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The reason, as explained to me in detail by our top ecologists at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, is twofold. First, the destructive nature of the tree-planting process itself ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...

HAIFA, Israel (JTA) — 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 ...

The ritual most associated with the holiday these days is tree-planting in Israel, which, alas, is actually harming Israel’s environment and biodiversity. Is Planting Trees Really Good for the ...

Israel concluded its forestation work planting trees on disputed land in the Negev Desert on Wednesday after local Arab Bedouins protested because they believed it was an attempt by the government ...

“The area of Israel has been overused for millennia. The local natural woods had been severely suppressed for centuries before JNF began planting trees,” he told JTA. The planted ...

But it has now become so widespread in Israel and Palestine that many environmentalists ... and displaced millions more — view these tree-planting projects as another weapon used by colonists ...

“Growing plants and keeping Israel green is both a science and an art” says the website of the organization Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael. “KKL's three tree and plant nurseries, which are located ...

The reason, as explained to me in detail by our top ecologists at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, is twofold. First, the destructive nature of the tree-planting process itself ...

When I was a child in Hebrew school in the early 2000s, and our teachers would offer us the opportunity to “plant a tree in Israel” on Tu B’Shvat, I was thrilled. However, I had no idea ...