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Title TU B'SHVAT.
Scope and content The 15th of the month of Shvat in the Jewish calendar is known as Tu B'Shvat, which translates from the Hebrew as simply, the 15th of Shvat. It corresponds this year to the 10th February. Tu B'Shvat is known as the.New Year for Trees'. This is one of four new years that occur during the run of a Jewish Calendar year. In the public mind it is the time to plant trees all over Israel, so that each year the country will have more woods and forests, like there used to be in biblical times. This year, because Tu B'Shvat falls on a Shabbat (Sabbath), it is forbidden to plant anything on that day of the week, therefore ceremonies connected with the New year for trees will take place on the Friday or Sunday. New trees are planted from the beginning of the rainy season that falls about November. During the year Keren Kayemet - the Jewish National Fund - is responsible for coordinating the planting of trees in Israel from four centuries. Each year nearly 3 and a 1/2 million trees are planted all over the country. During the period. around Tu'Bshvat about 250,000 people are involved in one way or another in planting new trees. For children the planting will also involve education about the land. Apart from the planting trees all over the country generally, the JNF has each year special projects to complete. This year it is hoped to complete a ring of trees around Beer-Sheba, where there are already 7,000 dunams of trees. Also there are projects near Jerusalem and in the north of Israel. The planting of the right species of tree is very important, from the point of locality soil and rainfall. In the central tree nursery of the JNF there are over 115 species of trees being grown. From the germination to the time the tree will be a young sapling will be about one year. For many visitors to Israel there is nothing more moving than to plant a tree with his own hand in a JNF project - and this he can do the whole year round. Photo shows Natan Sas the Manager of the central region
Creation Date 1990
Notes המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני
Genre negative
Call number at Current Custodian הספרייה הלאומית, ארכיון דן הדני
IPPA-18918-000-04
Additional Place צולם בתאריך: 30 בינואר 1990
Extent 1 photograph : b/w
35 mm..
Host Item ארכיון דן הדני.
Language No linguistic content
Call Number ARC. 4* 1995 27 18918 4
Access Rights online_resources
Level of Description File Record
Credits ארכיון דן הדני, האוסף הלאומי לתצלומים על שם משפחת פריצקר, הספרייה הלאומית The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel
National Library system number 990040290700205171
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