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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

bananas

Anti-government protesters clash with police at the Indigenous Embera community of Arimae, Panama, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
June 7, 2025, 4:02 pm
Panama president calls on archbishop, top rabbi to mediate with striking workers
Move comes after nearly two months of protests that have seen demonstrators and law enforcement injured
By Alma Solís
Performance artist David Datuna (L) moments before removing a $120,000 artwork -- a banana taped to a wall -- and eating it, at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach on December 8, 2019. (Screenshot: Instagram)
December 8, 2019, 10:02 am
Man eats $120,000 piece of art — a banana taped to wall
Crowd baffled as performance artist David Datuna removes exhibit at Art Basel show in Miami Beach; no action planned against him
By AFP
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 photo of a person peeling a banana. (iStock)
April 29, 2019, 1:54 pm
Ban on banana-eating artwork draws ridicule in Poland
Activists, opposition politicians post photos of themselves eating the fruit after a video featured at Warsaw museum was deemed obscene
By Agencies
A young African Sudanese man seen riding a truck carrying bananas in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90
From the WebSeptember 28, 2017, 2:21 pm
Genetic manipulation makes strides in war against banana fungus
Calcalist: Israel’s Evogene Ltd. and Rahan Meristem Ltd. say they have managed to develop fungus resistant banana strains
Banana bread (photo credit: roygbivibgyor [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
November 3, 2013, 12:22 pm
Going bananas
The best way to use up that overripe fruit sitting on the counter
By Phyllis Glazer
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