Some 200,000 people will attend this year’s tree planting ceremonies on Tu B’Shevat next week. The festivities this year will be larger than in the past, at dozens of planting scenes throughout the country. The central ceremony will take place in Jerusalem, at an area between the new neighborhood of Ramot and the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat.
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