Experts from key state and civil society organizations are joining forces to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel. The plants — many looking more like bushes, with tiny fruits ...

A lesser-known dimension of Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine since 1967 is the systematic destruction of the Palestinian people’s economic resources and means of livelihood. One of the most ...

In springtime, when the flowers of olive trees open in Jerusalem, pollen catches the Mediterranean winds and sails east. The pollen travels over the walls of the Old City, across the Kidron Valley to ...

These trees have endured drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning—much like the people of Gaza. But they fought to survive. Each year, my family looks forward to the olive ...

BEITUNIA, West Bank — This time of year, Palestinian olive farmers are usually hard at work in their groves. But during this harvest season, 35-year-old West Bank farmer Thaer el Taher can only look ...

According to tradition, a small olive oil jar was used to light the menorah in the Second Temple in Jerusalem for eight whole days, after the Jews had successfully risen against their Greek-Syrian ...

Over the past week, Israeli forces have bulldozed and uprooted 3,000 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah. The village of al-Mughayyir has been ...