Several tons of jonco bushes, a rush-like plant growing wild in the southern Negev, will shortly be shipped to Britain for tests to determine whether it can be used as a wood pulp substitute for a local paper manufacturing industry. The plant contains a large percentage of cellulose.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
