Noga Hareuveni (; 1924–2007) was an Israeli

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and scholar of Judaic studies. In 1994 Noga Hareuveni was awarded the

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for his leading role in the creation of the Biblical garden and nature preserve named Neot Kedumim.

Early life and education

Noga Hareuveni's parents, Ephraim and Hannah Hareuveni, were botanists who emigrated from Russia to Ottoman Palestine in 1912. They collected and classified plants that were mentioned in the Holy Scriptures of

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. On the

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campus of Jerusalem's

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, they maintained the Museum of Biblical and

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ic Botany, until it was destroyed in the 1948 war. After earning a master's degree in botany and Judaic studies, Noga Hareuveni developed a field survival course for training the Hagana and

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, Israel's pre-state military organizations. After 1948, he taught the same program to the Israel Defense Forces.A Garden of the Prophets and Sages
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Career

In the 1960s Hareuveni realized his parents' 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.

Selected publications

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References

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