Trees

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.

Grapevine: Miss Jerusalem of vision


Parashat Terumah: The magnificent acacia tree

We note that as the acacia tree can be the keystone to certain ecosystems, the Torah is the keystone to the Jewish people.

 Tree (illustrative).

Israel to plant 450,000 trees in cities in effort to counter effects of climate change

The plan, which is predicted to cost about 2.25 billion shekels, or $716 million, will be carried out between now and 2040.

 A man walks on a tree-lined sidewalk near the Valley of the Cross park in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2018.

Letters to the Editor January 17, 2022: National pastime

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees: What is it and how is it celebrated?

Tu Bishvat, known as the New Year for the tree, will be marked this year from Sunday evening until Monday evening.

 Israeli kids plant trees for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in Haifa on February 9, 2017. Tu Bishvat is also called literally "New Year of the Trees." In contemporary Israel the day is celebrated as an ecological awareness day and trees are planted in celebration.

Tu Bishvat invites appreciation of trees and greenery in Israel - opinion

Jews who lived in the Old World often encountered constant gloom, never seeing green trees or even the sunlight.

 A KEREN KAYEMETH LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund tree-planting takes place in the Binyamin region on Tu Bishvat.

In honor of Tu Bishvat, new tree bill submitted to Knesset

MK Alon Tal: "Time to plant a new law – the best birthday present we can give the country’s forests and those that will yet be planted."

Palm trees grow at an R&D station in Israel's Arava region

How tree plantings almost toppled a coalition

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The Likud managed to sow the seeds of rebellion in Bennett’s government.

 POLICE OFFICERS detain a Bedouin man who was protesting tree planting by KKL-JNF outside the village of al-Atrash in the Negev, Wednesday.

How planting a tree in Israel became controversial

Increasingly, the JNF’s signature program has drawn vocal critics.

 PEOPLE PLANT trees at the Oz Vegaon nature preserve in Gush Etzion on the eve of Tu Bishvat last year.

Pandemic thoughts on Tu Bishvat - opinion

Nature, the Holiday of Trees' romantic hero, is the villain with which civilization is now at war.

Cranes fly amid blooming almond trees in an orchard near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. On Tu Bishvat we will, like the Psalmist, praise ‘the birds of the sky’ that ‘sing among the foliage.’

Negev crisis: Seeing the forest for the trees - editorial

On the one hand, Israel has every right to exert its sovereignty within its territory. On the other, Bedouins see the tree-planting on land they use for farming as part of a campaign to expel them.

 Bedouin women gesture as they stand by an Israeli policeman during a protest against forestation at the Negev desert village of Sawe al-Atrash, southern Israel