Tu Bishvat

New archaeology exhibit marks 60 years of Knesset building with rare finds from Jerusalem, Galilee

The event hosted more than 2,000 visitors, including soldiers, police officers, Holocaust survivors, and students from schools and kindergartens across the country.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
The new exhibition at the Knesset, February 3, 2026.
Adam VeAdama CEO Amit Meir: “Our students grow fruits and vegetables themselves and produce their own honey and olive oil.”

Tu Bishvat: ‘Adam VeAdama’ students from Hashomer Hachadash aid 400 Israeli farmers

The Adam VeAdama network operates seven agricultural boarding schools, stretching from Mitzpe Ramon in the Arava to the Golan Heights.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremonial Knesset plenum session to mark the establishment of Israel’s parliament. February 2, 2026.

Netanyahu warns Israeli democracy eroding, opposition boycotts ceremonial Knesset session

Netanyahu said Israel’s democratic balance has eroded at a Knesset ceremony marked by opposition boycotts and the absence of senior judicial figures.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Jerusalem 1951, Young Girl Planting a Sapling During Tu BiShvat.

KKL-JNF marks Tu Bishvat, highlighting tree-planting tradition with newly released archival photos

“These photographs document a tradition that continues today and connects generations and Jewish communities around the world,” Sinai said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pandemic thoughts on Tu Bishvat - opinion

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

JANUARY 13, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
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.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByLES SAIDEL
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.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByHERB KEINON
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.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByPASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN
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.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByDAVID GEFFEN
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).

JANUARY 13, 2022ByDVORA WAYSMAN
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

JANUARY 12, 2022ByALAN ROSENBAUM
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.

JANUARY 10, 2022ByMICAH HALPERN
A TU BISHVAT table filled with fruits and nuts.

Tu Bishvat, and a message of hope

It is surprising that Tu Bishvat, the celebration of a “New Year for the Trees,” falls in the middle of the winter.

JANUARY 1, 2022ByMENACHEM LEVINE
A TU BISHVAT table filled with fruits and nuts.

Rebranding Tu Bishvat via an environmental lens

Tu Bishvat is an opportunity to study how factory-farming violates Torah doctrines concerning animal welfare and environmental protection.

JULY 28, 2021ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Gali Savaryego tends to Nir, a calf with an artificial leg and eye cover that protects him from flies, at Freedom Farm on Moshav Olesh.