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MK ALON TAL SUBMITS NEW “FOREST AND TREES” LAW

In honor of Tu B'Shvat, first comprehensive forestry law proposed in Israel for a century MK Alon Tal (Blue and White) chose, Monday, January 17th, 2022, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat (T’u B’Shvat), the traditional New Year of trees, to submit a new forestry law for Israel.  The law is an expanded version of a statute prepared some ten years ago, when Tal chaired the committee that oversees forestry for the Jewish National Fund international board. But the draft law was ultimately abandoned due to the political considerations of the JNF chair at the time.  The present, expanded version is submitted after several months of ...