The Israeli inventor of the cherry tomato will receive a state prize. The 2006 Israel Prize for Agriculture Research will go to Nahum Keidar, who developed the bite-sized fruit now enjoyed worldwide, the Education Ministry announced this week. Keidar, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, originally intended cherry tomatoes to be a snack.
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