“If Jehovah is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.”(Numbers 14:8)
“A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of honey”. (Deuteronomy 8:8)
Honey is the seventh item of the seven sacred species in Israel. It can be referred to as date honey or bee honey, but mainly as date honey. Dates are a good source of various vitamins and minerals, energy, sugar, and fiber. Israeli farmers have grown the best-quality dates in the world. From the north to the south of Israel, from the Jordan Valley to the Dead Sea desert area, you can see many large fields growing date palm trees.
The hotter and dryer the place, the better the date palms grow. However, the date palms need a lot of water every day. Israel uses drip-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface. The goal is to place water directly into the root zone and minimize evaporation.
『耶和華若喜悅我們，就必領我們進入那地，把那地賜給我們；那地乃是流奶與蜜之地。』(民數記 14:8)
『那地有小麥、大麥、葡萄樹、無花果樹、石榴樹；那地有出油的橄欖樹，有蜜。』(申命記8:8)
蜜 (honey)是以色列美地七種神聖作物的第七項，可指棗蜜或蜂蜜，但主要強調椰棗蜜。以色列從北到南，從約旦河山谷到死海沙漠區，都可看到綠油油的大片椰棗園。在極為乾燥寸草不生之地，以色列人卻種出全球品質最好的椰棗，最有名的就是被視爲最甜最大的帝王椰棗，出口比例也最高。
越是炎熱、乾燥的地方，椰棗生長得越好。但是椰棗每天需要吸收大量水分，以色列使用滴灌技術將水分輸送到每棵果樹，結合肥料直接點滴到樹根，減少浪費。椰棗有蜂蜜的口感，組成成分幾乎都是單純的果糖，非常易於消化，且營養價值極高，含有對人體有用的多種維生素與礦物質。在中東地區有一句諺語：「每天吃椰棗，毒邪不上身。」
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