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Will GM’s Green Cadillac Sell in the UAE?

Sleek, green and probably expensive; GM's extended range ELR will soon be coming off assembly lines The love for expensive and unique cars in many...

Better Place Denmark Hopes to Get Electric Car Venture (Finally) Going in October

Denmark's Better Place commercial launch may finally take place - in October Better Place's electric car project in Denmark will finally get going in that...

Renewable-Energy Cars Heat Up in Turkey

Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergün test-drives a solar-powered car at a solar vehicle competition in the Turkish city of Izmir. A strange array of...

Danish Council Rejects Blue Better Place Chargers

A municipal council in Denmark has rejected Better Place's blue and gray electric vehicle chargers! If powered renewably, Better Place electric vehicles can significantly reduce...

GP Exclusive Interview: Turkey Beginning to Lay Infrastructure for Hydrogen Economy

Hydrogen-fueled vehicles and power systems could be feasible in Turkey by 2020, says Mustafa HatipoÄŸlu, managing director of the UN's International Centre for Hydrogen...

Better Place Inaugurates First Battery Swap in Denmark

Denmark is the newest country to get Israeli innovator Shai Agassi’s battery-switching stations. The first of 20 long-planned Better Place battery swap stations slated...

Jerusalem Train Points to Ancient Underground River

According to biblical legend the world's first water emerged from a Genesis-era spring in Jerusalem. Looks like researchers found the river.

Donkeys, Not DSL to Get Syria’s News Out

Journalists are waiting on the Jordan border to get news by donkey, as Syrian activists smuggle out video. When I traveled to Syria more...

Nissan and Renault EVs: What if Every Appliance We Use Ran on Gasoline?

Gasoline engines still work fine in cars; but what if they ran hair dryers or computers? Renault and Nissan, who happen to be partner auto...

Tel-O-Fun (Finally) Brings Bike Sharing to Tel Aviv

Thanks to Tel-O-Fun, now Tel Aviv urbanites with the tiniest of apartments can bike around without the storage hassle. Despite widespread announcements that it would...

Virgin’s Galactic Space Travel – a Greener Trip from LA to Abu Dhabi

Rola learns how space traveling from LA to Abu Dhabi could one day produce less greenhouse gas than commercial air carriers. Last week, in...

Better Place EVs Priced at $35,623 USD for Summer Delivery

How many battery exchange stations will be ready when the cars do go on sale this July? Ever since Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi opened his...

Polluting Cars May Be Banned From Israeli Cities

New rush hour anti-pollution measures may reduce this kind of "morning haze" in major Israeli cities Following plans to ban transport trucks in major...

Masdar City’s Pod Car Makers – The Interview

Director of the Masdar City PRT project, Robbert from 2getthere talks to Green Prophet about Masdar's modest fleet of driverless pod cars. Hundreds of people...

Why China Could Prove to be the Better Place for EVs

Could China's totalitarian government advance disruptive technology better? This week Shai Agassi's Better Place is realizing a long held dream of moving to a better...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Knowing about the concept of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary helps explain a core idea in Islam.

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