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Multiple injured as severe weather causes tree collapses in Ashkelon, Bnei Brak

Police closed Highway 90 between Dragot Junction and the Dead Sea hotel district in both directions due to flooding and warned travelers of serious danger.

View of floods in the central city of Yavne, as storm Byron hits Israel, December 11, 2025
THE DOGWOOD TREEHOUSE.

A once-in-a-lifetime getaway among the treehouses of the Great Smoky Mountains

Members of a delegation fo 250 state legislators from 50 US states plant saplings at Park Ofakim after a ceremony by KKL-JNF.

US lawmakers from 50 states plant trees in city raided by Hamas on Oct. 7

 Melanie Shiraz is crowned at Miss Universe Israel 2025.

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Tu Bishvat: The creation of beautiful things

In the past, trees were sacred to many people, but only Judaism has a New Year for them, which falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (Tu Bishvat).

 Border policemen plant saplings for Tu Bishvat in the Arazim Valley near Jerusalem. Tu Bishvat falls on February 6 this year.

Tu Bishvat: Happy new year – if you're a tree

Tu Bishvat reminds us of our responsibility to the environment – that we should cry out against the enormity of the destruction of rain forests and the degradation of God’s world.

 PLANTING TREES in honor of Tu Bishvat.

Is tree planting in the Negev resuming despite tensions with Bedouins?

Last year, tree plantings caused clashes with the Bedouin population that lives in the area.

MK Itamar Ben-Gvir plant a tree outside the Bedouin village of al-Atrash in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 12, 2022.

Intensifying windthrow on the horizon as climate change fuels storms

Climate change exacerbates tropical storms. As a result of the more extreme winds associated with these events, more trees are uprooted. 

 An aerial view shows trees as the sun rises at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil October 26, 2022.

Study reveals shocking new evidence about early Micronesian humans

Settlement of Remote Oceania began about 3,000 years ago, supposedly coinciding with falling sea levels across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Mangrove tree at Bahowo Swamp, Manado, North Sulawesi.

Extensive reforestation of semi-arid areas won't moderate global warming - study

Surprising new Israeli research finds that afforestation in semi-dry places may even make global warming worse.

 The net climatic effect of afforestation of arid areas suitable for planting. In gray - arid areas that are not suitable for planting for various reasons (agricultural areas/urban areas/hot or dry or too cold areas). In red - high heating effect. Yellow - low heating effect. Green - low cooling eff

Does planting trees around playgrounds protect kids from air pollution?

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution has been linked with a range of health risks including cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological health.

An Israeli woman and a child sit at a playground near a kindergarten surrounded by concrete blast walls on the first day of the school year in Nahal Oz

Even modest climate change may lead to sweeping changes - study

“Our results spell problems for the health and diversity of future regional forests,” said lead author Peter Reich.

 Infrared lamps and soil heating cables warm an experimental forest plot at a University of Minnesota field site in northeastern Minnesota.

Jerusalem needs to save its trees

Too many questions have remained, without satisfying answers, regarding who is profiting when trees are cut down.

 ADMIRING A blossoming almond tree in the Judean Hills.