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"Several bullets entered my body? Tell me. How much? You know?"

"I have no idea but I need to know how the story will open."

This way I began my meeting with Moshe Telem, rishpon pumpkin man, with his plow and cultivator study came out before my journey to discover the scars left Syrian ambush which was caught when he was a soldier. Four hours later he crawled Banias and five bullets in his body, and since he is afraid only of God, "that he kept me alive. Three members were killed by".

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"Look", he reveals his left thigh, right behind the market, and scar hidden under a hat temple timeless shades bright-eyed, bushy mustache beneath them jubilant. Palm scar where three fingers, the little finger to the middle finger, frozen in motion as if to grab something lost. "Dead, completely dead," declares furrow, and a drummer on hand fell silent. "Five balls and one time I did not go to the doctor or recovery at the expense of the state."

He was born Rishpon 41, to parents who immigrated from Poland. "I still remember the English. We lived in a room and a half with goats, ten chickens, ate Rigel and Hobizh. Kiltrti horse, 1,800 acres, five in the morning until seven at night, seven 14-year-old boy through hell to collect money.

Fifty years was to grow, along with casual sexual affairs radish, turnip special or passion fruit. Says the pumpkin is answered easily, more than other crops. Easy to store it long after the harvest. Once, like everyone else, focus on the big one, Tripolitania, call the farmers and I call her liar because she knows ensure a bright orange and meaty but the mouth is often revealed anemia and watery.

Today he grows pumpkins Thai had tasted heaven and shape like a large flower, chestnut squash, pumpkin Georgian its shell full of bumps and even that nice to him is not entirely happy with her because she did not grow with ease and no sufficient sweetness, spaghetti squash, pumpkin, exotic, butternut American elongated or Pumpkin Stars, "buttons" Moshe calling her, she was sweet and crunchy and furrow crazy about her, like to eat it with the skin. When Sarkozy stayed with his Chef Award bought creasing hundred such units, "a man came out to me and gave me a taste prepared by it."

Twenty varieties of pumpkin, some hybrids created their own fields, stretched far behind the village houses, where agriculture still remember that flourished there before the growing real estate. Huge sheds are stacked, side by side, beautiful variety of green, orange and yellow. Most of them small, sort of one would not dream of becoming Cinderella's carriage. those who can not scare anyone on Halloween, much less the evil spirit of Stingy Jack that every year, on October 31, re frightened giant pumpkins carved their eyes burning candle flames.

I asked him if he was in touch with geneticists, the Volcani Institute or seed companies. I wanted to find out if he knows the story of pumpkins acorns thought to call it above to be met, but luckily one of the first boxes of paper rolled hands cliff. The chef fell in love with taste and texture and appalled by name and offered to call her chestnut pumpkin.

But furrow cried. "God forbid," he thundered, surrounded by smiling family members who know the way of the future. "No Volcani or seed companies. I do everything myself. I have my methods and I have my ways cultivation and fertilization. I do not cooperate. Does not pass my knowledge to others. Seed companies dictate the supply on the shelves. They hold the all the power. I have a method of growing and cultivating strains of mine. I travel all over the world, exposed to species and bring them here. cost me grow acres a quarter of what comes to other farmers. I know dry area before picking raise the sugar pumpkin. These techniques I broke my back for them . In the past I have shared things I found out and it was taken away for no consideration. No one sees you rather than counting on you. I bled for getting on, I gave up the prices of water, taxation, lack of consideration of the country. We work ".

And I look into the eyes lightning, strong body of knowledge that all his hard work and remained upright and flexible, and I ask him if age 73 is not disturbed by the fact that all the secrets of life saved him. If you would not like to write things, at least to his family. But a big smile intact. For the history books he has his dance. That one pumpkin rishpon is known choreographer who signed on more than eighty dances with connected. Dance until now travels around the world to convey dancing. Japan, South America, "Tomorrow morning I fly to Holland."

The man whose whole relationship with the land is reserved, a poet all his love of dance to anyone willing to listen. "What do you know at all. At 24, I was a parent Carmon, danced thousands of people every week at Tel Aviv University. I spent one evening three dances at various levels. Who do you think initiated the marathon dances of Caesarea? Who was in charge of dance at the opening of the Maccabiah of South America was held in Montevideo ? " He takes me to another quiz, and I'm trying to find out what are his Hslagrim. Perhaps what collective memory will cost me again, but otherwise little shepherd "or" Evening came, "feet do not know anything. Not adhered Karmiel Dance Festival in honor composed, certainly not adhere or adheres era tank, a dance composed in honor of his children only middle Inbal Dance refused to name, but when a nation goes out pumpkin pie coffee invented, the first clear defeat not required to dance to weave fame name.

The food smells invade the yard of container and me when we go back to the field, where almost all the pumpkin has been harvested. Pots come of age. These provided me Sapir, the groom of Telem, and Uri Grunpeter, winner of honor and who is responsible for bringing all Thales's Pumpkin Farmers Market of Tel Aviv Port. At noon, I ask creasing excited to teach me what step he brought to the world. And when he got up to demonstrate the step plow, who brought the field into the penalty area, the body responds to him, challenges the age or time, and I look down at my feet knew wars and hard work, the sandals even in winter curators feet with which he walks in tall vegetation fields rishpon . "Are not you afraid of snakes?" I asked him first when I watched him in tense between pumpkins lying. "Honey, I told you. I'm only afraid of God."

In honor of his days dancing farmer, who knows how to come down to earth in his own way, and in honor of pumpkins filled with flavor and perfume I bring you recipes Mdbkt lunch we knew Rishpon. The Thales's mini pumpkin on Fridays you'll find farmers market in Tel Aviv port, an oasis 24 pavilion, and half-free network. And not only that - these days celebrated in honor of the furrow gourds Olive Leaf restaurant - look it up on November 7.