About the National Master Plan for Forests and Afforestation A
lookout from the Gilboa. Photo: Ilan Lorentzi, KKL-JNF Photo
Archive In the framework of the concept of sustainable
development, this document broaches the idea of afforestation in
the "spirit of place"; i.e., afforestation that suits the assets
and attributes of each individual site, fits in with and
enhances its natural resources and contributes to its uniqueness
and identity. NOP 22 effected essential change in the land uses
of Israel's open spaces. The document presents a thorough review
of the major master plans drawn up and approved in the period
since the original time of approval of NOP 22, and the latter's
place in these new plans. In gist and word, NOP 22 has
apparently been assimilated by all the plans: Primarily by NOP
35, the integrated national master plan by a series of regional
master plans submitted and partially approved in this period and
by hundreds of local plans all over the country. Moreover, the
new plans did not subtract f