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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

agricultural exports

A fire rages near an agricultural field in Israel near the border with Gaza, on September 12, 2021. (Flash90)
October 20, 2023, 5:50 am
For Israeli farmers near Gaza, damage may be temporary but long-term crisis looms
The border area’s agricultural sector could undergo a rapid rehabilitation, but much depends on whether the war scares away foreign workers, experts say
By Canaan Lidor
Freshly harvested cannabis (iStock)
May 18, 2022, 6:11 pm
First-ever export of Israeli medical cannabis seeds heads to US
Agriculture Ministry hails development as a major step toward country becoming a significant player in the global cannabis market
By ToI Staff
Michael Peres
November 16, 2020, 5:06 pm
Michael Peres
Dubai’s Fresh Market displays Israeli produce for the first time
Shlomi Fogel, Chairman of Carmel Agrexco, one of Israel’s largest exporters of agricultural produce, was present at the event and expressed his delight over the initiative
An Israeli Arab collects wheat from a field soon after the harvest, at the settlement of Burgata. April 08, 2013. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
October 25, 2020, 8:08 pm
Israel to send $5 million worth of wheat to ‘our new friends in Sudan’
‘We are looking forward to a warm peace,’ Netanyahu’s office says, as Jewish state seeks to provide Khartoum with swift crop of benefits for normalization deal
By ToI Staff
Cattle at Kibbutz Sarid in the Jezreel Valley on January 24, 2017. (Anat Hermoni/Flash90)
February 20, 2020, 1:27 pm
Israel, Palestinian Authority appear to reach arrangement to end trade war
PA says Israel agreed to allow it to import cattle directly from abroad; defense minister says Palestinians consented to lifting their boycott of cattle from Israel
By Adam Rasgon
A Palestinian vendor sells dates for Ramadan at a market in Jenin, June 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)
February 11, 2020, 1:21 am
Palestinians launch diplomatic push to get Israel to end export ban
Jerusalem on Sunday said it would stop letting Palestinians export goods through Jordan, days after also blocking products going to Israel in retaliation for cattle boycott
By Adam Rasgon
Bananas on display in a Jerusalem market. Banana farming is one of the most stable and profitable agricultural sectors in Israel and the largest among the country's plantation-based crops. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 6, 2019, 5:13 pm
Banana republic: Israel faces killer fungus that can destroy the crop nationwide
Israeli researchers struggle to contain a particularly violent strain of Panama disease, a global threat that is eating its way through one of the country’s most profitable crops
By Amir Ben-David
Illustrative: A Palestinian youth in Jerusalem displays his produce during Ramadan, July 24, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
December 18, 2018, 9:42 pm
Minister said to freeze Palestinian produce imports, defying security warning
Uri Ariel’s decision decried by defense officials as ‘populist’ and destabilizing, could cost Palestinian economy NIS 1m. each day; final decision rests with cabinet, PM
By ToI Staff
Torrential rains have destroyed the temporary quarantine quarters for 100 Jacob‘s sheep, who recently arrived in Israel from Canada, on December 18, 2016. (courtesy Gil Lewinsky)
December 18, 2016, 11:34 pm
Flooding threatens to destroy biblical sheep project
It took two years to get the Jacob‘s sheep from Canada to Israel; now, after heavy storms, the first sheep, Rachel, has died, and 40 are sick
By Melanie Lidman
The Jacob‘s sheep in quarantine in southern Israel on December 5, 2016. (courtesy The Friends of Jacob Sheep)
December 6, 2016, 11:50 am
Biblical sheep in Israel for first time in millennia
119 Jacob’s sheep, a heritage breed mentioned in Genesis, began arriving last week
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative photo of a woman shopping for produce in a supermarket. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
November 29, 2015, 6:25 pm
Sanctions plant the seeds for Israeli ag exports to Russia
Already big buyers of produce from Israel, Russian consumers are likely to get more of them as Turkish vegetables are phased out by Moscow
By David Shamah
A CollPlant tobacco hothouse, used for 'growing' human collagen. Collplant's technology was developed at Hebrew University and commercialized by Yissum (Photo credit: Courtesy)
November 9, 2015, 1:45 pm
New fund aims to bring Israeli agritech marvels to the world
Hebrew University’s Yissum tech transfer company sets out to commercialize local innovative agricultural technologies
By David Shamah
Pharrell Williams performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
September 22, 2015, 10:41 pm
BDS protest at Pharrell Williams’ S. Africa gig
Cape Town pro-Palestinian demo far smaller than predicted
By JTA and AFP
Pharrell Williams has come under pressure from BDS for partnering with South African retail group Woolworths (Screenshot from YouTube)
September 21, 2015, 4:28 pm
Pro-Palestinian activists to crash Pharrell Williams concert
US singer faces protest at South Africa performance over partnership with retail group Woolworths
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jewish community leaders in Florence, Italy, on August 28, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
August 28, 2015, 11:02 pm
PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS
Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because ‘science and technology are stronger than any boycott’
By Tamar Pileggi
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