This year, Israeli honey is made of ‘blood, sweat and tears’ Beekeepers and other apiculture professionals pulled off a major effort to rehabilitate the iconic local industry in time for Rosh Hashanah. Canaan Lidor Oct. 2, 2024
Beekeepers losing hundreds of hives to ‘agricultural terror’ Farmer Yinon Arkin alone lost 20 of the hives he maintains at Beit Guvrin in southern Israel to vandals • Palestinians chop up the honeycomb and smuggle it back, he claims • “The government doesn't know how serious the issue is,” says Arkin. Nikki Guttman Feb. 6, 2019
Fire kites sting Negev honey farms just before Rosh Hashanah In addition to the bees themselves being scorched by aerial attacks of flammable kites and balloons launched from Gaza, when the fields are burnt then any remaining bees cannot produce honey because there are no flowers on which to graze. Maayan Hoffman Aug. 2, 2018