How do you like your fish? Pumped up with a strong chemical cleaner called STTP (sodium trippolyphosphate), or without?
Despite it being an important fish producing nation with active fish farms, on land and at sea, two-thirds of the frozen fish sold in Israel is imported from China.
Most Israelis complain that frozen fish is tasteless, but pick up a bagful of fillets for convenience all the same. We are resigned to paying for the 20 percent of water stated on the package – an ice covering to protect the fish, we’re told.
But until last January, the Israeli consumer didn’t know that they paying for much more water than that. Water that’s been forced into the flesh of the fish by a chemical process. That makes it heavier. And the importers richer.
Aerofarms’ stackable vertical farm uses mist to grow crops in areas where land is non-arable, like in the United Arab Emirates. 
An ode to the earthworm: An earthworm farmer in Israel praises the beauty of the earthworm. Time to grow your own?
Quick, name the scarcest natural resources in Israel. I’m sure that “land” and “water” would feature prominently in most people’s answers.
Built on the profits of oil, should Masdar hold the mantle of energy leadership for the world? Yosef asks. 