JNF as the Forest Maker: 100 Million Trees-More to come
In thei70th•anniversary year of
the founding of the Jewish National
Fund, the number of trees in the
JNF forests has grown to more
than 100,000,000.
As the agency responsible
for the afforestation and land re-
clamation of the entire territory
of the 23-year-old state, JNF has
mapped an objective of an addi-
tional 100,000,000 trees to cover
the remaining wastelands of Israel
and to improve the soil and climate
for an ever-growing population:
In 1901, the Jewish National .
Fund was founded to acquire and
develop land in Palestine for the
eternal possession of the Jewish
people. To carry out this mis-
sion, it embarked upon a pro-
gram of planting trees, reclaim-
jng the soil, draining swamps
and building roads—all designed
to prepare the way for a Jewish '
settlement of Palestine.
.in 1910 came the first recorded
JNF planting: the Herd olive
forest in Ben •hemen.
not • only for -its fruit; but for its
ever-fresh appearance and com-
fortable shade.
A touching moment occurred on
May 26, 1968, with the inaugura-
tion of the Jerusalem Peace Forest
planted by the Jewish National
Fund in memory of those who fell
in the battle for Jerusalem one
year earlier.
This Peace Forest is but one of
a chain of parks • and wocidlands
which will be planted by the Fund
in tribute to this bard-won city. •
In honor of Detroiters, the fol-
lowing JNF forests have been
planted:
Rabbi Morris and Goldie Adler
Forest
Sam Adler Forest
Norman and Esther Allan Fam-
ily Forest
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Louis- Berry Family Forest
The Frank Bias Forest
Tom and Sarah Borman Forest
(in memory of their parents)
Fred M. Butzel Forest
Harry I, Cohen Forest
Irwin L and Sadie Cohn Forest
Louis Cooper Forest
Joseph Ehrlich Forest
Louis M. Elliman Forest (in
memory of his parents)
Isaac and Martha -Faxstein For-
est
Joseph and Rose Frankel Fam-
ily Forest
Peter and Pauline Goldstein
Forest
Francis Heidenreich Hermelin
and son Marvin Forest
Rabbi A. M. Hershman Forest
William Hordes Forest
Bernard and Belle Isaacs Forest
Jewish Women's European Wel-
fare Organization Forest
Sam Kahn Forest
The Kasle Family Forest
Saul and Sophie Katz Forest .
David Kobaker Forest
Phillip M. Klutznik Forest (De-
-
troit Bnai Brith)
Benjamin L. Latin Forest
The Lewis Family Forest
Nathan and Ad _ a Linden Family
Forest
Marvin and Roberta Littky Fam-
-
ily Forest
Ben Nosancbnk Forest
Abe and Laura Nusbaum Forest
Morris and Fannie Perin Memo-
rial Forest
Pioneer Women of Detroit For-
est (in the Leah Briskin Forest)
Morris and Rose Pollack Forest
Albert and Libbie Posen Family
Forest
Aaron and Ida Rosenberg Forest
Rosenblatt Family Memorial
Forest -
Cantor A. A. and Helen Rosen-
feld Forest
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Morris L. Sehaver Forest
Irving W. Schiussel Forest
Harry Schumer Forest
Isaac. and-Simon Shetzer Forest
Irving J. - Shevin Forest
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Leonard and Harriette Simons
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Forest
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Saul Sloan Forest
and Anna Slomovitz For-
Stoltinsui Family Forest
Daniel Temdzbt Forest
United Hebrew Schools Forest
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Willianio-Hart Forest
Women's Auxiliary Forest
Rabbi Mandel M. Zager Forest
(Detroit Bnai Brith)
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Maurice
Zeiger Forest (De-
troit Bnai Brith)
Paul Zuckerman Family Forest
In the summer of 1919, the JNF
drew up a plan for the sowing of a
forest of pines, covering an area
or 200 dunams (50 acres) on a
hill in Judea. In 1924, the first
large JNF afforestation project
was started, with the - planting of
the first trees for the Balfour
Forest near Ginegar.
By 1948, when the state of
Israel was proclaimed, JNF had
planted 5,000,000 trees. Now, with
streams of survivors from Nazi
death camps pouring into the
country, the work of the JNF be-
came even more pressing. Within
18 months, Israel's population in-
creased 40 per cent. Homes and
work, had to be provided for the
newcomers. Afforestation, already
a major factor in the revival of
the land, became equally important
in providing new jobs. The
settlers were employed in the
planting and maintenance of the
forests, but, in addition, they were
given an opportunity to set up
farms of their own. And so the
trees grew roots and spread
throughout the land, covering the
denuded landscape with a wel-
come mantle of green.
In Israel, the new forests are
helping to restore, reshape and
protect the land. In the area of
the Negev, the new green forests
hold their own against shifting
sand dunes and protect cultivated
fields from desert storms. All over
the country, growing young forests
are improving the climate by fresh-
ening the air, helping to increase
rainfall and reducing the tempera-
ture in tropic areas.
Which trees adorn the hills and
valleys of Israel and have proven
most successful in the JNF af-
forestation program?
The carob is not only shady
and beautiful and lives to a ripe
old age, but its fruit makes an
excellent compressed fodder in
a country that is very poor in
pasturelands. Carob honey is
very popular throughout the
East.
The acacia grows into a fra-
grant flower-bearing tree and is
the source of chemicals used in
the dyeing and tanning indus-
tries.
The moisture-absorbing euca-
lyptus, so vital In reclaiming
swamp areas, has many more
virtues. It makes paper, textiles,
medicines aid. beautiful fund-
The tamarisk will grow where
practically nothing else: flour-
ishes. -
The delicate, fragrant pista-
chio yields a valuable oil especi-
ally useful in medicine.
The tall pines, cypresses and
swaying casuarinas are dressing
Israel in a cloak of new beauty.
The silvery-green olive is loved
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11W DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6-Friday, October 1, 1971
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