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S ince the beginning of the Hezbollah attacks on Israel on October 8, approximately 20,000 dunams of forest area in the north have been destroyed due to enemy explosions. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael ...

BEIT OREN, Israel - Among the charred trees and layers of ash in Israel's scorched Carmel National Park, a stone marker near a blackened stand of pines honors American Jewish donors who gave money ...

Yatir Forest, Israel’s largest human-planted forest and the world’s largest planted forest in a sub-desert area, is now in danger of disappearing.

In recent years, the threat to Israel’s forests has been more severe than ever. During the recent war, hundreds of thousands of acres of forest and open land were burned.

Forests in Israel serve two primary purposes – acting as a rich ecological system and serving Israel’s residents as a recreational area that is free and open to the public throughout the year.

A large wildfire that broke out yesterday afternoon in the Jerusalem Mountains continues to rage this morning, more than 14 ...

More than 30 congregants from the Forest Hills Jewish Center recently went to Israel to engage directly in rebuilding, ...

For more than a century, planting trees in this mostly desert land has been an act of almost spiritual importance, starting with those who helped create the state of Israel. IE 11 is not supported.

HAIFA, Israel — Each year on Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating trees and plants, Lior Weitz and his wife take their two daughters to plant saplings of pine — the tree that more than any other ...

And now Rwanda is one of Israel’s strongest allies in the UN.” KKL-JNF, which has 45 partnering offices around the world, takes an active role at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), ...