The recent fire in Israel’s Carmel Mountains has cast a spotlight on what trees are best suited for Israel’s varied regions. JTA’s Dina Kraft also reports on what’s already there ...

The largest known population of the ancient plants grows on fossilized sand ridges in the north and could prove helpful for ...

HULA VALLEY, Israel — The trees abutting the road leading to Biriya Forest, a nature preserve in northern Israel, at first resemble spruces turning autumnal shades of red, a sight reminiscent of ...

After hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns were either abandoned or forcibly depopulated during the 1948 war, when the state of Israel was created, JNF planted trees over the ruins of ...

Experts from key state and civil society organizations are joining forces to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel. The plants — many looking more like bushes, with tiny ...

JTA — The trees abutting the road leading to Biriya Forest, a nature preserve in northern Israel, at first resemble spruces turning autumnal shades of red, a sight reminiscent of landscapes in ...

The holiday of Tu B’Shvat is mentioned in the Mishna as the New Year of Trees (Rosh HaShanah, 1:1). The date is important in regard to the tithing of fruit in the Land of Israel, whereby ...

These trees offered the Jews some measure of "Tanchumah ... a soul that is rooted in Israel’s sacred beginnings and pointed toward the ultimate Redemption—a soul whose two feet stand on ...