Jews around the world will this week celebrate Tu Bishvat, a holiday that has gained particular significance in the Jewish state in marking the people's bond to the land

'Venatata,' currently running Tu B'Shvat campaign, has marshaled 15,000 volunteers, created gardens in 70 institutions for people with special needs

Pylon plan will see felling of hundreds of trees, some aged over a century, in Hulda Forest, planted in 1907 in memory of Herzl; cables to bring renewable energy to center

PM, ministers present plan to cabinet after year's work by inter-ministerial committee; trees to be planted along 30,000 km of roads

In JNF forests, Bedouin see 'soft expulsion,' environmentalists see a key ecological interest, and right-wing politicians see a weapon against illegal squatters

Globally, 30% of trees threatened with extinction. Most of Israel's 62 species classed are as being 'of least concern' with just one categorized as endangered

With arbor ardor running high, tens of thousands of Israelis choose symbol of peace in KKL-JNF survey, helping it beat out Tabor, palm and lowly fig

For his July birthday, Prof. Sol Green, who founded YU and Bar-Ilan University's social work departments, is gifted a leafy donation to KKL-JNF

In run-up to national tree planting holiday, Knesset study shows 40,000 licenses granted to uproot 376,000 trees over six years -- most to make way for building