The Jewish National Fund and the Beersheba municipality have agreed upon plans for wide-scale afforestation around the Negev’s largest city. Three hundred dunams of trees are to be planted this year and 400 more next year. The first area to be afforested adjoins the Ben-Gurion University.
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