I have been wondering how it goes with the efforts to grow Argania spinosa
in Israel

Here's an article on the subject. A
HREF="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-037.html"New Crops
as a Possible Solution for the Troubled Israeli Export Market/A
This article mentions that they are still in the testing stage:
A HREF="http://desertagriculture.org/germp1.html"Germplasm 1 and 2 in the
Desert Agriculture project/A

Syracuse routinely gets Clementines from Israel every winter, and occasionally
tomatoes.
Thank you for the interesting information. I never heard of the tree before.
Actually the latest newsworthy product from Israel is a gun that shoots around
corners.
Want to "hear a good one?"
Remember the guy with a university address who wanted the scientific name for
watermelon radish? I did a two-minute search and wrote:
Why can't people, especially university students, learn to do simple Google
searches? The proper name for "Watermelon radish" is Shinrimei. If you want to
give it a botanical name, it is Raphanus sativus 'Shinrimei.'
He wrote back:
I did do quite a few searches and never found
a definitive answer. (In fact, I work for IBM and teach a community service
course on advanced Internet searching.)

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)