A tribute to Daniel Yakir. Fig man of Israel

I have to thank my new friend Lou for sharing this video of Daniel Yakir. It's absolute treasure. This is a tour of his orchard back in 2004. You can see a few varieties on there. At his peak he had about 350 varieties from around the world.

Daniel was an interesting man, a movie in Israel maybe in the works about his life. He was friends with Pierre Baud, lived next to the former president of Israel and may have been one of the first to do a fig eating Selfie on camera. He pioneered this move for all of us newbies on youtube. =)
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Daniel passed in 2015 so this is a small tribute to keep his legacy alive.

figs of Israel:
http://figs4fun.com/links/FigLink006f.pdf


Fig Varieties of the world. By Daniel Yakir. Fig tour of an Israeli orchard. Video by Lou.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIkzKbu7bM