Israel boasts about its forests, encouraging people to visit nature areas and using them to promote donations from abroad to the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael (JNF-KKL) to plant trees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plane uses a retardant to extinguish a fire burning in an area near the border with Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel. (Leo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Aleppo pine, for instance, is a fast-growing species found throughout the western Mediterranean, Greece and parts of the ...

This is a broad initiative led by the ministry, as part of a national regulatory process, aimed at providing effective protection for forested areas in Israel.

It was only 10 a.m., but it had already been a long day for the firefighters in these borderlands of southern Lebanon. They had barely finished containing a 130-acre forest fire when a call came in at ...

Amid the ruins of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli forces, life sprouts from the branches of newly-planted trees. While the Israeli government might suggest that this is nature reclaiming old ...