Just before Tu B'Shvat, where we will probably not go out in droves for planting, we found an opportunity to remember how they once celebrated here • In rare photographs of the JNF, children, leaders and distinguished guests are seen rolling up their sleeves and planting a tree
Ben-Gurion plants in Sde Boker, 1961
Photography:
Farkash, the JNF's photo archive
Tu B'Shvat was always a significant day in Judaism, which was used sets date for laws and commandments related to fruit tree and considered the Mishna Rosh Hashana for trees. When she came Zionism, is charging the day with new content.
The former were members of the colony Yesod, planted on Tu contributed " D. (1884) 1,500 trees, including etrogs and pomegranates. Six years later, on Tu B'Shvat 1890, the teacher and author Ze'ev Yavetz set out with his students from the school in Zichron Yaacov for a festive planting. This initiative was absorbed in other Hebrew colonies, and in In 1908, the Teachers' Union declared Tu B'Shvat a planting holiday.
When the Jewish National Fund adopted the custom, Tu B'Shvat gained real momentum and became a holiday of planting that symbolizes national renewal, the return of the people to their land and the preservation of nature.
KKL-JNF Photo Archive There are rare photographs and moving on Tu Bishvat celebrations of the pre-state days, and so on, which are documented in children, leaders and distinguished guests from abroad when they roll up their sleeves and plant trees Land of Israel.
"Everyone who planted a sapling in his childhood with Ron In the heart and in the hand, he remembers the event as an exciting experience, which is stored in his heart throughout his life, "says Efrat Sinai, director of the JNF's photo archive.
"It was a day of elation, which also passes in the photographs. Using the soft seedlings, the planters sought to create new life and plant new hopes in our country. Many of the planters, young and old alike, lingered near their seedling and seemed to see it grow before their eyes. Many of the seedlings seen in the photographs are magnificent. "Today, the forests of Israel, because so far the JNF has planted more than 240 million trees, and another hand is planted."
The "old man" and the tree
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion plants a tree in the forest named after the late General Assaf Simhoni, near Nahal Oz, 1959
Photo: KKL-JNF Photo Archive
Forestry
Schoolchildren from Jerusalem at a planting ceremony in honor of Tu B'Shvat, 1957
Photo: Fritz Schlesinger, JNF Photo Archive
Planting coexistence
Tu B'Shvat planting with the participation of Jewish and Bedouin children in Arad, 1962
Photo: Alex Strazmister, JNF Photo Archive
Planting theory
Albert Einstein on his only visit to Israel, planting on a tower farm near the Sea of Galilee, 1923
Photo: JNF Photo Archive
The beautiful and planting
Brooke Shields planting a tree in Ness Harim, Tu B'Shvat 1983
Photo: Zoom 77, KKL-JNF Photo Archive
The boys will be wrong
A boy at the Tu Bishvat celebrations in Eshtaol, 1955
Photo: Avraham Malavsky, KKL-JNF Photo Archive
A celebration in the capital
The children of Beit Safafa participate in the Tu B'Shvat celebrations in Jerusalem, 1958
Photo: Avraham Malavsky, KKL-JNF Photo Archive
Take a seedling, Sharon
Sharon Stone planted in Kennedy's hand in the Aminadav Forest as part of celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the JNF, 2006
Photo: Avi Hayun, JNF Photo Archive