"This idea of 'making the desert bloom,' along ... behind the afforestation push in Israel/Palestine has implied that no existing human settlements or agriculture his been displaced or disrupted.
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 ...
Like the vast majority of the 30,000 foreign farm laborers in Israel, Namsan is from Thailand. These days, he and four other Thai men in his group spend most of their time working in a 7-kilometer ...
7 Hamas attacks. More than 7,000 have left Israel since. More than 50 Thai citizens were killed or taken hostage in the attacks. Like the vast majority of the 30,000 foreign farm laborers in ...