genesis that in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth the word heaven is a combination of two words mime and sham there is water water is mentioned over 700 times in the bible more than hope more than faith even more than praise the bible tells us that every time that the people of israel kept the commandments god blessed them how did he bless them he gave them the rain on time every time that the people of israel turn their backs to the god of israel god stops the rain on the earth we see that water and blessings always come together we know that we're saved by the sacrifice of yeshua and we know that in our salvation a part of our salvation is to be baptized in water we know that water is a sign of purification so let us together see what god has for israel the god of abraham isaac and jacob the god of israel blessed israel with water how important is this water availability for the stability of a country [Music] you can see a connection between water stability and other kinds of stability you don't think about it because it's reality for us you know we always have running water there's always clean water the civilian war in syria started because of the drought there was a lot of potential for it but it started because of the water israel is mostly an arid place the founding fathers realized that without water there's no life and there's no real possibility to develop a young country from the beginning they understood the importance of water and they acted upon it in this red area there is no agriculture you do not have water it's a real mission valuable mission that that you're doing for the people of israel it's easy to forget when you drive through israel today that all these places that you're looking at that have green and vegetation and agriculture just a couple decades ago looked like this they were barren they were empty they were completely dry bone dry as we say when i was a child growing up in israel we were constantly trained to conserve water don't take long showers don't let the hose run don't water the yard there was a huge need to conserve water because there's such a scarcity of water in this land [Music] you came in to makot in the time where israel was coming out of the drought and heading into the next drought that's right one week after i got into the office the established investigation committee regarding the water problems in israel because we didn't have enough water yeah the level of the water in the wells all over either was very low it was really really a serious situation then it was when the dissemination plant starting to be connected to the system as we call it the revolution of the water sector idol was the ceo of mekovot when israel began to seriously address its water crisis mikhail is israel's national water company it was founded in 1937 which means it existed even before israel officially became a country since then it's grown into a huge company with many branches and over 3 000 water installations throughout the country [Music] all with the purpose of supplying water to the people of israel i met with david balsau who manages mccullough's department of innovations and ventures to discuss what is arguably mccoy's biggest achievement yet turning seawater into drinking water i guess this is one of the biggest achievements of the cohort and the state of israel we decided that drinking water would come from the sea it's an endless resource of water we built five desalination plant across the mediterranean sea and one more in inelat in the red sea and this provides more than 80 percent of drinking water it's very substantial yeah so this enables us to detach ourselves from the dependence on on climate the second biggest achievement is agriculture we are reusing 90 of our waste water and turning them into high quality water for irrigation is that abnormal is this something that's common around the world uh that's that's a world record behind us is probably spain with 30 percent i asked my people in god do you have the system how to take all this huge amount of water from the sea and put them into israel in three months we plan and design the new national water system of israel and that was one of the most important things they had the vision to think ahead many years ahead and establish this spine it goes across the whole the state of israel carries water to every point in israel the relevance and importance of israel's national water carrier is huge david referred to it as a spine that goes across the whole country and that's exactly what it is it's essentially a huge water main stretching across israel from north to south while the various stops along israel's water infrastructure feed into it this includes pumping stations reservoirs and now desalination plants being part of a government effort to do good is a unique privilege everywhere we look jordan egypt syria lebanon if you go farther iraq i mean no one in the region has water in israel we are now in a water surplus so that's that's quite amazing [Music] the innovation and the creativity and the faith of those first settlers and even the governments of israel transformed the way this country looked so things that used to look like this are now full of agriculture and today just a couple generations later me my kids growing up here in the land we're just living a different life we no longer have to worry about water scarcity or water security in the land the land has truly been transformed that is nothing short of a modern day miracle in the land [Music] we're heading up north on the 6th which is the main south north route in the country to the central galilee we're about to meet a woman named bonnie and by what i understand which is not a lot uh what she does is use fish like legit like little fish to keep the water clean in israel and also to monitor the quality of water i'm quite intrigued to see how this all works this is the major center where the water is collected treated tested 24 7. this water is monitored and coddled this is the drinking water this water will become drink this is raw drinking water this water has been pumped from the sea of galilee to be distributed for drinking water for israel [Music] this is the magic fish pond this is the magic fish pond here so the magic fish these are the hard working fish they don't seem to be working very hard at all but they actually are the water is pumped in through each of these chambers the fish are all getting exposed to the water so the little what do you call them the fingerlings yes these are extremely sensitive to their environment they will react very quickly if there's a change in some kind of an irritant what would you see they start swimming quickly very quickly erratically maybe up and down they go into stress exactly they'll be extremely stressed they could be aware of something like a chemical spill an oil spill anything outside their comfort zone these fish are not wrong this is saint peter's fish that you would eat in any restaurant on the shores of the galilee correct these are tilapia the mindset of mikarot is to use as little artificial material as possible so we're looking towards the natural world what will give us the answer that we want and what would unnatural be yeah so let's see what nature does how does nature know if the environment is is not good kind of think of them as our little finney watchmen that are our first line of defense that are guarding the the drinking water for the citizens of israel [Music] the water supply in this country has always been problematic just like today the ancient jewish kings we read about in the bible were constantly innovating ways to supply water to the people and to keep the water supply protected during war time if you've ever visited the city of david archaeological dig in jerusalem then you've probably seen one of jerusalem's biggest tourist attractions hezekiah's tunnel the name hezekiah's tunnel comes from the strongest hypothesis of the tunnel's origins it seems that the tunnel was built by king hezekiah from the old testament and that he built it as a means of maintaining the water supply within jerusalem during an impending siege by the assyrians today we're not battling the assyrians but we are winning the war against israel's water crisis we discussed how the majority of our water comes from desalination plants which sit as i'm sure you could guess at sea level but if you want to bring water up to jerusalem sitting at over 2000 feet of elevation you're going to need a pump and it better be a big one jerusalem doesn't have any water since a thousand years ago till now they had to push water to jerusalem bringing water to jerusalem has been a historical problem since the early ages of history if hezekiah's tunnel you have water works going back three four five thousand years uh back here you are thousands of years later doing the same thing at just this incredible scale what is this place uh what we have here is four pumping units of ten thousand seven hundred cubic per hour so this this is what this is sort of the base station yes that's doing what it's taking all this water and like exactly pushing it up exactly we have almost 300 250 meters of pushing the water up just under a thousand feet of elevation yes when people talk about water most people will imagine a pipe maybe a little pump maybe a filter maybe a little reservoir yeah exactly these are much bigger projects like you've built a city [Music] this is by the looks of it one of the most impressive engineering projects in this country main purpose of the tunnel is to convey water from this point to jerusalem each piece is 30 meters we have almost thousand pieces like this i think it's hard to grasp how big this project is until you stand in front of it how how wide and how big these pieces are you you must imagine water up to 40 bucks pressure a very high pressure high pressure in about three meter per second amazing so we get to go into this tunnel now we're riding on your special train yes let's do it [Music] wow what a ride so this is the end of the line yes everything from here is pipe all the way into jerusalem yes amazing so this is a pipe 2.6 meter diameter this is the final product the water will run here in this up to this is the reason that we invest a lot of money that people in jerusalem will open the top and never have to think about it yes what we are doing now we are planning for the next 100 years to supply the water you've just been traveling through the country through the company you managed there's technology everywhere there's water everywhere there's pipelines being laid into every tiny community in the country in this man israel is a quiet an island an island which solved the water i believe that israel can also help a lot all the middle east if it could be managed by the politicians creative idea you know my dream is that we could supply our water to jordan to syria why not in these pipes the water will go to jerusalem and from jerusalem by this pump to amman why not why not [Music] after a very impressive journey to key points across israel's water sector i had the privilege of sitting down with the lipschitz from israel's newly established water ministry he gave me an insider's perspective on the philosophy and attitude that sets israel apart when it comes to water especially in the middle east asking maybe uh just start by telling us what exactly you do in the ministry for water resources so what we do in history uh first we're trying to prepare the water our water sector what's our economy for the future we're building more destination plans to be ready for the future droughts for the future in addition we are strengthening the relationship between israel and other countries in use by using the um what israel has has learned in the past decades we are going to use the israeli technology share it with other countries our closest and and and first neighbors and bring water to everyone if i had to ask you to tell you know from the from a bird's-eye view the story of water in this in this country in this region how would they look if you look 20 years back you've been in the government for what 15 years now exactly uh something like that yes you look 15 years back you look at where we are today how are things different now than they were back then at the beginning we were looking only a few years ahead today we are looking 20 and 30 years ahead we have a master master plan for the water for the water sector for the year 2040 and 2050. that's because we understand when it's done that we have to plan for the next few decades and the needs are growing all the time since the water is such a big issue in israel in all the middle east well we were just forced into it exactly we interesting yeah looking at everything that's happened in the country in the last decades it shows that there's been a huge amount of thought that's been given to changing the way we deal with water and maybe you just you know you've been on the inside for a long time can you share the philosophy and the thought that's gone into shaping the way we work with water in this country one of the first laws that was established that was accepted in the israeli parliament in the knesset is the law of water according to this law the water belongs to everyone that means that if you dig in your backyard and you find a whale of water we all own it we all own it you and me and all all the exactly all the people in israel and uh this is the philosophy we save water we are not allowed to waste water we want to leave the water for the future generations and we have to keep the water because it belongs to everyone most countries look at water as something that needs to be extracted that needs to be taken out of nature and you were saying that our government no longer looks at it that way it looks at it as something that we need to replenish and build into a few decades ago we used to take water from the sea of galilee then we stopped we're not taking water anymore we're taking less and less water and will have the ability to put back desalinate water back into the uf gallery we're refilling a resource exactly interesting we live in a very weird neighborhood having available water is not an obvious thing and i think it's it's very unique you know we now are building unique relationships with our neighbors where we're selling the water or providing them water and maybe you can give us a little inside information on how that uh how that's working out well currently we have these agreements with three neighbors with jordan jordan kingdom egypt and the palestinian authority according to the peace agreement of the jordan kingdom we give the jordanians every year about 50 million cubic meters from the sea of galilee straight to straight to amman we also give the palestinian sorority by the way more than were obligated according to the peace agreement and we signed a peace agreement with the united arab emirates yes i'm sure they have water needs uh they have very talented people over there we can cover cooperate and cover it with them in order to give water solutions technologies of water for our new friends it's it's interesting to mention that because we're i assume we're not going to be sending a pipe of water across the gulf of aqaba to the united arab emirates or any other arab country but the technology and the knowledge to manage the water infrastructure that we can ship across whatever ocean exactly so the knowledge doesn't have any borders i'm sure we can share our knowledge with the future friends that hopefully will sign the peace agreement with them in the coming few few months so all this neighborhood the middle east is going to be changed thank you so much for taking the time thank you it's been faster [Music] we've learned how israel's water system brings life to the farthest reaches of the country and now it's time to see this miracle in action i traveled into the desert to meet a man who's utilizing israel's vast water infrastructure to prevent some very specific ancient plants significant to both the jewish and the christian faith from being lost forever this is what we call the core of the desert very very salty very hot here no water at all this is the tough desert [Music] so guys this is your farm yeah this is my farm this is the bottom of the farm we are located at the jericho valley 10 minutes away from the dead sea we have a five minutes from the electricity and this is why it's very salty the fact that we're sitting in the middle of a completely dry scorching hot desert and you have water to water these plants that's the result of technology definitely on ancient times this plant was grown only next to world springs over here there is no world spring yeah we are bringing the water from another place [Music] i hit the road about 12 years ago with an even romantic vision to bring back the agriculture to the shores of the dead sea and to revive the industries that was once driven from it this is an ancient industry yeah this isn't 25 years ago industry this is 1500 years yeah this industry was based on a very unique plant its name was the barn of gilad this plant was grown agriculturally only here and only by the ancient hebrew farmer this plant was the source of one of the most important medication of ancient time the source of the most desirable perfume of the roman empire the plant was so important so it served as the first ingredient of the incense of the holy temple and since the second temple period is the only ingredient of the anointing all the kings and the priests i want to bring it back guy tapped into something here reviving the cultivation of plants that our forefathers used in worship first was the bomb of gilead used in the temple and a staple of ancient israel's economy after that another family of plants that we read about in the gospels caught his attention frankincense and myrrh this is the same frankincense and myrrh that we read in the story of the magi is coming to see baby jesus it's the same plant the same place definitely is in the edge of extension if we want the next generation to be familiar with the franklin sense we have to make a culture out of it otherwise it would disappear from the world this is my vision [Music] so guys these are uh your trees yeah these are guys babies these are my babies this is a mirror called the glendalosa this is indian meal called comic for hawaii this is a meal called the harvey this is the yemeni meal considered to be very high quality meal it got a very unique smell i made a few hundred prints of it because i really like its smell smell it wow yeah it's intense yeah let's make a balmo village you got different note of smell in different parts of the plant i'm going to cut it and bring your finger here smell it that's an amazing smell these plants were sacred to our ancestors and without this little farm by the dead sea we could lose this important part of our history guy is using the same water system that keeps the people of israel alive and hydrated to bring life to the desert and make sure these ancient elements of worship are accessible for at least another generation without it the modern delivery system of the water wouldn't be possible to make this agriculture and thanks to this i'm able to go my place this is it's it's amazing we've had this chance to like sort of see how this system works around the country that at the end of the line somewhere in the middle of the desert is guy erlich and his biblical plants he opens the tap and water flows out to his plants this is part of the zionist story of bringing back the past into life [Music] thank you for joining us as we provide a spiritual insight of what god is doing in israel and in the middle east if you want to learn more about what god is doing in israel make sure to visit us on our webpage and follow us on social media shalom and god bless you for jerusalem [Music]

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Length: 23min 10sec (1390 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 24 2022