Trees in KKL-JNF Forests

“Bulgaria and Israel have a special bond, and history and the test of time have transformed that bond into a genuine friendship.” - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev.

The carob tree—one of the most familiar and beloved trees with which the land of Israel has been blessed—deserves its own festival, too, and indeed, on September 28, in Tel Hadid in Ben Shemen Forest, KKL-JNF organized a special event in its honor.

In describing the Sukkot holiday celebrations that took place in the Temple, the Talmud says that whoever did not witness the joyous festivities then has never truly witnessed joy. There was a similar feeling this year at KKL-JNF's traditional olive harvesting event at Tel Hadid in Israel's central region.

KKL-JNF launches International Clean Up Day with a bang, at a ceremony in Switzerland Forest near Tiberias.

In honor of the special relationship between Israel and Uruguay, Mario Bergara, the president of the Central Bank of Uruguay, planted a carob tree sapling at the KKL-JNF Yad Kennedy VIP planting center just outside of Jerusalem.

From August 30 to September 2, KKL-JNF joined representatives of commercial companies from all over Europe at the International Wood Fair in Klagenfurt, Austria.

"KKL-JNF and the Israeli Air Force Museum are like twin brothers," said Yaakov Terner, founder and head of the museum and former mayor of Beersheva.

KKL-JNF's Afforestation Division hosted two experts on forest products utilization from the United States Forestry Service (USFS), Mark Knaebe and Larry Swan, in order to learn from their experience and to see how it might be applied in Israel.