13 Nov 2023 --- Israel’s renowned agri-tech sector is encountering business disruptions, labor shortages and investment uncertainty amid the escalating Israel-Hamas war. As the Israeli Defense Forces move deeper into Gaza in an attempt to eliminate Hamas following last month’s terrorist attacks in Israel, we speak to Israeli food innovation firms about the impacts of the conflict on their operations. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 civilian massacre, food tech start-ups, including Redefine Meat, Green Butcher, More Foods, YoEgg! Foods and Creative Pea, donated plant-based ingredients to a restaurant kitchen in Tel Aviv. The kitchen used the ingredients to produce hundreds of vegan meals to help feed the 400,000 soldiers and reservists mobilized to the front lines and half-million Israeli families forced to evacuate their homes.
