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Israel and Guatemala sign scientific-technological accord

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Israel and Guatemala have reached an agreement to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries, furthering bilateral relations amid global calls for boycotting Israel over the war with Hamas. The accord was signed...

New Israeli research helps keep strawberries fresher for 15 days

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Protesters have claimed watermelons as an anti-Israel symbol due to their colors resembling the Palestinian flag palette. Israeli researchers are making headway with a different red fruit: the strawberry. Belal Abu Salha, a doctoral candidate...
Israeli reserve soldiers help farmers pick oranges in Moshav Beit Hillel, not far from the Israeli border with Lebanon, Nov. 10, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

‘Israel has to be much more food self-sufficient,’ expert warns

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Since 1948, when the fledgling State of Israel celebrated its independence and began exporting and importing goods from other countries, it has become reliant on global trade. Now, as the Jewish state and it faces...
Buyers and sellers at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, Aug 29, 2023. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS.

Tu B’Shevat highlights challenges being faced by Israeli farmers

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As Israelis celebrate the agricultural holiday of Tu B’Shevat on Thursday, Uri Dorman is concerned about the Hamas war's impact on farms near the Gaza and Lebanese borders. “All those farms are very close to...
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (left) and Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz, Aug. 2, 2023. Credit: Binyamin Regional Council.

Israeli minister calls farmers ‘best guardians’ of Judea and Samaria

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Following a tour on Wednesday of Jewish-owned agricultural sites in Samaria's Binyamin region, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter applauded farmers' role in protecting state lands in Judea and Samaria. "We came here to learn up...
Quilen Blackwell (right), president and co-founder of Southside Blooms in Chicago, on a trip to Israel with his wife Hannah Bonham Blackwell, their three children and his father. Credit: Courtesy.

Florist brings what he learned in Israel to inner-city Chicago

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Quilen Blackwell, a Madison, Wisc. native who became a born-again Christian at 18, took an interest in Israel and all things biblical as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student. Blackwell, now 38, participated in Hillel...
A cyberattack illustration. Credit: Kai Stachowiak/Pixabay via Wikimedia Commons.

Cyberattack shutters Galilee farm water controllers

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A cyberattack shut down some 10 water controllers in agricultural areas in Israel, temporarily stopping irrigation systems on affected farms on Sunday. “You have been hacked, Down with Israel,” read a message on the controllers,...
Potato plants grown in the greenhouse were infected with potato late blight or sprayed with water as control. Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

New protein-based biosensor detects potato and tomato crop disease

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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new molecular sensor system that detects harmful diseases in plants and food crops, including potatoes and tomatoes. Potatoes have become the world’s third major food...
Jacob Greenblatt delivers a load of white leghorns to Vineland Station for transport to Front Street in Philadelphia in 1915. Source: stockton.edu.

New Jersey Jewish farming colony archive gets $24,500 grant to digitize materials

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Stockton University’s Alliance Heritage Center has won a $24,500 grant to digitize the archives of the Alliance Colony, a Jewish farming community founded in southern New Jersey in the late 19th century. The center’s archives include physical...
Tanya Pons Allon picking strawberries at Arava R&D Center. Photo by Laura Ben-David.

Turning an arid desert into an unexpected breadbasket

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Maayan Kitron hands me a weird-looking yellow fruit wrapped in a cocoon. Gently, I open the papery husk and take a sweet bite of this golden berry (also called a ground cherry or strawberry tomato),...