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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund

A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)
August 12, 2024, 7:46 pm
Canada strips 2 pro-Israel charities of tax-free status, including ‘flagship’ JNF
Rare move comes after anti-Zionist Jewish group complained repeatedly about groups’ donations to IDF bases; JNF says tax authority ‘refused to enter into a dialogue with us’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Nefesh B'Nefesh staff at Translation Tuesdays (Credit: Nefesh B'Nefesh)
June 26, 2024, 3:01 pm
From Aliyah to integration: Nefesh B’Nefesh helps Olim thrive in Israeli society
Unable to understand an electric bill? Struggling to convert a driver’s license? No problem! Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) can help
By Aviva Gat
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
A swallowtail butterfly on a Salvia viridis plant. (Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
May 22, 2024, 4:56 pm
World Biodiversity Day report: Israel’s butterflies, birds, reptiles in serious decline
Israel’s habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation of natural resources and rising temperatures blamed in 2023 State of Nature review
By Sue Surkes
An aerial view of the Knesset showcasing the solar panels on its roof and on adjacent buildings. The panels will be able to produce up to a third of the Knesset's energy consumption. (Courtesy: Knesset)
May 5, 2024, 1:37 am
Bill to keep homeowners on ex-church land out of leaseholder limbo wins broad support
Jerusalemites unsure over future rights due to sale of plots say developer trying to push some apartment owners to buy out leases before Knesset cuffs ability to hike prices
By Sue Surkes
A dead crane in a flooded field in the Hula Valley. (Nadav Israeli, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
February 15, 2024, 7:29 pm
As avian flu rises in Hula Valley cranes, authorities spar over who collects carcasses
While Agriculture Ministry, Nature and Parks Authority argue, farmers see more crane corpses in fields; Hula reserve closed; fears that virus could spiral into epidemic, as in 2021
By Sue Surkes
Winners of the 2023 Climate Solutions Prize, awarded on January 25, 2024. From left: Prof. Yechezkel Kashin and Prof. Shanny Barath from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, northern Israel, Prof Brian Rosen from Tel Aviv University, and Prof. Menny Shalom from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel.
January 28, 2024, 2:58 pm
$1 million Climate Solutions Prize awarded to three groundbreaking technologies
Prize awarded by JNF Canada and KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund rewards work on sustainable building materials, green ammonia, and a replacement for lithium batteries
By Sue Surkes
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Credit: Yossi Ifergan KKL JNF Archive
January 25, 2024, 9:18 am
Planting Hope Amid Tragedy: Tu B’shvat at the Site of the Nova Massacre
KKL-JNF held a tree-planting event at the site of the massacre in Reim with families of the partygoers who perished in the massacre, as well as Nova survivors and their loved-ones.
Ela Bahat pours water over the place she and her husband planted a tree and tulips in memory of their 30-year-old son Dror, who was murdered on Oct. 7 in a cross-border attack by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival in Re'im, southern Israel, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, during an event where friends and relatives planted trees in memory of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
January 21, 2024, 11:21 pm
Grieving family members plant seedlings at site of Hamas’s Supernova massacre
Some 1,000 in total join JNF project, planting 200 seedlings at site of Oct. 7 rampage in Re’im; relatives hope to bring new life to scene of onslaught
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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January 11, 2024, 4:07 pm
Seeding the Next Generation of Heroines
On the three-month anniversary after October 7th, KKL-JNF inaugurated a memorial path of trees at the entrance to Ofakim Park that honors the women who risked their lives to save others.
Students hold up signs reading 'Welcome Nir Oz' in Kiryat Gat on January 2, 2024. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Kiryat Gat)
January 4, 2024, 5:15 pm
Survivors of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a desert oasis, move into Kiryat Gat apartment towers
Locals from the growing southern city greet the traumatized newcomers with fanfare and a steady trickle of acts of goodwill
By Canaan Lidor
Activists from the Rov Hair Jewish-Arab movement clean a shelter in Haifa, on October 12, 2023. (Rov Hair)
November 20, 2023, 9:05 am
In Haifa, bomb shelter cleanup action fosters unlikely Arab-Jewish partnerships
The push to prepare for possible Hezbollah rockets creates meeting spaces for hundreds of people from communities that rarely mix in Israel’s third-largest city
By Canaan Lidor
Cranes arrive at the Hula Lake Park in northern Israel, October 4, 2023. (Inbar Shlomit Rubin)
October 4, 2023, 11:56 pm
First cranes of fall season arrive at Hula Lake nature reserve
Some 90,000 cranes expected to pass through or winter at northern lake, joining flamingos, cormorants, pelicans, raptors and other bird species at popular tourist site
By Sue Surkes
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New Olim in the Nefesh B'Nefesh office (Credit: Yonit Schiller)
July 5, 2023, 1:33 pm
New Hebrew courses help Olim prepare for Aliyah
Moving to a new country has enough challenges without the language barrier. An intensive online Hebrew course gives Olim the tools they need to converse with confidence.
By Aviva Gat
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SalesClass Teachers. Credit: Nefesh Bnefesh
June 6, 2023, 10:47 am
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