Fruitfull Commerce: The Citrus Trade in Israeli-German Relation

The project traces the citrus trade between Palestine/Israel and Germany from the 1920s to the 1980s. The study will identify several milestones in this economic relationship: its emergence, the 1933 Transfer Agreement, the boycott on Nazi Germany, the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1965 and its effect on the Israeli citrus export to Germany, and the reduction of trade following the entry of additional countries into the market. Central to the study will be the symbolic meaning of citrus fruits and the economic significance of commerce in them for the relations between the two countries.