Olive Tree at Tell Lakish (Sept 2003)
The Jews have a law to reserve a small portion for the poor, the widows and the orphans.
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In recent times it was considered more efficient to pick every one and set up a fund for the poor with a small percentage of the harvest.
Typical olive harvesting involved beating the branches with a stick and knocking the olives to the ground, or picking them by hand.
