German Airmen Prepare JNF Trees for Planting on the Shmita Year | Jewishpress

Fourteen German Air Force soldiers were invited on Sunday by KKL-JNF to prepare trees for planting on the holiday of Tu B’Shvat—which falls on January 17—since the Jewish year 5782 is a shnat Shmita (Sabbatical year). The event was a show of the strength of the German-Israeli relationship.