Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Students participating in a special wartime program run through Leket Israel with corporate partners in which students who spend at least 160 hours doing volunteer farmwork earn a yearlong academic scholarship.
Yariv Hagbi, a farmer whose family has been growing produce in the area of southern Israel near Gaza for generations, spent part of Oct. 7 fighting terrorists who broke into his family home in the town of Yakhini.
That Saturday, his brother, Yizhar Hagbi, and several other relatives were killed. Since then, the entire community of Yakhini has been displaced, but Hagbi stayed behind because he's determined to save the family farm - despite all the grief, shock and devastation.
"At a certain point, you have to get back to life," Hagbi said.
A range of produce grows at Hagbi's farm in Nir Moshe,...
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