abstract:Simcha Blass (or Symcha Blass, or Simkha Blass); November 27, 1897 – July 18, 1982; ) was an Israeli engineer and inventor. He was a main figure of water development in Israel, initiator, introducer and developer of new drip irrigation systems, inventor of new dripper (with his son Yeshayahu).
Polish-born SimchaBlass is credited with introducing new "spaghetti tubes" to Israel in the 1950s, with longer passageways that would not get blocked by small particles.