Today is Earth Day, the day when everyone promises to do something good for our planet in the coming year. In Israel, its Earth Day every day!

Companies are constantly working on ways to be greener and more research and development is being invested into finding alternative energies. It is from Israel that the message of electric cars came to make our planet a better place.

When more then hundred years ago, Jews were motivated by the Zionist movement, they decided to redeem and develop their Homeland. Swamps where dried to combat Malaria and trees where planted to give more shade and to help filter the air.

Indeed Israel is the only country in the world where more trees are planted every day then being cut. Almost 300 million of trees have been planted in Israel over the last century to revive the woods.

Today anyone can hike in the nice oak and Terebinth (Pistacia palaestina) forests, like at the time of the biblical King David. Extinguished animal species were reintroduced; a new ecosystem was created, reintroducing biblical wildlife.

An ambitious program by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority has reintroduced several of the herbivore mammal species that were extirpated in the region. Reintroduction is carried out worldwide in order to increase the range and the likelihood of survival of endangered species.

Moreover, reintroduction also raises public awareness about the importance of nature preservation. Finally, in addition to rescuing the wildlife itself, reintroduction is also an effective way to preserve natural habitats.

David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel affirmed in an interview on CBS (5 October 1956): “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”

So let us believe in miracles flourish the desert, develop green energies and make our region greener for the benefit of all its inhabitants.

To learn more about “Green Israel,” watch CNBC Thursday, April 22 at 8 pm EST.

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