High hopes in Israel for 'super hero' cocoa

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Days after Israel's agriculture research center, the Volcani Institute, sent 140 cocoa plant seedlings to a facility in southern Israel to study how the tropical plant could be grown in dry conditions, the area came under attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. When researchers returned months later, they found 18 cocoa seedlings had survived the drought-like conditions. Arrthy Thayaparan has more.

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