Tag: Agriculture
New Israeli research helps keep strawberries fresher for 15 days
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...
‘Israel has to be much more food self-sufficient,’ expert warns
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...
Tu B’Shevat highlights challenges being faced by Israeli farmers
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...
Israeli minister calls farmers ‘best guardians’ of Judea and Samaria
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...
Florist brings what he learned in Israel to inner-city Chicago
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...
Cyberattack shutters Galilee farm water controllers
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,...
New protein-based biosensor detects potato and tomato crop disease
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...
New Jersey Jewish farming colony archive gets $24,500 grant to digitize materials
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...
Turning an arid desert into an unexpected breadbasket
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),...
Erdan holds event at UN to bolster relations between Israel and Africa
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan held a program on Monday to showcase Israel’s technology and boost ties between the Jewish state and Africa.
The event, held in collaboration with Innovation: Africa and its founder...