Tu Bishvat

The Korean trend arrives in Israel: Single-use skincare capsules at Super-Pharm

Super-Pharm launches the SUPERGLOW+ series – single-use Korean skincare capsules with vitamin C and hyaluronic acid. Alongside them, ten additional new products are hitting the shelves.

|BySHOVAL AZUR
SO.KO by Super-Pharm
Children arrive for the first day of school in the Israeli town of Mevaseret Zion, September 1, 2025.

Israel to ban student use of cell phones on elementary school property, starting February

“We are allowing children to return and truly meet each other, reduce external distractions, and expand the human and natural connection between students, without screens,” Kisch said.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
Yitav Stream

The Jordan valley's secret: Magical tours for only NIS 10

Subsidized tours, night safaris, family camping, and bike trips: Seven weekends of attractions and experiences in the Jordan Valley at minimal cost. Starting on Tu Bishvat with special activities.

|ByMEITAL SHARABI/MAARIV
CHECKING AN etrog for blemishes in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood, ahead of Sukkot.

Tu Bishvat and praying for the future

The notion of a winter prayer for an etrog may seem strange. We might wonder: Is this prayer still meaningful and relevant?

|ByLEVI COOPER

Tu Bishvat: The creation of beautiful things

In the past, trees were sacred to many people, but only Judaism has a New Year for them, which falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (Tu Bishvat).

JANUARY 28, 2023ByDVORA WAYSMAN
Border policemen plant saplings for Tu Bishvat in the Arazim Valley near Jerusalem. Tu Bishvat falls on February 6 this year.

Tu Bishvat: Happy new year – if you're a tree

Tu Bishvat reminds us of our responsibility to the environment – that we should cry out against the enormity of the destruction of rain forests and the degradation of God’s world.

JANUARY 28, 2023ByDVORA WAYSMAN
PLANTING TREES in honor of Tu Bishvat.

Tu Bishvat planting ceremonies held in UAE, Bahrain

"We must work to plant the seeds now so our future generations will enjoy the fruits of peace. That is what the holiday and the Abraham Accords are all about"

JANUARY 21, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Bahraini woman plants a tree in honor of Tu Bishvat on January 17, 2021.

Grapevine January 21, 2022: Herzog weighs in on Meron tragedy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
TEDDY KOLLEK in 1955.

Festive Tu Bishvat celebration in the UAE

Jewish community marks first anniversary of the Jewish Educational Campus in a festive planting event with KKL-JNF.

JANUARY 16, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Children celebrate Tu Bishvat in the UAE

Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees: What is it and how is it celebrated?

Tu Bishvat, known as the New Year for the tree, will be marked this year from Sunday evening until Monday evening.

JANUARY 16, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli kids plant trees for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in Haifa on February 9, 2017. Tu Bishvat is also called literally "New Year of the Trees." In contemporary Israel the day is celebrated as an ecological awareness day and trees are planted in celebration.

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.

JANUARY 15, 2022ByRAYMOND APPLE
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."

JANUARY 14, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
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.

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.