Tu Bishvat

Your Investments: Ran Gvili, the Exodus from Egypt, Tu Bishvat and your money

We have it great in Israel. Remember how back in the old country we celebrated by going to the dentist after cracking some teeth eating the hard, wood-tasting boxer (carob)?

Tu BiShvat.
Dried fruits.

A stew that fits every meal: The perfect recipe for Tu Bishvat

Granola and dried fruit pack, Egoz Hakfar

Nuts, snacks and treats: We’re getting ready for Tu Bishvat

The Basic Balaboosta launches Tu Bishvat candle collection celebrating trees and fungi

The Basic Balaboosta launches Tu Bishvat candle collection celebrating trees and fungi


Tu Bishvat invites appreciation of trees and greenery in Israel - opinion

Jews who lived in the Old World often encountered constant gloom, never seeing green trees or even the sunlight.

 A KEREN KAYEMETH LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund tree-planting takes place in the Binyamin region on Tu Bishvat.

In honor of Tu Bishvat, new tree bill submitted to Knesset

MK Alon Tal: "Time to plant a new law – the best birthday present we can give the country’s forests and those that will yet be planted."

Palm trees grow at an R&D station in Israel's Arava region

Pandemic thoughts on Tu Bishvat - opinion

Nature, the Holiday of Trees' romantic hero, is the villain with which civilization is now at war.

Cranes fly amid blooming almond trees in an orchard near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. On Tu Bishvat we will, like the Psalmist, praise ‘the birds of the sky’ that ‘sing among the foliage.’

On Tu Bishvat, the new year of trees, try some new bread

Just as with life, baking bread can be a reminder that you are only partially in control – however much you want to feel otherwise.

 JUST AS with life, baking bread reminds you that you are only partially in control.

Negev Bedouin protests an issue long ignored by Israel - analysis

As the country saw this week in the Negev, when Israel turns a blind eye to longstanding issues, they tend to pop up and smack you in the face.

 Israeli security forces detain a Bedouin man during a protest against forestation at the Negev desert village of Sawe al-Atrash, southern Israel January 12, 2022.

Pascale's Kitchen: Tu Bishvat fruits

We are used to eating lots of dried fruit on Tu Bishvat, but there’s really no reason we can’t eat them all year long.

 Decadent dried fruit cake.

Tu Bishvat: Planting trees in Israel

This story is dedicated, on his first Yahrzeit, to the great collector Ezra Goredesky z”l, a friend for 40 years.

 SEASONAL DRAWING, Ze’ev Raban, ‘Moadim.’

Tu Bishvat: There's Jewish tradition in trees

According to Jewish mystic tradition, Tu Bishvat is the day when God renews sustenance and the life cycle of trees (when the sap starts to rise).

 MANY PIOUS Jews hold a Tu Bishvat Seder, an ancient tradition upheld in Safed. Pictured: Seder in Meron, last January.

KKL-JNF: Fighting to defeat the climate crisis 

An interview with Avraham Duvdevani, world chairman of KKL-JNF, which is helping develop the Land of Israel

 AVRAHAM DUVDEVANI has been at the helm of KKL-JNF since November 2020

How Israel revolutionized Tu Bishvat - opinion

Tu Bishvat it the Jewish holiday which is considered the birthday for the trees.

 A TU BISHVAT table filled with fruits and nuts.