MOSHAV DEKEL, Israel – One group feeling a major impact from the October 7th Hamas attack is Israeli farmers.
While locals have jumped in to help, it’s not been enough. However, some American farmers have stepped up to the plow to bring much-needed skills to the fields.
Here on Moshav Dekel near Gaza, war prevented farmers from harvesting an eggplant crop.
Author Doug Hershey saw a need in the fields of the south.
Standing by the eggplants, he told CBN News, They should have been harvested; and, you know, November, December – and there were no workers. In a very literal sense, in Israel, the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few.”
Aner Agiv, the head of the moshav’s security and also a farmer, explained, “We didn’t have water for our crops. And in October, it was very hot. Then, after the water came back, the workers leave. We used to have foreign workers from Thailand.
That’s when Hershey stepped in to help by arranging trips for farmers to come here.
“I have a company called Ezra Adventures that is a travel company for small groups, but in Hebrew, Ezra or Ezra’ means help. When you have specific skills from the States that
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