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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

agriculture

An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)
August 4, 2024, 4:15 pm
Regulations enter into effect to ban starvation of hens to increase egg production
Denying hens food for eight to 12 days speeds up annual molting during which fewer eggs are laid and profits fall; animal welfare group: ‘Cruel practice’ crossed all lines
By Sue Surkes
Leket Israel volunteers gather near the Gaza border to help farmers, on March 11, 2024. (Leket Israel)
July 30, 2024, 6:37 am
Food waste cost economy NIS 1 billion during first six months of war — study
Lack of access and reduction in farmhands caused shortages that saw vegetables prices rise 18% and fruit prices 12%, says paper calling for more support for local growers
By Sue Surkes
Dikla Nasimi listens to her son Eliron at their home in Avdon on June 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Israelis from town 2 miles from Lebanon forced to return home after running out of funds
After a hotel stay subsidized by a tapped-out Christian organization, Avdon’s 600 residents are refused state housing provided to others within the same distance from border
By Canaan Lidor
Protesters march to the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 2, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 3, 2024, 3:13 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 3: Day 180 – Knesset protests, Haredi draft and maybe Israeli cocoa
Political correspondent Sam Sokol looks at anti-government protests, yeshivas and the army; reporter Sue Surkes discusses comptroller’s environment report and a possible new crop
By ToI Staff
Ellen Graber poses with one of her cacao plants at the Volcani Center in central Israel. (Courtesy: Ellen Graber)
March 27, 2024, 10:29 am
After surviving October 7, Israeli cocoa plants could help stave off world shortage
Chocolate-loving Ellen Graber’s ‘superhero’ seedlings, forced to fend for themselves after Hamas attack, survived 3.5 months without water or fertilizer, suggesting high resilience
By Sue Surkes
An aerial view of the Volcani Institute. (Yigal Elad, Wikipedia)
February 25, 2024, 10:02 pm
Agricultural research body says planned budget cuts will force it to halt activities
Volcani Institute fears having to renege on local, international research contracts, face lawsuits demanding return of funds, if Knesset approves amended 2024 budget
By Sue Surkes
Kari Warberg Block, a US farmer and entrepreneur, who has been volunteering pruning tomato vines and helping harvest farmland in the western Negev close to the Egyptian border, February 2024. (Courtesy)
February 9, 2024, 2:13 am
Meet the Christian entrepreneur becoming a voice for war-hit Israeli farmers
Kari Warberg Block is raising funds to replace destroyed agricultural equipment after volunteering in kibbutzim and collecting footage to share stories of farmers and innovations
By Sharon Wrobel
Dairy farm manager Gabo Altmark, a member of the Zikim civil guard, helped prevent Hamas terrorists from entering the kibbutz on October 7, pictured with Ghanian trainee Kwabena Frimpong on Kibbutz Zikim, December 2023. (Bernard Dichek)
January 13, 2024, 1:06 pm
Undeterred by Oct. 7 massacre, foreign interns keep Gaza-periphery dairy farms afloat
Agricultural students from Africa and Asia plant themselves on mostly-evacuated kibbutzim, helping to tend to the herds during a labor shortage
By Bernard Dichek
Picking persimmons in Rishpon in December 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 31, 2023, 10:01 am
Volunteers’ efforts bear fruit, but war-hit farmers would prefer professionals
With thousands of foreign field hands having fled, it’s taking too long to pick the season’s lemons, oranges, persimmons, avocados and strawberries, and some owners are despairing
By Jessica Steinberg
Inbal Mashash, the director of the Population and Immigration Authority’s Foreign Workers Administration, addresses the Knesset Committee on Foreign Workers on December 19, 2023. (Danny Shem-Tov/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)
December 20, 2023, 8:58 am
Despite war, more than 12,000 foreign workers have arrived in Israel, lawmakers told
Government working to recruit thousands of additional workers to make up for post-October 7 labor shortage, Population and Immigration Authority says
By Sam Sokol and AFP
View of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel, seen on October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
December 10, 2023, 10:22 am
Turn Gaza border area into model of sustainable development, green organization urges
Advocacy group Adam Teva V’Din presents roadmap for rebuilding more greenly, as government set to approve framework for 5-year plan to rehabilitate southern border communities
By Sue Surkes
Kenaf Ventures manager Uri Shapira stands in a field of kenaf plants that reach around four meters (13 feet) in height, Kfar Aza. (Kenaf Ventures )
November 20, 2023, 6:18 pm
Environmental startup vows to return to devastated kibbutz and help rebuild it
Just two days before devastating Hamas attack, Kenaf Ventures met with partners at Kfar Aza, one of the worst-hit communities, to celebrate partnership, discuss future
By Sue Surkes
Rahamim Mughrabi in his moshav near Netivot, Israel, on November 9, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
November 14, 2023, 9:39 am
On fields near Gaza, farmers and volunteers struggle to mitigate huge wartime damages
Growers dealing with multiple challenges, ranging from manpower shortages to sun-blocking dust, are enlisting help from unexpected places and vowing not to leave
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The fields of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, on the border of the Gaza Strip, where smoke rises in the distance. (Amir Tibon)
November 12, 2023, 12:40 am
Urban Israelis flock to Gaza border to tend farms left suddenly without workers
With many residents from the southern communities evacuated or called up to reserve duty, thousands of volunteers are heeding the call to help farmers pick vegetables and milk cows
By Eliyahu Freedman
Volunteers take a sunscreen break while picking pomegranates on a farm in Ashkelon, Israel, October 27, 2023. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
November 2, 2023, 3:01 pm
Plunged into crisis by war, Israel’s agricultural heartland fears for its future
Farmers unable to tend to their fields due to terror attacks and foreign laborers decamping to the safety of their homelands can only watch as imports fill market needs
By AP and ToI Staff
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