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A firefighting plane drops flame retardant while trying to extinguish a forest fire near Beit Shemesh, on May 2, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 2, 2025, 9:58 pm
Authorities say ‘no dramatic incidents’ after concern over renewed Jerusalem area fires
Fire service says ‘several smoke locations being monitored’ but that ‘everything is under full control’; blaze in Ramle subdued after several homes on edge of central city evacuated
By ToI Staff, Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian
The the damage caused from a massive wildfire in Latrun, May 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 1, 2025, 11:47 pm
Jerusalem hills wildfires under control after nearly 30 hours; no major injuries
PM blames conflagration on Palestinian incitement, but fire officials said to attribute fire to hiker negligence; president warns of climate change’s effects
By ToI Staff
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Devastation in Israel's north caused by Hezbollah rockets. (Credit: Raz Malka)
September 16, 2024, 8:10 pm
I’m from the North, and We’re Not Okay
Desperate residents from Israel’s north are in the U.S. to raise awareness about their region’s plight, fearing that decision-makers and the world have forgotten them.
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"Members of Elad Theater bring world class theatrical productions to Israel's Negev."
July 10, 2022, 8:15 pm
An Oasis of Theatrical Expression in the Desert
An all-encompassing festival of the arts in remote desert Israeli communities, unencumbered by conventional ‘big city’ thinking, attracts hundreds of families to explore a new life on the country’s frontier.
By Eli Shemesh
In this undated image provided by the Jewish National Fund-USA, Dr. Morton Mower and his wife, Toby, pose for a picture. Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients live longer and healthier, has died at age 89. (Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA via AP)
May 2, 2022, 3:20 am
Morton Mower, co-inventor of implantable defibrillator, dies at 89
In addition to saving lives of many, US cardiologist also hailed as a prominent Jewish philanthropist and friend of Israel, where he visited weeks before his death
By AP
Samuel Hayek, in jacket, meeting young musicians in Ashdod in January 2018. (Jewish National Fund-United Kingdom/via JTA)
From the WebJanuary 13, 2022, 11:01 pm
Charity Commission investigating JNF UK after chair’s comments on Muslims
Watchdog is ‘requesting information’ from the Israel charity and will consider if ‘regulatory action is required’ over Samuel Hayek’s remarks, Jewish News reports
View of the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem, November 29, 2016. Photo (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 21, 2020, 1:44 am
Hadassah, other groups delay right-wing takeover of World Zionist Congress
Legacy Jewish groups like Naamat, Maccabi, B’nai B’rith International, the Women’s International Zionist Organization and Emunah step in to delay contentious vote
By Ron Kampeas
Incendiary balloons being launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip in May 2018. (Screen capture: Quds news)
June 4, 2018, 4:55 pm
Beyond kites: ‘Fire balloons’ increasingly used to set southern Israel ablaze
Total of at least 17,500 dunams – nearly 7 square miles – of land burned as Palestinians repeatedly send airborne incendiary devices across border
By Judah Ari Gross
The Jewish National Fund collects money through donations in boxes that look like this. (Flickr Commons via JTA)
November 10, 2017, 5:03 am
Israel wants a big cut from the Jewish National Fund
Government advancing legislation to force organization to fund state-run national infrastructure projects
By Andrew Tobin
Israelis holding signs of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) take part in a Tu Bishvat tradition of planting trees in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Michmash, Wednesday, January 15, 2014. (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
January 19, 2017, 7:35 pm
State Comptroller slams bloated JNF, concerns of criminal activity
Government watchdog says organization’s operational arm has little government oversight, may have conflicts of interest
By ToI Staff
Russell F. Robinson
May 25, 2016, 4:00 pm
Russell F. Robinson
Giving the Galilee and Northern Israel What it Deserves
Based on their success transforming Southern Israel from a dusty landscape to a modern metropolis through Blueprint Negev, the Jewish National Fund has been developing Northern Israel as part of its ambitious Go North initiative with plans to revitalize the Galilee
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
Pioneers build a new settlement in 1949. (Courtesy KKL-JNF/Avraham Malovsky)
December 31, 2015, 7:50 pm
Even Herzl had a blue box: JNF celebrates 115 years
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901, after a scolding from Theodor Herzl
By Melanie Lidman
The kalaniyot, or anemones, blossom across southern Israel near the border with Gaza. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
February 19, 2015, 3:43 pm
The South is on red alert again — in a good way
Six months after war with Hamas, the anemones are blooming near the Gaza border, but small businesses, desperate for an influx of visitors at the Darom Adom festival, are battered by poor weather
By Melanie Lidman
Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper performs with his band, Herringbone, at a Jewish National Fund dinner in Toronto, Canada, December 2013. (YouTube screenshot)
January 17, 2014, 9:33 pm
Stephen Harper rocks out for Israel
At a JNF dinner last month, Canadian PM announced his upcoming trip to Israel and serenaded the crowd with his band
By Ben Harris
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