Opinion Negev Iris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The State of Israel is among the few countries in the world that has more trees today than a century ago. From the days of the first Aliyah (migration to Israel) in 1882 until today, more than 245 million trees have been planted in the Land of Israel — a huge number that changed the face of Israel’s landscape. Planting trees is an important act of Zionism since the days of the redemption of the lands by Yehoshua Henkin and their afforestation by the KKL. For example, in the 1960s, the Yatir forest was...