But Lev-Ari won’t go into detail. The technology is patented in Israel and is close to being patented in Europe, he tells ISRAEL21c. Mill owners in Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal, among Europe’s ...

Israel built the barrier two decades ago ... At a local olive cooperative, olive press owner Saad Awwad is sitting out in front of the facility on an old bus seat propped against the wall.

“Olive trees grow in the wild in the land of Israel, but they do not grow in the Jordan Valley,” she says. “This means that someone brought them there intentionally – took the knowledge ...

But with Israel’s latest war on Gaza ... friends were supposed to pick them and sell them in the market or press them in olive mill machines,” he says. He also has seasonal crops in greenhouses.