Another time, I received half a container of meatballs in red sauce, which I transformed into a pizza topped with olives and roasted red peppers.

Rabbi Kogan's funeral is expected to take place at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Monday evening, after an Israeli religious organisation that collects remains of the dead for burial said a plane carrying his body had left the UAE.

A “revolt of the olives” emerged as a symbolic showdown in Selargius, a small municipality near Cagliari, where TERNA's expropriation and destruction of a farmer’s olive grove brought out an army of shovel-wielding supporters to plant new olive trees.

The breaking point came after Chanel released an antiaging product called Blue Serum, advertised as being made from ingredients from the blue zones: green coffee from Costa Rica, olives from Sardinia, and mastic from Greece.

On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank.