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The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests. In the 19th century and up to World War I, the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the ...
In 2021, The Jewish National Fund conducted a poll and with a 33% majority from the Israeli people, the olive tree was chosen as the new national tree of Israel. [105] [106] [107] Its branches are depicted on the Emblem of the State of Israel and the insignia of the Israel Defence Forces (Incl. The Military Rabbinate). [108]
The Jewish National Fund (JNF; Hebrew: קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael; previously הפאנד הלאומי , Ha Fund HaLeumi) is a non-profit organization [2] [3] founded in 1901 to buy land and encourage Jewish resettlement in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, subsequently Israel and ...
In the early years of the state, Jewish National Fund planted thousands of trees along the western edge of Jerusalem, creating a green belt. [1] The first tree of the Jerusalem Forest was planted in 1956 by the second President of Israel, Itzhak Ben-Zvi. At its peak, the area of the forest covered 4,700 dunams (470 hectares).
The Jewish National Fund is a philanthropic organization that supports "critical environmental and nation-building activities in Israel's north and south as it develops new communities in the ...
The Israel National Trail, marked in 1991 runs through the forest. Yatir forest is located on the trail south of Meitar and north of Arad. [citation needed] Yatir forest is the largest forest ever planted by the JNF, covering 30,000 dunums with over 4 million trees. [citation needed]
In the early 20th century, the Jewish National Fund devoted the day to planting eucalyptus trees to stop the plague of malaria in the Hula Valley; [23] today the Fund schedules major tree-planting events in large forests every Tu BiShvat. [16] Over a million Israelis take part in the Jewish National Fund's Tu BiShvat tree-planting activities. [24]
The first trees for the forest were planted in 1951. [2] The World B'nai Brith Jewish service organization financed a significant portion of the planting of the trees by the Jewish National Fund. [3] In addition to the trees planted in the forest to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the forest contains several memorials: