Zo Artzeinu — an organization that began as a right-wing activist movement and has since shifted its focus to planting trees in Israel — created a campaign to plant 12,000 fruit trees in ...

Despite their ubiquity in Israel in modern times, carob trees are not mentioned at all in the bible. It is only in Mishnaic era literature that we begin to encounter this fruit-bearing tree.

It arrived in Israel around the fourth to third centuries BCE, and while it is not clear when exactly the etrog became the “choice fruit of the tree,” it quickly rose as an important symbol to ...

Israeli settlers attacked the Qa'oun plain near Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley, located northeast of the ...

Israeli settlers attacked the Qa'oun plain ... burning lands, and uprooting fruit-bearing trees. Local activists and residents view these actions as a deliberate attempt to weaken the resilience ...