A group of South African scientists is visiting Israel to study its rain-making systems, in anticipation of a water shortage in South Africa by the year 2020. The group will spend some time at the Hebrew University laboratory of Prof. Avraham Gagin who, together with Profs. Yehuda Neumann and Ruben Gavriel, have acquired a world-wide reputation for successfully seeding clouds to produce a considerable increase in local rainfalls.
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