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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund

An apartment block fitted with solar panels (but not storage) in the southern city of Beersheba, through the Sun for All initiative. (Yuval Pan)
In first, Tel Aviv apartment building turns to solar energy storage for emergency use
By Sue Surkes
Sunshine for Everyone helps lease rooftop to developers, allowing nine-story building to go off-grid and maintain electricity in common areas during power cuts
An apartment block fitted with solar panels (but not storage) in the southern city of Beersheba, through the Sun for All initiative. (Yuval Pan)
January 6, 2025, 7:35 am
In first, Tel Aviv apartment building turns to solar energy storage for emergency use
Sunshine for Everyone helps lease rooftop to developers, allowing nine-story building to go off-grid and maintain electricity in common areas during power cuts
By Sue Surkes
On a misty day, gray cranes feed on a field not yet sown just outside the Hula Lake Park in northern Israel, December 22, 2024. Alex Kolomoisky/KKL-JNF)
December 23, 2024, 7:09 pm
Pioneering KKL-JNF laser beam tech aims to keep wild cranes off farmers’ fields
First-of-its kind system in world uses cameras, lasers and AI without harming birds; it’s set to debut next year at newly reopened Hula Lake Park, where crane numbers are down due to war
By Sue Surkes
Participants hold up signs at the March for Israel rally organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on November 14, 2023, on the National Mall in Washington. (Daryl Perry)
December 7, 2024, 9:50 am
Huge post-October 7 giving boom from overseas brings hope to battered frontlines
With no shortage of organizations trying to help, big philanthropic bodies say they’re working in coordination, each filling a different role, while letting local communities lead
By Sue Surkes
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)
October 16, 2024, 3:25 pm
Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community
The tax authority’s revocation of charitable status for JNF Canada and others has reverberated inside and outside the country – though the motives behind it are disputed
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Back to the land: Young people learn farming skills through HaShomer HaChadash. (HaShomer HaChadash)
October 16, 2024, 7:32 am
Plans to ensure food security threatened by Treasury bid to slash agriculture funds
With war exposing need for food independence, report from HaShomer HaChadash aims to push state to develop strategy. But with growing deficit, Finance Ministry focuses on cuts
By Sue Surkes
An undated photo of a pair of eco-toilets at the IDF Nitzanim training base in southern Israel. (Guy Saly, Nature Defense Force)
October 13, 2024, 10:20 am
Army cleans up its act with eco-toilets
Following pilot project, officer in charge of environmental protection calls for wide adoption of eco-toilets where permanent facilities needed in open areas
By Sue Surkes
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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