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Levav Weinberg, a farmer in Metula, stands in his apple orchard with a view of the border with Lebanon and Kafr Kila, once a Hezbollah stronghold, in the background, on September 18, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2025, 2:00 pm
In war-ravaged northern Israel, farmers replant apple trees hoping for sweeter years ahead
With some 99,000 acres of farmland in the north destroyed during the Hezbollah conflict, growers face a bittersweet return as they judge whether to save orchards or start from scratch
By Diana Bletter
Hezi Mena spots the first blossom on a kiwi tree in his orchard on Margaliot, northern Israel, on March 26, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 3, 2025, 8:10 am
As north recovers from fighting, farmers bring war-ravaged fields back to life
Growers uprooted by months of rocket attacks and others who dug in despite the danger are salvaging their lands, but some fear a tense truce with Hezbollah won’t hold for long
By Diana Bletter
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
Javier Sinay visits the Jewish cemetery in Moise Ville, Argentina, during a visit to the village in 2013. (Paula Salischiker/ via JTA)
June 24, 2022, 3:42 am
A series of 19th-century murders connects an Argentine writer to his family’s past
When Javier Sinay learned that his great-grandfather was a fellow journalist who covered the killing of shtetl immigrants, he connected with his Jewish roots – and wrote a hit book
By Julian Voloj
Ilana Toweg, right, and her husband Doron field countless prayer requests because of their prominence as Israel farmers strictly observing shmita, Jewish laws about letting farmland lie fallow every seven years. (Deborah Danan/JTA)
April 23, 2022, 8:38 am
Why an Israeli farmer is celebrated for killing his crops (Hint: It’s in the Bible)
At the urging of his wife Ilana, Doron Toweg let their eggplants die, costing them massive contracts, as they joined a growing movement to observe the biblical precept of shmita
By Deborah Danan
Alex Kohanski began using gender-neutral pronouns on their first day of the Adamah Jewish farming fellowship. (Courtesy of Kohanski)/ via JTA
February 27, 2021, 3:07 am
Transgender Jews in the US find a safe haven in an unexpected place: The farm
17-year-old Jewish farm fellowship Adamah says since its inception at least 10% of participants have changed pronouns over the course of the program
By Ben Harris
Israeli blueberries grown in carefully tended containers in the Golan Heights will now be marketed from 2021 in Israel, Dubai and Europe Courtesy Carmel Berry)
January 23, 2021, 1:58 am
Blueberries from Down Under thrive in Israel’s north, indoors
Berry bushes are in the pink in Golan greenhouses, but the price may make you see red
By Jessica Steinberg
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Ian Yosef Hertzmark at his farm in Randallstown, Maryland, in February. His sales of flour have more than doubled during the pandemic. (Mike Tintner/ via JTA)
June 11, 2020, 4:09 am
Pandemic brings bumper crop of customers for some small US kosher food purveyors
For businesses such as local flour maker Migrash Farms and ethical meat producer Grow & Behold, a sharp drop in restaurant sales has been replaced by housebound do-it-yourselfers
By Ben Harris
Members of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion helping get peonies ready for sale in Israel earlier this year, before many social distancing regulations took effect. (Courtesy Kibbutz Kfar Etzion)
April 7, 2020, 9:10 am
With exports shuttered, farmers turn to WhatsApp to hawk their produce
Need asparagus? A bunch of organic herbs? There’s produce aplenty for sale during the coronavirus crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Urban Adamah fellows working on the farm (Courtesy of Urban Adamah)
February 27, 2020, 9:50 pm
As Jewish farming programs yield more alumni, a growing community takes root
The Jewish Farming Network gathered 200 members in just 2 days, and now numbers over 800, as members flung far across the US seek others who connect faith and food
By Ben Harris
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