How to feed a Nation? Ancient cities were designed to be adjacent to centres for growing, supplying and consumption of food. Today, economic and political interests drive us further and further away from our food sources. In the last two decades, Israeli fruit and vegetable consumption has decreased by about 50%, in direct contrast to the exponential increase of the fruit and vegetable price index. Simultaneously, the Tel Aviv wholesale market was moved to a temporary location in Tzrifin. Twenty years later, and nothing has changed. Even in regional and national plans, there is hardly any reference to the planning of food infrastructures in Israel. ‘Banana Republic’ offers a social, nutritional and spatial examination of the supply chain in Israel and proposes an architectural and strategic plan to optimise the consumption of fruit and vegetable in Israel.