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Farm work near the Gaza Strip is perilous, with fewer bomb shelters than the kibbutzim or moshavim where most of Israel’s border population resides.

Based on a moshav, or collective farm, in central Israel, Mr Sade is the founder of tech firm BloomX.

The book was animated by stories his grandmother had told him about her life on a moshav, or cooperative farming community, in the decades before Israel became an independent state.

In 1968 he traveled to Israel to study the moshav, or collective farm, movement.

The moshav provides 7% of all the eggs consumed in Israel.