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Israel is a desert, and water resources are scarce, but today it produces 20% more water than it needs. What can the world learn from Israel’s experience?

50 years after Israelis invented modern drip irrigation, they’re fine-tuning it to work better than ever for a world that faces food shortages.

To celebrate Israel's 64th birthday, ISRAEL21c brings you the country's top 64 innovations -- developments that are transforming and enriching lives across the planet.

2021 was Dancin’ Vineyards’ first full year of dry farming. They almost made it last year, but in the first week of September there was a heat spell and they needed to do a little drip dance to preven...

Netafim, which pioneered modern drip irrigation after joining forces with Polish-Israeli inventor Simcha Blass, says that cultivating rice by drip reduces heavy metal absorption and methane emissions to almost zero, cuts down on manual labor, and offers farmers 150% more yield. This is because while flooding is usually carried out to produce one annual cycle of rice, drip irrigation means that the same land can be used again, either for a second round of rice or for a different crop with a bigger financial return, such as onions or beans. For thousands of years, mainly in a bid to kill weeds,...