RE’IM PARK, southern Israel – The Israeli Forestry Service, KKL-JNF, is helping to create a living memorial for the hundreds killed at a music festival on October 7th. The tree planting comes as the country marks what’s known as “The New Year of the Trees” or Tu B’Shvat, in Hebrew.
This year’s holiday comes under the shadow of war and death. Those responsible for Israel’s forests want to focus on new life..
Noah Tal, who heads the planning division of the Jewish National Fund, KKL-JNF, told CBN News,”Everyone is welcome here, and we want this area also to have infrastructure for leisure and recreation and symbol of life, and also tell the story of what had happened here – because what had happened here can never happen again.”
Tal added, “This is something that is beyond human understanding, and this is what we want the place to symbolize.”
In the beautiful park on the perimeter of the Gaza Strip, where flowers are blooming, more than 300 trees were planted by relatives of the 364 young people who were murdered at the Nova Music Festival.
Moran Cohen, whose brother Benjamin was murdered, told us, “We came here today to plant trees for them to remember them,
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