Elul 26, 5776, 9/29/2016
In today's headlines: תג בכותרות
Tu B'Shvat Birthright Group Sees Israel Through EcologyIn honor of Tu B'Shvat, a group of ecology students currently on Birthright took a special tour of Israel. Photo Essay for Tu B'Shvat: Israeli LandscapesArutz Sheva presents a special photo essay of Israeli landscapes in honor of Tu B'Shvat, which coincides with Shabbat Shira this year. Photo Essay for Tu B'ShvatArutz Sheva presents a special photo essay in honor of Tu B'Shvat. Video: JNF Celebrates Tu B'ShvatThe JNF launches its celebrations in honor of Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for Trees on which it is customary to plant trees. Bnei Akiva Youth Plant Trees in ShomronThe Bnei Akiva youth movement held tree planting events across the country. Arutz Sheva visited the tree planting in Samaria. The Most "Special" Tree Planters on Tu B'ShvatBnei Akiva took out Shevet Yuval, a group of disabled students, to join the movement's tree planting activity for Tu B'Shvat. Tu B'Shvat Celebrated in Destroyed CommunityFifty activists from the Homesh First group celebrate a Tu B'Shvat seder in the community of Sa-Nur, destroyed in 2005. Video: Ambassador Shapiro Plants an Olive TreeU.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro planted an olive tree in honor of Tu B’Shvat in an area badly damaged by the Carmel fire. Tu B’Shvat Goes ‘Modern Green’The Tu B’Shvat holiday traditionally is celebrated by planting trees to make Israel green. Environmentalists add new meanings. Diaspora Kids Skype to SamariaJewish 6th graders in Los Angeles connected to their counterparts in Shaarei Tikva, in Samaria, for a Tu B'Shvat event using Skype technology. Tu B'Shvat: New Year of TreesINN marks the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat, the “New Year for Trees,” with a photo essay celebrating the beauty that grows in the Holy Land. ‘No Turkish Figs for Tu B'Shvat’Almost all of the figs in Israel are imported, but a group is calling Tu B'Shvat to keep the holiday Zionist and boycott Turkish figs. Bibi: Ariel Capital of SamariaNetanyahu on Friday added Ariel in Samaria to Gush Etzion and Maaleh Adumim as “indisputable’” parts of Israel, outside a new would-be Arab state Netanyahu: Gush Etzion ForeverNetanyahu reinforced his vow that Gush Etzion is “an eternal” part of Israel and planted a tree there. Maaleh Adumim and Ariel are next in line. Enlisting Quran for Israel LandJewish activists seeking to keep Shdema Jewish handed out Arabic flyers quoting Quran on the unbreakable bonds between Land, Nation of Israel. Planting Flowers on Tu B’ShvatTu B’Shvat is known as the Festival of Trees, thousands of which are planted yearly. Flowers will join the celebration in Jerusalem next week. |
