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Planting trees in the Gilboa mountains, c.1960. After Israel's establishment in 1948, the government began to sell absentee lands to the JNF. On January 27, 1949, 1,000 km² of land (from a total of about 3,500 km²) was sold to the JNF for the price of IL11 million. Another 1,000 km² of land was sold to the JNF in October 1950.
Donate; Create account; Log in; ... List of endemic flora of Israel refers to flowers, plants and trees endemic to Israel. There are 2,867 known species of plants.
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 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 ...
Among those who have planted trees at the site are former Chiefs of Chaplains of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force. [25] Israeli groups also take part in the tree planting tradition, especially on the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, an occasion linked to trees. On some occasions as many as 4000 Israeli school children have come to the ...
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:
The plant grows in the Levant, including: western Syria, [7] the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon and Mount Lebanon up to an altitude of 1000 m, [8] on the Golan Heights, in most of the northern and central part of Israel and the West Bank (Upper and Lower Galilee, around the Sea of Galilee, on Mount Carmel and the Coastal Plain south of it ...
Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, The National Herbarium of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and ROTEM - Israel plant information center. 1999. Shmida, Avi, MAPA's dictionary of plants and flowers in Israel, MAPA publishers, 2005 (Hebrew). Flora of Israel Online, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, retrieved October 2008.