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From groundbreaking solar energy projects and advanced desalination technologies to smart agriculture and eco-conscious urban planning, Israel offers unmatched opportunities for investors seeking growth in the clean energy and sustainability sectors. Explore Israel’s thriving ecosystem of green startups, cutting-edge research, and eco-friendly solutions that are driving global environmental change.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

Energy Karin Kloosterman - June 7, 2026

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

Travel Jeffery Yoskowitz - June 7, 2026

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.

Israeli Hydrogen Startup H2Pro Are Trying to Solve Clean Energy’s Hardest Problem

Energy Karin Kloosterman - June 2, 2026

The company has attracted backing from major investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the climate fund founded by Bill Gates, along with industrial partners such as Sumitomo, ArcelorMittal, and Temasek, a multi-billion dollar company that owns Singapore airlines. H2Pro has raised more than $100 million USD and is moving from pilot projects toward commercial-scale deployments.

Desalination experts debunk Aqua Solaire, the floating desalination barge

Technology Karin Kloosterman - May 11, 2026

AI makes it easy to dream, develop, and create images of what could be world-changing ideas, until the reality sets in. A new project making the rounds is Aqua Solaire, an allged French concept for a solar-powered desalination vessel designed to bring drinking water to coastal communities facing drought, storms, and infrastructure failures.

Eco organization offices destroyed by Iran missile

Act Karin Kloosterman - March 5, 2026

Tel Aviv's eco organization, the Heschel Center, was impacted by an Iranian missile.

What are AWG air-water generators, and why they aren’t a golden-bullet solution (yet)

Tech Karin Kloosterman - March 3, 2026

Atmospheric water generators (AWGs) sound like magic: machines that can pull drinking water out of air. The idea is mentioned in the Bible, where the elders would pray for water collected as dew on plants and the catch on turning this into a machine is in the physics. To turn invisible vapor into liquid, you must remove heat, especially the latent heat of condensation.

Jordan’s $6 Billion Aqaba–Amman Desalination Project from the Red Sea Moves Forward

Water Karin Kloosterman - March 3, 2026

In 2025, the Jordanian government signed agreements with a consortium led by Meridiam and SUEZ, alongside VINCI Construction and Orascom Construction. Under a 30-year concession agreement, the consortium will design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the system before transferring it back to the Jordanian government. The total investment is estimated at approximately $6 billion USD.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

Peace Karin Kloosterman - February 23, 2026

For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.

Earth building with Dead Sea salt bricks

Architecture Amnon Direktor - February 5, 2026

Researchers develop a brick made largely from recycled Dead Sea salt—offering a potential alternative to carbon-intensive cement.

Farm To Table Israel Connects People To The Land

Food Miriam Kresh - February 2, 2026

Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

Remilk makes cloned milk so cows don’t need to suffer and it’s hormone-free

Food Karin Kloosterman - January 21, 2026

This week, Israel’s precision-fermentation milk from Remilk is finally appearing on supermarket shelves. Staff members have been posting photos in Hebrew, smiling, tasting, and clearly enjoying the moment — not because it’s science fiction, but because it tastes like the real thing.

An Army of Healers Wins the 2025 IIE Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East

Act Julie Steinbeck - January 12, 2026

In a region more accustomed to headlines of loss than of listening, the Institute of International Education (IIE) has chosen to honor something quietly radical: healing. The 2025 Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East has been awarded to Nitsan Joy Gordon and Jawdat Lajon Kasab, the co-founders of the Army of Healers, for building spaces where Israelis and Palestinians — Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Bedouins — can grieve, speak, and rebuild trust together.

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