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Illustrations
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| 1. | Yarkon River after the collapse of the bridge in the Maccabiah's opening ceremonies, 1997 |
| 2. | Bedouin herdsmen, circa 1940 |
| 3. | The Reading Power Plant under construction, 1937 |
| 4. | First spraying against malaria in the Sharon Valley, circa 1940 |
| 5. | Menahem Ussishkin hosting Albert Einstein in Palestine at JNF nursery |
| 6. | “Father of the Trees”Yosef Weitz inspecting JNF forest, 1953 |
| 7. | Ussishkin and Weitz at tree planting ceremony, circa 1935 |
| 8. | SPNI founding director, Amotz Zahavi, with Israeli President Yizhak Navon |
| 9. | Azariah Alon, the SPNI's “trumpet” and spokesman for nature in Israel |
| 10. | Yoav Sagi, first head of the Nature Protection Department and later director and chair of the SPNI |
| 11. | Yossi Leshem, SPNI leader and bird advocate extraordinaire, circa 1997 |
| 12. | Dr. Uzi Paz, the Nature Reserve Authority's first director |
| 13. | General Avram Yoffe, who waged war for Israel's nature reserves and won |
| 14. | Dr. D'vora Ben Shaul from Texas, the NRA's first woman employee and first scientist, 1999 |
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| 15. | Dan Perry, NRA Director and lifelong nature advocate |
| 16. | Hyrax, indigenous desert species |
| 17. | Professor Hillel Shuval, water-quality advocate and member of the Ministry of Health's original sanitation team |
| 18. | Laying pipes for the Yarkon-Negev water carrier, 1954 |
| 19. | A polluted stream leading to the Palmahim beach, circa 1974 |
| 20. | The first meeting of the Knesset's Interior and Environment Committee, 1972 |
| 21. | Green Parliament member Josef Tamir speaking at Environmental Day, 1972 |
| 22. | Israel's Environmental Protection Service on a field trip to Mitzpeh Ramon, 1982, with Director Uri Marinov |
| 23. | The Haifa Oil Refineries, site of the first major government action |
| 24. | Ronni Miloh, Israel's first Minister of the Environment |
| 25. | Yossi Sarid, unlikely Green icon in the Ministry of the Environment |
| 26. | Minister of the Environment Yossi Sarid lobbying Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to preserve the Sharon Park, in the field, 1995 |
| 27. | The Hiriyah garbage dump, 1980 |
| 28. | Nehama Ronen, Ministry of the Environment 1996–99 and environmental member of the Knesset |
| 29. | Firefighting efforts in JNF forest, 1974 |
| 30. | Prime Minister Levi Eshkol visiting Beit Ja'an, circa 1966 |
| 31. | Bedouin shepherds outside Beer Sheva's bus station seeking pastures |
| 32. | Herschell and Shirley Benyamin, EcoNet's tireless crusaders, 1998 |
| 33. | Reuven Yosef, fighter for preserving Eilat's bird habitats, posing with two Levna sparrowhawks, 1998 |
| 34. | A rally by activists protesting inappropriate treatment of medical wastes in Modi'in's municipal landfill, 1999 |
| 35. | Elli Varberg, head of the marine pollution prevention station at Eilat, inspecting equipment after Aqaba cleanup, 1995 |