Judy Heller never thought she'd pick a pomegranate in her life — but in mid-November, she found herself doing exactly that on a farm in Israel, driven by the desire to help the country after the Oct.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Ubon Namsan says he's become used to the loud whoosh that signals an incoming rocket from Hezbollah in Lebanon, a country only a few thousand feet north of the Israeli kiwi orchard ...

Yet, amid this challenge, Israel has overlooked one of the most credible and potentially influential communities already living inside the country: foreign workers. They arrived to work in ...

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 ...

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Over the last 11 months, we’ve seen vegetable prices jump by 18 percent and fruit prices by 12%, due to agricultural shortages. It’s hard to understate the impact of these rising costs — especially ...

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing... TEL AVIV, Israel — Ubon Namsan says he's become ...