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.

JANUARY 9, 2026|ByHODAYA RAN, YOAV ETIEL

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

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

Tucked into the woods just outside of the town of Gatlinburg, a gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this collection of treehouses lifts you into the trees for a warm mountain stay.

JANUARY 4, 2026|ByLAUREN GUMPORT

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

‘Each tree becomes a symbol of love for the land and of the profound connection that unites us,’ KKL-JNF World Chairwoman Ifat Ovadia-Luski said.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2025|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Melanie Shiraz is crowned at Miss Universe Israel 2025.

Grapevine: Miss Jerusalem of vision

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 2, 2025|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Celebrating trees and gardens in honor of Tu Bishvat season

This week the Jewish calendar marks the New Year for trees, Tu Bishvat. Beginning with the Mishna in Rosh Hashanah, the occasion has been turned by many communities into a fruit festival.

JANUARY 26, 2021ByRAYMOND APPLE

A WOMAN in Jerusalem takes part in a corona-era campaign by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority calling on people to join sightseeing tours and find comfort in tree hugging.

Just as my ancestors planted for me…Tu BiShvat 2021 with JNF-USA

Tu Bishvat became a day for planting trees, and in 1908, Jewish National Fund and the educational system officially adopted this practice.

JANUARY 23, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Tree planting event in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the Gaza Border

Tu Bishvat: For the first time ever, plant a tree via Zoom

Planting a tree in the Land of Israel has great meaning and creates a profound connection between the person planting the tree and the land.

JANUARY 21, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Tu Bishvat: Trees in Jerusalem & the Judean Hills

A census of Jerusalem trees undertaken seven years ago by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel reported that some 4,900 trees in the city that are at least a half-century old.

JANUARY 21, 2021ByDAVID GEFFEN

THE ANCIENT olive tree in Jerusalem’s Garden of Gethsemane.

Because of the trees - opinion

It is believed that sooner or later the number of MKs will grow from 120 to at least 140.

DECEMBER 27, 2020BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Trees and life

Trees play an important role throughout the Bible, beginning with the Garden of Eden and its tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and bad (Genesis 2:9).

DECEMBER 6, 2020ByMICHAEL M. COHEN

‘And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom’ (Genesis 32:4) Vayishlah, Genesis 32:4-36:43, is read on December 5.

Drones plant trees from the sky after US wildfires

Heatwaves and dry-lightning coincided with drier conditions that climate scientists blame on global warming.

DECEMBER 1, 2020ByREUTERS

A wind driven wildfire in the hills of Canyon Country north of Los Angeles, California

Hugging a tree in Israel to beat the coronavirus blues

At the park, about 15 km (nine miles) north of Tel Aviv, tree-huggers such as Barbara Grant heeded the advice during a tour arranged by the Authority.

JULY 13, 2020ByREUTERS