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Rawabi, the First Planned Palestinian City

Tractors carving up the face of a hill in preparation for the new town. (Photo credit: Green Prophet) About a half hour’s drive north of...

Tel Aviv Requests Public's Help in Boardwalk Redesign

A rendering of Tel Aviv’s new central promenade: stairs leading down to the beach, a paved lower level, shade-providing structures and new sidewalk and beach...

Can Israel’s Wind Power Sector Compete with Solar?

Photo by sla514 via Travelpod. In Israel, renewable energy has become almost synonymous with solar energy in its various forms. But what about that other...

Will Solar Fields Cover Israel's Last Open Spaces?

Empty land in Israel’s Arava desert. (photo by Jesse Fox) A conflict may be brewing between an emerging renewable energy industry and environmentalists over land...

Israel, Egypt Considering Joint Solar Energy Project in Sinai

Israeli Minister Ben-Eliezer addressing the Eilat energy conference this morning. (photo by Daniel Cherrin). Israel and Egypt are discussing a possible collaborative solar energy project in the...

A New New Central Bus Station for Tel Aviv?

“I used to get off at the old bus station, and to me it was like another country…” goes the Tipex song (free translation mine)....

Israel's Public Housing Blocks to Get Solar Roofs

Solar panels at a testing site in Abu Dhabi. (photo by Jesse Fox) According to a report published this week in Globes, Israel’s public housing...

Citizens Shut Out as Tel Aviv Debates Skyscraper City

The Tel Aviv City Council held a discussion yesterday on a handful of building plans that, if approved, would effectively transform some of the city’s...

Coming Soon: A Wall of Skyscrapers Between Tel Aviv and Jaffa?

A year after a municipal planning committee decided to put plans for a row of skyscrapers near Jaffa on hold, the plans are back on...

What's Next for Israel's Green Movement – Meimad?

Ofer Kot, #10 on the Green Movement – Meimad’s list of candidates for Israel’s Knesset, spent election day in February handing out the movement’s fliers...
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