The Jewish National Fund announced today a plan to establish a belt of trees around a 500 acre area on the approaches to this city.
The “green belt” will extend more than a mile on each side of the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road and in the direction of Ein Karem. The trees will be planted on rocky, hilly terrain unfit for either agriculture or home building. Some 250,000 trees will be planted on this project, one-third during the coming rainy season.
The first trees in the “Stollman Grove,” a part of the Jerusalem “green belt” were planted this week-end at a ceremony attended by members of the Israel Cabinet and of the Jewish Agency executive. The grove is named in honor of the Stollman family of Detroit.
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