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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Israeli trees

Dr. Sarah Sallon, director of the Louis Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, with 'Sheba' in 2010. (Guy Eisner)
September 18, 2024, 4:29 pm
Tree grown from ancient mystery seed found in cave could be source of biblical balm
Identified as species of Commiphora, part of the frankincense and myrrh family, plant lacks fragrance but medical compound suggests possible link with Bible’s ‘tsori’
By Sue Surkes
Planting trees is one way to offset carbon emisssions. Pictured is part of the Menachem Begin Park, Tel Aviv, named after former Israeli PM Menahem Begin, May 1 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 4, 2023, 5:46 am
How the ancient Jewish ‘new year for trees’ became an Israeli celebration of nature
Jews around the world will this week celebrate Tu Bishvat, a holiday that has gained particular significance in the Jewish state in marking the people’s bond to the land
By Shay Rabineau
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
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
Israelis ride their bicycles on Rothschild Boulevard, in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 23, 2022, 8:34 pm
Government agrees to plant 450,000 urban trees to help counter rising heat
PM, ministers present plan to cabinet after year’s work by inter-ministerial committee; trees to be planted along 30,000 km of roads
By Sue Surkes
Israeli police detain a man as Bedouins protest in the southern Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 12, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
January 12, 2022, 6:04 pm
Why tree planting in the Negev sparked protests, riots and a coalition crisis
In JNF forests, Bedouin see ‘soft expulsion,’ environmentalists see a key ecological interest, and right-wing politicians see a weapon against ‘illegal squatters’
By Aaron Boxerman
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
An olive tree surrounded by spring blooms in the Galilee, northern Israel, February 10, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 28, 2021, 6:10 pm
Olive voted as national tree to mark Tu Bishvat
With arbor ardor running high, tens of thousands of Israelis choose symbol of peace in KKL-JNF survey, helping it beat out Tabor, palm and lowly fig
By Sue Surkes
Prof. Sol Green with the certificate from the Keren Kayamet LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund honoring him on his 99th birthday with the planting of 100 trees in his name, July 15, 2020, Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
August 18, 2020, 12:23 pm
100 trees planted in Israel in honor of a mentor’s 99th
For his July birthday, Prof. Sol Green, who founded YU and Bar-Ilan University’s social work departments, is gifted a leafy donation to KKL-JNF
By Anat Peled
Several species of trees line Ben Gurion Boulevard. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
February 9, 2020, 10:42 pm
Trees in Israel poorly protected, says new report issued for Tu Bishvat
In run-up to Monday’s national tree planting holiday, Knesset study shows 40,000 licenses granted to uproot 376,000 trees over six years — most to make way for building
By Sue Surkes
Jay Shofet
December 6, 2016, 1:14 pm
Jay Shofet
Plant trees in Israel now? Baaad idea
The rush to replant forests risks lasting harm to the natural ecosystem; better to faciliate healthy, diverse regrowth
Flames from a massive forest fire in Haifa still burning on November 25, 2016. The massive fires in the city a day earlier led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
November 30, 2016, 1:38 pm
Ecologists advise Israelis to resist tree-planting after fires
Burnt forests and woodlands should be left alone to rejuvenate naturally, experts say
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Crocus flowers dot the grounds of the Kommemiyut Forest. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 24, 2016, 12:00 pm
Figs, olives, almonds and more: Exploring Israel’s Biblical foliage
An abandoned quarry gave rise to the Kommemiyut Forest, where visitors can see the breadth of Israeli flora and learn some historical lessons on the way
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The sole huge, aging eucalyptus tree on the main street of Jerusalem's Bukharim neighborhood (Shmuel Bar-Am)
January 25, 2016, 1:25 pm
Get to the roots of Israel’s historic trees
A Tu Bishvat tour of some of the country’s stalwart, storied specimens
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
A lemon-scented eucalyptus tree towers over a quiet street in Petah Tikva, one of only a few of this species of eucalyptus in Israel. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
January 23, 2016, 6:57 am
Trees rooted in Tel Aviv’s history
In honor of Tu Bishvat, a tree historian highlights the top four historical trees in the Gush Dan region
By Melanie Lidman
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