Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi is the 9th hottest place on the planet, according to Washington Post’s Foreign Policy magazine. But that has not stopped it from also being Israel’s largest producer of dates. Kibbutzniks have cultivated 18,000 palm trees in temperatures reaching over 50 degrees centigrade.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/agricultural-kibbutz-9th-hottest-place-on-the-planet/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/05/the_10_hottest_places_on_earth?page=0,8