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Source: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/22/2742292/revealing-the-quirkier-side-of-israel

Chelm Awards Reveal the Quirkier Side of Israel

(JTA) Daniella Ashkenazy - A roundup of some of the best odd news stories from Chelm-on-the-Med Online, an Israeli Internet news outlet in English that features snippets of daily life gleaned from the Hebrew press, reveals the lighter side of Israeli life. Take Israeli innovation. Advances include naturally dehydrated tomatoes for spreading on bread to end the bane of soggy sandwiches. Or a lifelike motorized plastic Nile crocodile to convince 70,000 pelicans to stop feeding at kibbutz fish ponds when migrating between Europe and Africa.

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