Israeli scientist Ellen Graber has spent years researching ways to save chocolate crops from climate change. But with the government slashing spending to fund the war in Gaza, her project is one of hundreds now hanging in the balance.
Graber’s research had already been hit by the war — she had to abandon her cacao plants when the area where they were grown was evacuated after the October 7 Hamas attack.
They survived weeks of drought-like conditions in a greenhouse.
But the state-funded Volcani Institute where she works is now facing huge budget cuts.
