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ReGrow Israel – לתת באהבה

מה גורם לאישה שנולדה בלונדון, בעלת תואר בחינוך מהאוניברסיטה אוקספורד, לעזוב הכל, לעלות לישראל ולהחליט שתשנה את החקלאות הישראלית ברחבי העולם, בעזרת עשרות מהשפיעים מאז ה-7 באוקטובר 2320 כ-150 מיליון שקלים בשיקום ובשדרוג החקלאות בעוטף ובכלל ובפיתוח בצפון. איך הצליחה לשכנע דניאל אברהם, מנכ”לית העמותה, יהודים עשירים בחו”ל, לתרום כסף לחקלאות בישראל. סיפור מופלא על השראה, מקצוענות, ציונות ותקווה לעתיד טוב יותר. וטיפ לממשלת ישראל, תקשיבו לדניאל, אולי תלמדו משהו על חשיבות החקלאות וביטחון מזון כאן וברחבי העולם. בלעדי!

Nefesh B’Nefesh announces 12th annual Bonei Zion winners

Eight outstanding immigrants from English-speaking countries have been named recipients of the 12th Annual Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize. The prestigious award recognizes exceptional individuals whose professional achievements, community leadership, and contributions have made a lasting impact on Israeli society and helped strengthen the State of Israel.

“ב-7.10 היו לי מחבלים בבית, ב-10.10 כבר הייתי פה בחזרה”

יוזמת ReGrow Israel, שהוקמה ימים ספורים לאחר 7 באוקטובר, הודיעה על שיתוף פעולה עם חברת אורקל כדי להטמיע כלים מבוססי דאטה ובינה מלאכותית בחקלאות הישראלית. המיזם, שפועל בשיתוף משקי הנגב, נולד מתוך הצורך לשקם את החקלאות בעוטף לאחר הפגיעה הקשה שספגו המשקים, הרפתות והשטחים החקלאיים.

The farmers of Israel’s North are not fighting for nostalgia. They’re fighting for our independence.

Drive into Metula, the northernmost community of Israel, and before you see a single house, you pass a roundabout. In the center, like so many Israeli towns, are the city’s chosen symbols: four large green apples.

Not a tank. Not a monument to war. Apples.

Northern Israel farmers rush to replant orchards devastated by rocket fire

Farmers in northern Israel are racing to restore orchards and vineyards destroyed during more than 18 months of rocket fire, as the region faces a critical planting window that could determine the pace of agricultural recovery after the war.

Across the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights, large stretches of farmland remain damaged nearly two and a half years after the October 7 attacks and the escalation that followed along Israel’s northern border. Agricultural groups estimate that about 1,250 acres of orchards and vineyards were destroyed during months of rocket strikes and prolonged military restrictions.

ReGrow Israel Harvests Insights from Oracle Data Intelligence for Agriculture to Support Agricultural Recovery and Future Resilience

ReGrow Israel has chosen Oracle Agriculture Data Intelligence to help restore and strengthen farming across the country. The platform integrates satellite imagery, ground data, and sensor feeds in one environment, giving ReGrow a real-time view into soil conditions, crop progress, and water use to support better, more predictable production.

Kibbutz Kissufim’s Return: Rebuilding Community From the Dairy Up

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s agricultural community was upended. Kibbutz Kissufim, roughly a half-mile from the Gaza border, was desperately hard-hit.

“The kibbutz lost 20 members who were murdered or killed, most of the homes were damaged, 20 houses were completely destroyed and the entire community was evacuated. Only now, nearly two years later, have families begun the gradual process of returning home,” says Keren Berler, CEO of Kissufim Bonim Atid.

In war-ravaged northern Israel, farmers replant apple trees hoping for sweeter years ahead

DISHON — Joseph Fahima stood under the clear sky and bright sun. It was perfect weather to harvest apples on his family farm in northern Israel’s Naftali Mountain Range in time for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

The apples are usually paired with honey and eaten during the festive holiday meal to symbolize a sweet new year, said Fahima, 68.

But his 800 apple trees are dead, their branches stunted and their leaves withered and brown.

Hezbollah attacks caused more than $108 million in damages to northern Israeli agriculture — study

ReGrow Israel study estimating costs of a year of war on the Israel-Lebanon border serves as a ‘call to action,’ director says. Northern Israel’s agricultural heartland is facing unprecedented devastation, with a partial estimate of more than $108 million in physical damages reported as a result of the ongoing conflict, according to a recent report by the agriculture-focused nonprofit ReGrow Israel.

In southern Israel, U.S. Jewish leaders hear about the agricultural toll of the Oct. 7 attacks.

KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel — A carpet of green spreads outside the fence of this community in southern Israel as the wheat and potato fields that were trampled by terrorists as they entered the kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, and left bare through more than a year of war, have since been replanted and are growing anew in Israel’s rainy winter.

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