Sublime

Another sensitive topic on the issue of trees has been the geographic source of these trees. Ascherman assured me that the olive trees that Rabbis for Human Rights donates to Palestinian villages are Israeli olive trees, "born and raised" in Jewish Israeli nurseries only. He presents this as a type of distributive justice: the Palestinian olive

A central military term introduced in this context is ezorei hikuch (friction zones), which are defined as zones where the army promises to protect the trees ad hazait haacharon (until the last olive) (Interview, Rabbi Ascherman, Jerusalem, December 15, 2005; see also Ha'aretz 2007a; Taayush 2004; Frish and Shmueli 2002). On maps drawn by Israel's