Just a day before Israelis celebrate the Tu B’Shvat holiday by planting trees, and only nine days after KKL JNF Jewish National Fund launched a campaign to plant 100,000 new trees in the country, a Knesset report revealed Sunday that the Agriculture Ministry has issued tens of thousands of licenses in recent years to cut down 376,000 trees — more than half of them to make way for building projects.
The data was compiled by the Knesset Research and Information Unit at the request of lawmaker Miki Haimovich, head of the Blue and White party’s ‘Green HQ.’
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