Cease-Fire Allows for Harvest in Israeli and Lebanese Vineyards

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Jacob Gaffney
Issue: November 30, 2006

In northern Israel and Lebanon, vineyard and winery workers were able to complete the 2006 harvest—though for a while it seemed like an impossible task. The two countries' wine industries shut down July 12, when their vineyards became battlegrounds in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.