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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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Israeli soldiers volunteer to pick oranges with farmers in the moshav of Beit Hillel in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, on November 10, 2023, amid increasing cross-border tensions between Hezbollah and Israel. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
September 24, 2024, 11:23 am
Over 1,500 war compensation claims made by farmers; Tax Authority has paid NIS 91m
22,000 dunams of fruit orchards, vines, avocado plantations not being regularly farmed along Lebanese border; 1,500 dunams of fruit trees and vines damaged by fires
By Sue Surkes
Produce is sorted at the Leket Israel Logistics Center (Credit: Amir Yakoby/Leket Israel).
April 21, 2024, 7:54 pm
Israeli aid groups address food crisis amid war fallout ahead of Passover
The Israel-Hamas war has kneecapped Israel’s agriculture industry, but volunteer organizations have come to the rescue as the festival of freedom arrives
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
In this undated photograph, Brothers in Arms volunteers help on a farm amid the war in Gaza. (Brothers in Arms Civilian Situation Room)
March 28, 2024, 9:23 am
Once-thriving agriculture struggles to stay afloat in evacuated northern border area
Almost no supplies are delivered and few people remain at farms and food tech startups in zone battered by rocket fire and drone attacks from Lebanese terror group Hezbollah
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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
Benny Anderman stands in a greenhouse next to vines of rotten red bell peppers, Moshav Talmei Eliyahu, November 15, 2023. (Mati Wagner / The Times of Israel)
November 24, 2023, 10:35 am
As crops wither, farmers say fields will soon be barren without foreign workers
Volunteers help ease the agricultural sector’s devastation since Oct. 7, but as skilled manpower shortages take root throughout the country, farmers lose hope
By Mati Wagner
Israeli volunteers help with the pomegranate harvest at Kibbutz Kfar Menahem in south-central Israel on October 29 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
November 9, 2023, 6:05 pm
Agriculture Ministry seeking to lure out-of-work Israelis to take up jobs on farms
Ministry promises to double wages of farmhands in fields close to the Gaza and Lebanon borders as it tries to make up for a serious manpower shortage across the agricultural sector
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Foreign workers work at an onion farm on August 12, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
October 22, 2023, 4:54 pm
Ministry wants 8,000 West Bank Palestinians to replace foreign farmhands who fled war
Thousands of Thai laborers have reportedly picked up and left, leaving agricultural facilities hurting for help; plan is opposed by Ben Gvir over security concerns
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Two Holocaust survivor families on the Vineland, New Jersey-area poultry farm they jointly purchased in 1947. From left to right: Dina and Dorothy Liverant, standing next to a visitor, with Ruth, Bronia, and Nuchim Grin, Seth Stern's mother and grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Stern)
September 2, 2023, 3:47 am
How Holocaust survivors flocked to NJ to start a thriving poultry farming industry
Seth Stern’s new book ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ tells how his grandparents joined thousands of other Jews in a plucky venture as they rebuilt their lives in rural America
By Rich Tenorio
Amar'e Stoudemire, assistant coach of the Brooklyn Nets, samples one of his own signature Stoudemire Farms burgers at his booth at the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan, October 15, 2021. (Julia Gergely via JTA)
October 19, 2021, 8:36 am
Stoudemire adds ‘farmer’ to list of post-NBA careers
Former player turned coach and kosher winemaker helps out at a booth in Manhattan farmers’ market to show off products from his family-run ranch
By julia GERGELY
Amiram Moierman, 85, is a lifelong fruit farmer who's been fighting the battle against encroaching imports. In his Karmei Yosef orchards, June 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 7, 2021, 2:32 pm
The fruit farmer who swears by his pomegranates (and loquats and apricots)
Amiram Moerman says pomegranate juice saved him from the coronavirus, but rails against the Israeli government and its latest efforts to change the local farming industry
By Jessica Steinberg
Buying vegetables at an Osher Ad store in Jerusalem, August 12 2021 (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 26, 2021, 6:39 am
Doubts crop up as bid to lower price of produce targets farms for reform
Plan, which would up imports and pay farmers directly rather than via tariffs, ‘risks destroying entire sector,’ warns academic as data suggests retail markups may be to blame
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Yuval Cinnamon, an embryo specialist who heads the NRS Poultry research group in Rehovot's Volcani Institute, showing the lab where he and his team are attempting to change the genetic technology of eggs (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2021, 6:42 pm
Israeli tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling
Rehovot team finds ‘genetic modification’ to halt embryogenesis, stopping formation of males when they are just a cell cluster; males routinely killed because they can’t lay eggs
By Jessica Steinberg
Hashomer Hachadash farm volunteers pick a field of wheat, as part of the SunDo app that matches farmers with volunteers (Courtesy Hashomer Hachadash)
May 17, 2021, 11:46 am
Farmers and volunteers find each other with agricultural app SunDo
With the harvest festival of Shavuot approaching, non-profit Hashomer Hachadash is helping to build a stronger connection between Israelis and the land through farming
By Jessica Steinberg
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