Israeli farmers revive tequila project cut short by Oct 7 attack

Israeli farmers whose dream of producing tequila was cut short by Hamas’s October 7 attack have returned to work along the Gaza border, ploughing fields and sowing seeds to bring their land back to life.

With artillery fire and explosions booming in the distance, businessman Aviel Leitner and farmer Eran Braverman inspected their field of blue agave, hoping they would one day soon produce the country’s first-ever batch of tequila.

Planted prior to the war sparked by the unprecedented October…