To Jews around the world, the current Jewish year, 5782, might not seem to have great significance, but among Israeli farmers, this year is a momentous one. We’re currently in a shmita year-a full ...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, early settlers who decided to settle in the lands of Israel faced a huge challenge: how to farm in conditions of sweltering heat and minimal rainfall. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israeli agriculture (photo credit: Courtesy, Hadar Ezra) "It feels like taking a first breath after years of suffocation. We sowed ...

The Israel-Hamas war has plunged Israel’s agricultural heartlands, located around the Gaza Strip and in the north near the Lebanese and Syrian borders, into crisis. Israeli airstrikes, ground ...

Under the deal, Israel will contribute advanced seeds and agricultural expertise, while Moldova provides land, water, and labor. Israel has taken a major step to secure its wheat supply by signing a ...

In an Israeli farming community in the Upper Galilee adjacent to the border with Lebanon, a new Israeli agricultural boarding school is opening this fall, combining education through agriculture and ...

Uri Dorman has been concerned about the Hamas war’s impact on farms near the Gaza and Lebanese borders. “All those farms are very close to the fence. We have basically built a great part of our ...

India and Israel have announced a major expansion of their agricultural partnership, taking their Centres of Excellence to ...

TANZANIA has commended Israel’s MASHAV programme, which provides hands-on agricultural training for Tanzanian youth in Israel while also proposing expanding the initiative by deploying Israeli experts ...

ASHKELON, Israel — The soldiers guarding Avi Chivivian’s organic vegetable farm in southern Israel must first scour every corner of his fields for militants before they give him the all clear: He has ...