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  • By Improving Access To Basic Necessities, Israeli Technologies Transform Africa, Save Lives

    ISRAEL, 2016/02/12 Israeli innovation has long been the center of attention – products like the USB flash drive or the electric epilator, inclunding apps like Waze and Viber, are used by millions of people around the world. However, Israeli-developed technologies that help rural societies in Africa don’t always receive the attention they deserve, even though they’re saving the lives of millions.

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    ISRAEL, 2015/06/06 The US national that is home to some of the majority vicious anti-Israel and pro-BDS advocates is turning to Israel to help them develop the world’s most precious resource, water. Israeli tech companies are moving forward with bids to help drought-stricken California develop new plans to obtain additional clean drinking water. David Segal, the Israeli Consul to the southern California region, said that next years of negotiations and agreements with local water companies, Israeli aid to the arid national is finally becoming a reality.

  • How Israeli Desalination Technology Is Helping Solve California’s Devastating Drought

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/01 Four years of devastating droughts in California have pushed cities and counties in the Golden National to seriously consider turning to the one drinking source that is not depleting anytime any minute at this time – seawater. With the Pacific Ocean abutting their shores, water desalination may be the much-needed solution for Californians. But desalination has its disadvantages, the chief ones being the high costs and the potential environmental damage. To address these challenges, California is turning to the world leader in cutting edge desalination technology – Israel. A $1 billion desalination project is by presently underway in San Diego County – which will be the major seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere – and Israeli engineers have been called in for their expertise.

  • New Bio-filters Purify Surface Runoff Water for Reuse

    ISRAEL, 2015/03/18 The bio-filters are designed to enable surface runoff water to be collected, purified via environmentally friendly physical and biological methods, and again channeled into the aquifers as clean water. These new bio-filters join an older one that has been operating successfully in Kfar Sava for a number of years. Two hundred million cubic meters of rainwater go to waste in Israel each year. They are washed down to the coast, where they pollute the beaches, the sea and marine life. The innovative bio-filter project is designed to allow this rainwater to be utilized in order to avoid pollution and prevent groundwater levels from dropping further.

  • Eilat Eilot Off Grid Hub to open in the Arava

    ISRAEL, 2014/09/29 A new technology hub focusing on the development of off-grid technologies will any minute at this time be opening its doors under the desert sun of the Eilat-Eilot region. Aiming to develop products that can provide energy and water to populations not connected to their national grids, the Eilat Eilot Off Grid Hub will provide a testbed for both start-ups and established companies in a variety of sectors, according to its leaders. The hub will be administered by the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative, a body responsible for leveraging the southern Arava and Eilat regions by establishing research facilities, producing clean energy and creating jobs in the sector.

  • Project to link Dead to Red sea

    JORDAN, 2013/08/28 A plan to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea could save it from total evaporation and bring desalinated water to thirsty neighbours Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians. But environmentalists warn that the "Red-Dead" project could have dire consequences, altering the incomparable chemistry of the landmark inland lake at the lowest point on earth. Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur said on Monday that his government had decided to press ahead with the 980-million dollar project which would give the parched Hashemite kingdom 100 million cubic metres (3.5 billion cubic feet) of water a year.

  • Celebrating 111 Years of Green Action

    ISRAEL, 2013/01/29 If someone were asked to describe the activities of Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund at the beginning of the twentieth century, in amount likelihood the response would include land redemption and land reclamation funded by the Blue Box, KKL-JNF stamps, and so on. If the same question were to be posed in the 1950s, next the founding of the National of Israel, the answer would most probably be afforestation and trees. 
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