Hiking the Holy Land: Biblical secrets in Yatir Forest

In Israel, biblical history isn’t locked away in museums – it’s just there, scattered across the hillsides, waiting for ...
Yahoo

With temperatures and tensions soaring, forests are burning in Israel and Lebanon

It was only 10 a.m., but it had already been a long day for the firefighters in these borderlands of southern Lebanon. They had barely finished containing a 130-acre forest fire when a call came in at ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

War in North Leaves Deep Scar on Israel’s Forests and Wildlife

Whenever this war with Hezbollah ends and the people of northern Israel finally return to their homes, they’ll be going back to more than empty streets, freshly dug gravesites and a beefed-up military ...
Irish Examiner on MSN

How Éamon de Valera came to be honoured with a forest in Israel — and why it’s now forgotten

A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli ...
The Jewish Exponent

Invasive Species, Protests and Forest Fires: How Planting a Tree in Israel Became Controversial

HAIFA, Israel — 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 than any other ...
Jewish Journal

Israel’s Forests Give Shelter to Country’s Most Endangered Plants

Israel is known for having performed one of the world’s most extensive tree-planting endeavors between the 1950s and 70s, in an effort to make the region more inhabitable. What most people don’t know ...