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A satellite image of vegetation cover developed by Israeli universities for the KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund in late 2025. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2025, 10:43 pm
Israeli universities develop satellite tool to survey Mediterranean vegetation cover
Jewish National Fund says that combined with field surveys every 5 years, new tool can shorten data-collection times and improve accuracy
By Sue Surkes
From left: Gilad Ostrovsky, chief forester and forestry department director at KKL-JNF, Chanan Zoref, recently retired director of the Judean Mountains District, and Shani Rohatyn-Blitz, the forestry department's coordinator of research and international relations, April 16, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
June 5, 2024, 12:38 pm
KKL-JNF moves from massive planting to target-driven, sustainable management
Policy is ‘to ask not where we can plant, but if there is a reason to plant,’ says former official, as 103-year-old organization adapts to climate change, protects ecosystems
By Sue Surkes
Ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Third from left is Israel Talpaz, cofounder and CEO of SeeTree, April 28, 2023. (NYSE)
May 12, 2023, 10:39 pm
Company that offers farmers intel on trees adapts tech to measure carbon absorption
Tel Aviv-based SeeTree partners with US afforestation company GreenTrees to develop machine-learning-based approach to calculating carbon sequestration for carbon credit market
By Sue Surkes
Planting tree saplings at Aman, a rehabilitation center for women experiencing mental crises following sexual violenceת December 2020. (Courtesy, Venatata)
December 22, 2022, 1:54 am
Non-profit aims to bind society to natural world by planting 100,000 city trees
‘Venatata,’ currently running Tu B’Shvat campaign, has marshaled 15,000 volunteers, created gardens in 70 institutions for people with special needs
By Sue Surkes
Jason Sherman wanders through an Israeli pine forest in search of his tree, as seen in 'My Tree' documentary film. (John Minh Tran)
October 2, 2022, 1:44 am
In search of ‘his’ tree in Israel, a Canadian filmmaker unearths unsettling issues
After learning a sapling planted through JNF for his bar mitzvah is in a forest where once stood a Palestinian village, Jason Sherman asks himself if he is complicit in a cover-up
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Chaco landscape in South America. (Valerio Pillar, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
September 28, 2022, 9:39 pm
Planting trees in drylands unlikely to curb global warming, Israeli study shows
Researchers find that while forests planted on arid lands reduce heat by absorbing carbon, those gains are often lost to heat radiation caused by the so-called albedo effects
By Sue Surkes
The KKL-JNF's Yatir Forest in southern Israel's Negev. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 12, 2022, 6:38 am
With planted forests threatened by development, KKL plans to root protections in law
Bringing a leading planner on board, organization seeks to preserve trees and expand woodland countrywide, including by refining the very definition of forest
By Sue Surkes
A brush fire west of Jerusalem, August 15, 2021. (Ariel Kedem/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
May 18, 2022, 4:29 am
Fire chief says Jerusalem-area towns fiddling as surrounding woods set to burn again
As the nation girds for fire season, communities in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council threatened by a large blaze last year are being accused of ignoring advice to avoid a repeat
By Sue Surkes
High-voltage pylons erected in Hulda Forest in the 1990s, alongside which an additional line of pylons and cables are to be put up. (Gezer Regional Council)
February 20, 2022, 4:50 pm
Electric company plans high-voltage cable, pylons in Israel’s oldest planted forest
Pylon plan will see felling of hundreds of trees, some aged over a century, in Hulda Forest, planted in 1907 in memory of Herzl; cables to bring renewable energy to center
By Sue Surkes
Old structures from the original kibbutz in this photo taken along the historic Neve Ilan Forest walk. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
January 15, 2022, 9:18 am
Ancient and not-so-ancient history meet in the blossoming Neve Ilan Forest
Take a walk in the lush hills just outside Jerusalem, where structures of a kibbutz from pre-state Israel and an ancient Hasmonean fortress sit together among the wildflowers
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, November 25, 2019. (Leo Correa/AP)
November 2, 2021, 7:41 am
COP26 leaders to pledge 2030 target for end to deforestation
UK Prime Minister Johnson to warn forests are essential for survival, but campaigners want action sooner to save the planet’s lungs
By Jitendra Joshi and Patrick Galey
An ancient tree along the Betzet Stream in the Western Galilee, northern Israel. (CarmelH1, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
September 2, 2021, 12:45 pm
Israeli trees doing well, according to global assessment of 58,497 world species
Globally, 30% of trees threatened with extinction. Most of Israel’s 62 species classed are as being ‘of least concern’ with just one categorized as endangered
By Sue Surkes
The charred corpse of a Mediterranean chameleon in the Jerusalem Hills, on August 17, 2021. (Yaniv Cohen, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 18, 2021, 5:03 am
Ecologists worry over ecosystem’s recovery after huge Jerusalem-area blaze
Hundreds of thousands of small animals feared burned to death, with massive damage to fungi and insects, the basis of the web of life
By Sue Surkes
In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, a floating dock sits on the lakebed of the Suesca lagoon, in Suesca, Colombia (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
August 9, 2021, 12:46 pm
Humanity almost entirely to blame for hotter Earth: The key UN report findings
With dire warning over the state of the planet, intergovernmental panel says global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared
By Marlowe HOOD and Patrick Galey
A photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 24, 2020, shows soldiers in the West Bank detaining a suspect in the suspected murder of Israeli woman Esther Horgen. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 24, 2020, 3:46 pm
Palestinian arrested in suspected terrorist killing of Israeli mother of six
TV network says man confesses, gives details on attack; reports indicate he is a released security prisoner; security forces also detain several potential accomplices
By Aaron Boxerman
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