Olives are a great ingredient you can add to so many meals or are delicious on their own. Find out everything you need to know about this Mediterranean fruit.

My fondness of olive oil harvesting and production has taught me many valuable lessons, but if there is one thing I’d like to impart above all else, it’s that whatever it is you do, you should ...

To mark the end of olive-picking season, celebrity chef Hussam Abbas offers his choicest olive recipes. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF DECEMBER 12, 2011 10:21 Manaish 521 (photo credit: Daniel Laila) ...

Hassna Hammad, 48, who was among those picking olives, said the agricultural work was her livelihood. "We aren't afraid, we're used to it," she said of the war.

Olive picking at Nadia Hussien's home in Beitunia on Oct. 20, 2024. (Bilal Moghrabi) Adnan Hussien picks olives with neighbors at his home in Beitunia, Palestine, Oct. 20, 2024.

The four women were harvesting the 15 dunams (1.5 hectares) and 150 olive trees that have been in the family since Saher’s great-grandfather came to Umm Safa.

Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, ... technological assistance must now reckon with the growing risk of wildfires, which burned more than 11,000 acres of olive orchards last year.

Normally, the olive-picking season is highly anticipated in Lebanon, and some people return each year to their native villages and fields just for the harvest. "Not everyone has the courage to come" ...