Noga Hareuveni

Noga Hareuveni (1924–2007) was an Israeli botanist and scholar of Judaic studies. 

In 1994 Noga Hareuveni won the Israel Prize for his leading role in the creation of a Biblical garden and nature preserve, named Neot Kedumim. 

Noga Hareuveni's parents, Ephraim and Hannah Hareuveni, were botanists who emigrated from Russia to British Palestine in 1912.  They collected and classified plants that were mentioned in the Holy Scriptures of Judaism.  On the Mount Scopus campus of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, they maintained the Museum of Biblical and Talmudic Botany, until it was destroyed in the 1948 war.  In the 1960s their son Noga realized their dream of establishing a botanical reserve of biblical plants, which is today called Neot Kedumim.  On 253 hectares, the staff of the botanical reserve now cultivates tens of thousands of trees and other plants.  Great Lebanon cedars are the most impressive of the trees. 

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