More than six thousand young Israelis are taking part in week or fortnight-long summer camps at five Jewish National Fund forest sites around the country. The main activities at these camps include trips in the surrounding countryside with lectures on its history and geography, study-days on aspects of Zionism, and forestry work including pruning and thinning-out of trees.
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