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Gitit Ginat

The little one” or “the baby” − a tiny arbutus or strawberry tree ‏(ktalab, in Hebrew‏) − still doesn’t look like a real tree yet. It is sprouting branches and small leaves next to the trunk of its “father,” which has been around since the World War I era and is now dying. Alongside the little one, however, an “elder brother” is thriving. It was successfully cloned from the parent tree after several...