Gnarled and ubiquitous, a symbol of peace and longevity, the olive tree has been crowned Israel’s national tree. Winning nearly 33 percent of some 148,000 votes cast online, the olive was ...

Since the olive did not grow naturally in the Jordan Valley, this means that the inhabitants planted the tree intentionally about 7,000 years ago. 7,000 years-old hearth remains at the village of ...

As far as Olive Trees are concerned, they are more than just plants in Israel but rather symbols of history and its culture.

Millennium Olive trees at the Franciscan Hermitage of Gethsemane in the Mount of Olives, just outside Jerusalem's Old City, Israel, on October 21, 2017.THOMAS COEX / AFP ...

“Italians use olive oil today because Roman soldiers brought trees with them from this land, back to their capital centuries ago,” he explains proudly. It all started here. Olives are, after all, one ...

Israel has destroyed more than 100,000 olive trees in the West Bank since 2010, according to Palestinian NGOs. “Israeli settlers have uprooted, burned down and chemically poisoned 101,988 olive ...

The uprooting of olive trees by the Israel Defense Forces and by settlers are done to protect the settlers, since they are supposedly used to protect gunmen or stone throwers.

Then, during the late Iron Age, about 750–550 BCE, olive agriculture in the thriving kingdoms of Judah and Israel was undone by Assyrian and Babylonian invasions.

The idea is to support Israel, and to strengthen connections with individual Israeli farmers,” Kobi Assaf, the initiative's ...

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has politicised every part of life, from the birth rate to some burials. The annual olive harvest is about much more than oil. According to the UN ...

The next size up is 150 meters with 5-6 trees, then 250 meters with 9 trees, 500 meters (1/2 dunam) with 18 trees, 1 dunam with 36 trees, and multiple dunam.

Anonymous persons cut down the olive tree that was planted in the Paris area in 2011 in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish ...