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Agricultural land at Gaza envelope

Israeli agriculture at risk: Farmers need you

NEWLY PLANTED young blue agave plants taking root in the Negev.

From whiskey to wine: Residents of the Gaza border are building an 'Alcohol empire'

By Alon Pearl/Globes/TNS

Wadi Attir, an innovative project that aims to promote sustainable agriculture among Israel’s Bedouin community in the Negev, January 28,2025.

At Wadi Attir, Bedouin mix agricultural tradition with hi-tech innovation

By Nicholas Potter

Cocoa beans

High hopes in Israel for 'super hero' cocoa that survived frontline conditions

By REUTERS

Mahaz’s farms sit in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where fellows are taught skills related to regenerative agriculture and homesteading arts—all in a Jewish context.

How Mahaz brings Jews back to the beauty of Jewish farming and agriculture

By HOWARD BLAS

Two new solar power projects by Enlight Renewable Energy, generated in the Gaza Envelope, are connected to the national electricity grid.

How 'energy islands' could help Israel build resilience for wartime

By REUTERS

Israeli farmer Elad Katzir walks in his field near the border with the southern Gaza Strip, in Nir Oz, Israel January 11, 2018.

IFCJ and HaShomer HaChadash launch $2 million food security initiative to support Israeli farmers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

International Jewry comes to Israel in wake of Oct.7 to volunteer.

'Duty to come': Diaspora Jews drop their lives to volunteer in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

American students in Israel's Negev on their volunteer mission

American teen volunteers change lives in Israel

By JNF-USA

Milk poured in a glass (illustrative)

Cows can produce more milk if you treat them better, study finds

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

LOOKING OUT at the horizon from Chevra Eco Farm.

Chevra Eco Farm: A green sanctuary in Israel made by immigrants

By BEN BRESKY

Global investors backing Negev, including Bedouin agriculture

By Ofer Petersburg

DANIELLE ABRAHAM: ‘The farmers are heroes.’

'In Israel, we have everything we need to save ourselves'

By NERIA BARR

MEMBERS OF Jerusalem’s Kehilat Kol Haneshama, the writer (left) and Joni Catalano-Sherman, volunteer at a strawberry farm.

Supporting Israeli farmers is essential

By LAURA KAM

Volunteering to harvest produce at farms in Israel's South near the Gaza border.

Israel's spirit of resilience on display at evacuated farms near Gaza

By MAX RICHARDSON

A researcher stands in an experimental rice field belonging to seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech near Kfar Tavor in northern Israel.

Israel's hi-tech firms helping tackle the food, agriculture crises

By SHLOMO MAITAL

Edete young pistachio pollination.

How an Israeli pollination company helped boost California’s pistachio crop

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

THE FARM’S storage sheds were burned during the October 7 attack.

Hamas massacre on Gaza border left Israeli farmers on brink of collapse

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN