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Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hamas-hostages-work-in-africa-a56e288b?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
A Hamas Hostage's Work in Africa
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - More than 200 people remain captive in Gaza, probably including Israeli scientist Shoshan Haran, whose innovation in plant seeds has improved the lot of poor Africans, including many Muslims. Haran launched the nonprofit Fair Planet in 2011 to develop vegetable seeds for struggling African farmers. Fair Planet's seeds, it says, can triple crop yields, improve nutrition, and increase farmer profits by eightfold per plot. They are developed for Africa's soil and climate, and they produce vegetables with longer shelf lives that fetch higher prices. Over the past decade its seeds have nourished a million people in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda, while helping to pull tens of thousands of farmers out of poverty. Haran's only offense was being Jewish and living in Israel.