Israel Takes to Homegrown Pot as Wall Curbs Arab Hash

A few years back Israeli cannabis smokers grappled with the notion that their drug money often enriched the country’s foes. These days, they’re more likely to light up marijuana produced in Tel Aviv basements or villas outside Jerusalem than hashish smuggled in from abroad.

“Marijuana has quietly become the main product here,” said Daniel Nahum, a former paratrooper who first noticed the change when he began smelling pot in bohemian neighborhoods of Jaffa, an ancient port city south of Tel Aviv.