Agriculture

Aaronsohn, Aaron. Agricultural and Botanical Explorations in Palestine. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.

Abarbanel, Jay S. The Co-operative Farmer and the Welfare State: Economic Change in an Israeli Moshav. With a Foreword by Max Gluckman. Manchester: UP, 1974.

Arian, Alan and Assaf Razin. Israel: A Developing Society. Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1980.

Auhagen, Hubert. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Landesnatur und der Lanwirtschaft Syriens. Berlin, 1907.

Audit Union of the Workers Agricultural Cooperative Societies Ltd. The Palestine Agricultural Economy Under War Conditions, Tel Aviv, 1944.

Avner, Uzi. “Desert Farming in the Southern ‘Araba Valley, Israel, 2nd Century BCE to 11th Century CE.” Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change, edited by Andreas G. Heiss et al., 3, Oxbow Books, Oxford; Philadelphia, (2016): 19–36. 

Becker, Nir. Water Policy in Israel: Context, Issues and Options. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013.

Bein, Alex. The Return to the Soil. Jerusalem, 1952.

Ben-Gal, Alon. “Sustainable Water Supply for Agriculture in Israel.” Water Wisdom: Preparing the Groundwork for Cooperative and Sustainable Water Management in the Middle East, edited by Alon Tal and Alfred Abed Rabbo, Rutgers University Press, (2010): 211–223. 

Ben-Porat, Amir. Divided We Stand: Class Structure in Israel from 1948 to the 1980s. New York, NY: Greenwood, 1989.

Bonne, Alfred. Palästina Land und Wirtschaft. Berlin, 1935.

Borowski, Oded. Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1998.

Borowski, Oded. Agriculture in Iron Age Israel. Warsaw, ID: Eisenbrauns, 1987.

Cook, O. F. Wild Wheat in Palestine. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913.

Eisentadt, Shmuel N. The Absorption of Immigrants: A Comparative Study Based Mainly on the Jewish Community in Palestine and the State of Israel. London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1954.

Endres, Franz Carl. Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung Palästinas als Teiles der Turkei. Berlin, 1918.

Ettinger, Jacob. Emek Jezreel, a Flourishing District. Jerusalem, 1926.

Ettinger, Jacob. Konkreter Vorschlag für landwirtschaftliche Kolonisation. Jerusalem, 1921.

Gavron, Daniel. The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Glenk, Helmut, et al. From Desert Sands to Golden Oranges: The History of the German Templer Settlement of Sarona in Palestine 1871-1947: Sarona Is Known Today as Hakirya in the Heart of Tel Aviv, Israel. Bloomington, ID: Trafford, 2005.

Gorny, Yosef. Zionism and the Arabs 1882-1948, A Study in Ideology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Granott (Granovksy) Abraham. The Land System in Palestine: History and Structures. London, 1952.

Halayqa, Issam K. H.. Traditional Agricultural and Domestic Tools in Palestinian Arabic: An Ethnographic and Lexical Study. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014.

Halperin, Haim. Changing Patterns in Israel Agriculture. London: Routledge, 1957.

Hopkins, David C. The Highlands of Canaan: Agriculture Life in the Early Iron Age. Vol. 3. London, UK: Burns & Oates, 1985.

Kaplan, Eran, Derek Jonathan Penslar and David Sorkin. The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2011.

Karsh, Efraim. Israel: The First Hundred Years. London, UK: Frank Cass, 2004.

Khalaf, Issa. Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration, 1939-1948. Albany, NY: State University of New York, (1991): 14-37.

Kimmerling, Baruch, and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Krämer, Gudrun. A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Marx, Emmanuel. Bedouin in the Negev. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1967.

Metzer, Jacob. The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Migdal, Joel S. Palestinian Society and Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pres, 2016.

Morris, Benny. Making Israel. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2007.

Near, Henry. The Kibbutz Movement: A History: Volume 1: Origins and Growth, 1909-1939. Liverpool, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008.

Near, Henry. The Kibbutz Movement: A History: Volume 2: Crisis and Achievement, 1939-1995. Liverpool, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008.

Orenstein, Daniel E., et al., editors. Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Review of Agricultural Policies: Israel. Paris: OECD, 2010.

Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies. Vol. 2, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1947.

Penslar, Derek J. Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, Indiana University Press, 1991.

Rivlin, Paul. The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UK, 2011.

Rosen, David, et al. “Modern Agriculture and the Environment: Proceedings of an International Conference, Held in Rehovot, Israel, 2–6 October 1994” Modern Agriculture and the Environment: Proceedings of an International Conference, Held in Rehovot, Israel, 2–6 October 1994.

Ruppin, Arthur. The Agricultural Colonisation of the Zionist Organization in Palestine. London, UK: Martin Hopkinson and Company Ltd., 1926.

Schwartz, Moshe, and Alexander Paul Hare. Foreign experts and unsustainable development: transferring Israeli technology to Zambia, Nigeria and Nepal. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2000.

Schwartz, Moshe, Susan H. Lees, and Gideon M. Kressel. Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.

Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.

Shulman, Leon. Zur türkischen Agrarfrage Palästina und die Fellachenwirtschaft. Weimar, 1916.

Siegel, Seth M. Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-starved World. New York: Thomas Dunne , an Imprint of St. Martin’s, 2017.

Singer, Arieh. The Soils of Israel. New York: Springer, 2007.

Smith, Barbara. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine British Economic Policy, 1920-1929. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Stein, Kenneth W. The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Tal, Alon. All the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present. New Haven: Yale UP, 2013.

Weitz, R., and A. Rokach. Agricultural Development Planning and Implementation: Israel Case Study. New York: Springer Verlag, 2014.

Wolffsohn, Michael.  Israel, Polity, Society and Economy, 1882-1986, London, UK: Humanities Press, 1987.

Yiftachel, Oren. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Zeitoun, Mark. Power and Water in The Middle East: The Hidden Politics of The Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict. New York, NY: IB Tauris, 2008.

Adams, Frank. “Palestine Agriculture.” In Harry Vitteles and Khalil Totah (eds.) The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science (1932): 72-83.

Alon-Mozes, Tal. “Landscape Architecture and Agriculture: Common Seeds and Diverging Sprigs in Israeli Practice.” Landscape Journal, 28: 2 (2009): 166-180.

Atran, Scott. “Hamula Organisation and Masha’a Tenure in Palestine,” Man, New Series, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 21:2 (June 1986) 271-295.

Avner, V. “Ancient agricultural settlement and religion in the Uvda Valley in southern Israel.” The Biblical Archaeologist, 53.3 (1990): 125-141.

Ben-Dror, Giora, and Michael Sofer. “Aspects of Weakening Cooperation in the Israeli Moshav.” Journal of Rural Cooperation, 38:2 (2010): 156-172.

Berck, Peter, and Jonathan Lipow. “Real and Ideal Water Rights: The Prospects for Water-Rights Reform in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.” Resource and Energy Economics, 16:4 (1994): 287-301.

Buheiry, Marwan R. “The Agricultural Exports of Southern Palestine, 1885-1914.” Journal of Palestine Studies, 10.4 (1981): 61-81.

Camp, C. R. “Subsurface drip irrigation: A Review.” Transactions of the ASAE, 41:5 (1998): 1353.

Castro, R.E “Economic Geography of Palestine,” Economic Geography, 13:3 (1937) 235-259.

Clawson, Marion. “Israel Agriculture in Recent Years.” Agricultural History, 29:2 (1955): 49–65.

Cohen, Asher, and Bernard Susser. “The “Sabbatical” Year in Israeli Politics: An Intra-Religious and Religious-Secular Conflict from the Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Centuries.” Journal of Church and State, 52:3 (2010): 454-475.

Cohen, Ron, et al. “Introducing Grafted Cucurbits to Modern Agriculture: The Israeli Experience.” Plant Disease 91:8 (2007): 916-923.

Dudeen, B. “The Soils of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) Current Status and Future Perspectives.” CIHEAM, Options Méditerranéennes, (2001): 203–225.

Dussey, Robert. “The State of Israel: A Partner in the Development of the African Continent.” Jewish Political Studies Review, 28:3-4 (2017): 25–29.

Dvoskin, Dan. “Energy-Dependent Agriculture in Israel.” Energy in Agriculture, 1 (1981): 131-139. 

Efroymson, C.W “Collective Agriculture in Israel,” Journal of Political Economy, 58:1 (February 1950): 30-46.

El-Eini, Roza I. M. “British Agricultural-Educational Institutions in Mandate Palestine and Their Impress on the Rural Landscape.” Middle Eastern Studies, 35:1 (1999): 98-114.

Elver, Hilal. “Palestinian/Israeli Water Conflict and Implementation of International Water Law Principles.” Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 28 (2004): 421.

Farnum, Rebecca L. “Water for Food: Feeding what? A Comparative Analysis of Egyptian and Israeli National Water Policies toward Water in Agricultural Production.” Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society, 2:1 (2014): 140-145.

Fedler, Jon. “Focus on Israel: Israel’s Agriculture in the 21st Century.” Mfa.gov.il, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2002.

Firestone, Ya’acov. “Crop-sharing Economics in Mandatory Palestine.” Middle Eastern Studies 11:1 (January 1975): 3-23.

Fleischer, Aliza, and Abraham Pizam. “Rural tourism in Israel.” Tourism Management, 18:6 (1997): 367-372.

Fleischer, Aliza, Ivgenia Lichtman, and Robert Mendelsohn. “Climate Change, Irrigation, and Israeli Agriculture: Will warming be harmful?” Ecological Economics, 65:3 (2008): 508-515.

Forman, G. “Settlement of the Title in the Galilee; Dowson’s Colonial Guiding Principles.” Israel Studies, 7:3 (2002): 61-83.

Freedman, Robert O. “The Changing Political Economy of Israel: From Agricultural Pioneers to the ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Middle East.” In Israel’s First Fifty Years (2000): 197-218.

Gal, Yoav, and Efrat Hadas. “Land Allocation: Agriculture Vs. Urban Development in Israel.” Land Use Policy, 31, (2013): 498-503.

Gleick, Peter H. “Water conflict chronology.” The World’s Water, 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (2009): 151-196.

Hadas, Efrat, and Yoav Gal. “Inter‐sector water allocation in Israel, 2011–2050: urban consumption versus farm usage.” Water and Environment Journal, 28:1 (2014): 63-71.

Haim, David; Schechter, Mordechai; and Pedro Berliner. “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Representative Field Crops in Israeli Agriculture: A Case Study of Wheat and Cotton.” Climatic Change, 86: 3 (2008): 425-440.

Kartin, Amnon. “Water Scarcity Problems in Israel.” GeoJournal, 53:3 (2001): 273-282.

Katzir, Raanan. “Advance agriculture in the desert: the Israeli case story.” Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, 7:1 (2015): 1-6.

Katzir, Raanan. “Sustainable Agriculture –The Israeli Experience.” Sustainable Agriculture Consulting Group, (2007): 1–7. 

Khalaf, Isa. “The Effect of Socioeconomic Change on Arab Societal Collapse in Mandate Palestine.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29:1 (February 1997): 93-112.

Klat, P. “Musha Holdings and Land Fragmentation in Syria” Middle East Economic Papers, 4: 12-23.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Ray Bollman. “Family Farm Dynamics in Canada and Israel: the Case of Farm Exits.” Agricultural Economics 21:1 (1999): 69-79.

Naaz, Farah. “Indo–Israel Cooperation: Agriculture, Trade and Culture.” Strategic Analysis, 23:6, (1999): 895–907.

Near, Henry. “The Kibbutz Movement in Historical Perspective.” Lecture at ECPR Workshop. Lecture at ECPR Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden Apr. 2004.

Perevolotsky, A. “Livestock grazing and biodiversity conservation in Mediterranean environments: the Israeli experience.” Options Méditerranéennes, Ser. A:67 (2006): 51-56.

Raveh, Eran, and Alon Ben-Gal. “Irrigation With Water Containing Salts: Evidence from a Macro-Data National Case Study in Israel.” Agricultural Water Management, 170 (2016): 176-179.

Raveh, Eran, and Alon Ben-Gal. “Leveraging Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture via Desalination: Evidence from a Macro-Data Case Study in Israel.” Sustainability, 10:4 (2018): 974-981.

Reynolds, Kyra. “Palestinian Agriculture and the Israeli Separation Barrier: the Mismatch of Biopolitics and Chronopolitics with the Environment and Human Survival.” International Journal of Environmental Studies, 72:2, (2014): 237–255.

Russell, Raymond. “The role of support organizations in the development of cooperatives in Israel.” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 12:3 (1991): 385-404.

Sadan, Ezra. “How Is Israel’s Economy Affected by the Security Situation?” Jerusalem Issue Brief, 4:11, 2004.

Sagie, Hila, and Uri Ramon. “Using an Agroecosystem Services Approach to Assess Tillage Methods: A Case Study in the Shikma Region.” Land Journal, 4.4 (2015): 938–956.

Sanchez-Diez, Angeles. “International Agreements and Trade in Agricultural Produce Between The European Union And Israel-Palestine.” Applied Econometrics and International Development, 16.2 (2016): 99-112.

Schölch, Alexander. “The Economic Development of Palestine, 1856-1882, Journal of Palestine Studies, (Spring 1981): 35-59.

Sezgin, Yüksel. “The Israeli Millet System: Examining Legal Pluralism Through Lenses of Nation-Building and Human Rights.” Israel Law Review, 43:3 (2010): 631-654.

Shahak, Yosepha, et al. “ColorNets: a new approach for light manipulation in fruit trees.” ACTA HORTICULTURAE, (2004): 609-616.

Shalhevet, Sarit; Haruvy, Nava; and Ishai Spharim. “Strategic Planning in Response to Global Environment Changes: The Case of Israeli Agriculture.” Journal of Financial Management & Analysis, 25: 2 (2012): 71-77.

Shapira, I., H. Sultan, and U. Shanas. “Agricultural farming alters predator–prey interactions in nearby natural habitats.” Animal Conservation, 11:1 (2008): 1-8.

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Shtull-Trauring, E., and N. Bernstein. “Virtual Water Flows and Water-Footprint of Agricultural Crop Production, Import and Export: A Case Study for Israel,” Science of the Total Environment, 622 (May 2018): 1438–47.

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Stavi, Ilan et al. “Ancient to Mid-Twentieth-Century Runoff Harvesting Agriculture in the Hyper-Arid Southern Israel,” Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20 (January 2018): 7652. 

Stein, Kenneth, “Legal Protection and Circumvention of Rights for Cultivators in Mandatory Palestine,” in Joel S. Migdal (ed.) Palestinian Society and Politics, Princeton University Press, (1980): 233-260. http://ismi.emory.edu/home/documents/stein-publications/poco.pdf

Kenneth Stein, “Palestine’s Rural Economy.” Studies in Zionism 8:1 (1987): 25-49. https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/siz87.pdf

Stein, Kenneth, “Rural Change and Peasant Destitution: Contributing Causes to the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939,” John Waterbury and Farhad Kazemi (eds.) Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East, Florida International University Press. (1991): 143-170. http://ismi.emory.edu/home/documents/stein-publications/website%20docs%202011-2004/website%20docs%202000%20and%20earlier/Peasants%20and%20Politics.pdf

Strickland, Claude F. “The Struggle for Land in Palestine.” Current History [published by the New York Times], 34 (April 1931): 45-49.

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Tal, Alon. “To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability.” Agricultural History, (2008): 228–257.

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Wexler, Anna. “Seeding Controversy: Did Israel Invent the Cherry Tomato?” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 16:2 (2016): 1-11.

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Yiftachel, Oren. “Territory as the kernel of the nation: space, time and nationalism in Israel/Palestine.” Geopolitics 7:2 (2002): 215-248.

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