Palestinian workers in Israel replaced by workers from ... Thailand???

The beautiful moshav or communal farm at Netiv Haasara in southern Israel, right on the border with Gaza, is green, lush and fragrant with jasmine and orange blossom.

In the moshav's vast greenhouses they grow everything from cucumbers to coriander, peas to peppers.

The sounds and smells are pretty typical of Israel in springtime - except, that is, for the murmur of conversation in an unlikely language - Thai.

"Virtually all our workers here are Thai," says Roni Keidar who runs a seed production business on the moshav. More...

Don't miss:

1. Young, Jewish and Left...
2. Young Israelis demonstrate against the Gaza siege...
3. Why is Egypt destroying food meant for Gaza?
4. Gaza: No right to life...
5. Gaza: the destitute and the forgotten...