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Bedouin protesters and Israeli forces clash during a protest in the southern Israeli village of Sawe al-Atrash in the Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 13, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
January 13, 2022, 6:01 pm
Hundreds of Bedouins clash with police over controversial Negev tree planting
Demonstrators block highway; officers respond with tear gas, stun grenades; 3 hospitalized, 13 arrested during 3rd day of protests
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Tires are set on fire in the southern Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, January 12, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)
January 12, 2022, 10:31 pm
Cops, rioters clash for 2nd straight night in protests against Negev tree planting
12 arrested in Bedouin towns as unrest continues despite promised deal; Ra’am’s Abbas denounces violence, says his party ‘suffers every day to be partners in the coalition’
By ToI Staff
Israeli police officers guard outside the Bedouin village of Mulada, in the Negev on January 12, 2022. (Flash90)
January 12, 2022, 6:30 pm
JNF finishes planting on disputed Negev lands as state seeks compromise with Bedouin
Opposition MKs advance legislation to embarrass coalition as Ra’am boycott of votes remains in place; minister says sides will meet Thursday in effort to strike deal
By ToI Staff
Israeli police detain a man as Bedouins protest in the Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 12, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
January 12, 2022, 1:15 pm
11 arrested in clashes as Negev tree-planting resumes, then pauses in climbdown
Working to ease coalition crisis, minister brokers temporary deal to halt forestation program pending negotiations
By ToI Staff
Permaculture and shmitta expert and teacher Talia Schneider (far left) with some students in the garden, before the earth's sabbatical began on Rosh Hashanah 2021. (Courtesy: Talia Schneider)
September 29, 2021, 3:07 pm
Gardeners give land a sabbatical, as composting (and other activities) continue
Shmitta, a year of rest for earth, arrived with Jewish New Year, along with opportunities for learning about planet Earth, say permaculturists
By Jessica Steinberg
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, via JTA)
September 27, 2021, 2:12 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 27 – Behind the scenes of the Iron Dome vote
US correspondent Jacob Magid on Thursday’s vote and Bennett’s upcoming Monday speech to the Jewish Federations, and Jessica Steinberg on shmitta customs this year
By ToI Staff
The Daily Briefing
July 15, 2021, 2:54 pm
Daily Briefing July 15 – How odd couple Bennett-Lapid are settling into marriage
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky smells cannabis leaves in 2016 (YouTube); Israeli medical cannabis growing operations. (Courtesy Israeli Medical Cannabis Agency)
July 9, 2021, 3:18 pm
As Israel’s biblical farming sabbatical nears, medical cannabis is budding issue
Shmita, the divinely commanded halt to agricultural work in the Holy Land every 7th year, starts again in September. What does this mean for religious users of locally grown pot?
By Yaakov Schwartz
Avishai Himelfarb, the founder and director of Leshomra, checks a watering system at a school garden in Modiin Ilit on March 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2017, 6:21 am
Ultra-Orthodox kids grow a green thumb in ‘mitzvah’ gardens
Leshomra group brings awareness of the environment to determinedly urban Haredi schools and community centers
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: Rachel Freund is the herdswoman at Freund's Dairy Farm in East Canaan, Connecticut. (Courtesy Cabot Creamery)
June 21, 2016, 5:52 am
In a yiddische green acres, Old McDovid has a farm, E-I-E-I-Oy
Ancient Torah principles and a desire to reconnect to the land are bringing young Jews back to farming in droves
By Cathryn J. Prince
Tikvah Wiener
March 12, 2016, 10:44 am
Tikvah Wiener
Creating Shmita
On the need to make time for an inner life says instead of letting external pressures define who you are
Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)
September 25, 2015, 11:34 am
As Israel’s groves lie fallow, Morocco captures etrog market
With Moroccan citrons lining international shelves, a look at the country’s long tradition of interfaith cooperation in bringing the fruits to a sukkah near you
By Ben Sales
A man holding an etrog in Morocco. (Ben Sales/JTA)
September 25, 2015, 11:30 am
A trek into Morocco’s wild Atlas mountains — for etrogs
A writer on a mission faces a long, perilous drop before finding success, and an unlikely kinship with a man named Mohammed
By Ben Sales
The solar field atop the buildings in the Knesset compound. (Courtesy)
April 8, 2015, 8:04 am
MKs may turn the air blue, but Knesset is Earth’s greenest parliament
With solar roofs, recycled paper, auto-close computers and air conditioners, NIS 7 million energy-saving project producing a more sustainable legislature
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Palestinians wait at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel, July 13, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 15, 2015, 6:43 pm
Israel eases entry criteria for West Bank Palestinians
Men over 55 can now enter Israel with no permit; married laborers 22 and above are eligible to apply
By Elhanan Miller
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