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Tu b’Shevat survey: Israelis want to plant trees

Some 71 percent of Israelis have planted a tree in their homeland, a survey said.

It takes a retirement village for an Israel bar mitzvah

A handful of residents from an Ohio retirement community visited Israel for a 12-day mission culminating in a group bar mitzvah in Jerusalem’s Old City — the first bar/bat mitzvah for some of the octogenarians.

JNF aims to turn Israel diamonds from rough to ready

The Jewish National Fund has been associated historically with planting trees in Israel. Now the century-old charity is working to make sure that Israelis will have decent places to put good wood on the ball.

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