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Jordan to supply ‘shmitta’ produce

Jordan and Israel have signed an agricultural co-operation agreement ahead of the “shmitta” year. According to a biblical commandment, the Land of Israel must lay fallow every seven years. As a result, produce is bought from neighbouring Arab populations. Some farmers — including religious Zionists — symbolically “sell” land to a non-Jew for a year.

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