{"id":692,"date":"2010-09-20T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birkatchaverim.com\/wordpress\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-09-15T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T12:40:28","slug":"el-nino-israel-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birkatchaverim.com\/wordpress\/resources\/el-nino-israel-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"El Nino, Israel and water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are just about at that time of year when we add back the prayer for rain to the amidah prayer and water is always a hot topic with regard to Israel so I wanted to talk about something completely different, and perhaps useful to some Bar\/Bat Mitzvah child interested in doing a project related to water.<\/p>\n<p>In the 90&#8217;s there was a research study which indicated that El Nino may impact Israel&#8217;s rainy season. The El Nino effect where Pacific ocean water gets heated up seems to influence a heavier rainy season. The study indicated that El Nino has impacted weather for the past 30 years or so but prior to that it didn&#8217;t. There are hypothosis about why but I thought the research was interesting anyway. For more information about that see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il\/site\/en\/weizman.asp?pi=371&amp;doc_id=886\" target=\"_blank\">Link Between El Nino and Israel Discovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past year, although water levels did not rise enough to stop the water shortage problem, water levels in the Kinneret were higher than they have been in a long time and even went under the red line for a short period.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"open-flash-chart\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.savethekinneret.com\/open-flash-chart.swf?data-file=http:\/\/www.savethekinneret.com\/kinneret_en.json\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can see that from this graph, generated by <a href=\"http:\/\/savethekinneret.com\" target=\"_blank\">Savethekinneret.com<\/a>. For more related information about water in the Kinneret this year, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/lake-kinneret-rose-87-cm-in-two-months-1.262486\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> in Haaretz and <a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/03\/02\/1010880\/lake-kinneret-rises-past-low-red-line\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a> in JTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are just about at that time of year when we add back the prayer for rain to the amidah prayer and water is always a hot topic with regard to Israel so I wanted to talk about something completely different, and perhaps useful to some Bar\/Bat Mitzvah child interested in doing a project related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,103,33],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-holidays","category-resources","tag-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Nino, Israel and water &#8226; 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