TEL AVIV, Israel – In Israel’s ongoing fight across multiple fronts, a new concern is emerging after almost a year.
As farmers leave their fields to answer the call to arms, the food supply could become a threat to Israel’s survival.
Since the October 7th attack, almost 90 percent of Israel’s farmers have reported significant damage to their land, equipment, and livestock. As for servicing the fields, most foreign workers have fled, and many farmers are serving as reservists, with others included in the 80,000 evacuated from the growing hostility in the north.
Dr. Liron Amdur, an Israeli agricultural and food systems researcher, told CBN News, “The agriculture in Israel is in danger because most of the fields are on the borders.”
This threat resulted in a rapidly convened conference on Israel’s food security that included agriculture experts such as Dr. Amdur and Yoel Zilberman of Hoshomer Hachadash, an organization focused on preserving the land and helping farmers.
Zilberman, who co-founded Hashomer Hachadash, told us the war has highlighted the vulnerability of the food supply because so much is imported.
“We know that there is one port that got closed because of the Houthis nearby, like in the Red Sea (near) Eilat, and the danger on our
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