Looking for insight into what makes Israel's clean tech industry tick? This new book might provide a good background read:

The book was sold-out even before its official release on November 4, says Saul Singer, author and columnist from Jerusalem. Singer co-wrote

Amnesty International is making claims that Israel is leaving Gaza with only a trickle of water. In my efforts to report on positive projects from the Middle East, I recently covered this story -- one where the Mayor of Gaza is co-operating with one from a nearby Israeli city, so...

They are on investors' hit lists and the green tech media is keen to monitor their progress. Key policy makers from the United States urge them on. Israeli solar technology innovators are channeling and shaping the sun's energy and breaking the world's dependence on oil.

With organizations like the

The clean technology industry in Israel is being fueled by Israeli military companies and personnel, according to a new JTA article. Agree with the country's politics or not, it is good that something green (besides military uniforms) comes out of the army - from any army. You could say necessity...

A plucky little country, is how the late Princess Diana once described Israel to Shimon Peres. About the size of New Jersey, Israel has a disproportionate number of clean tech companies and investment in clean technology compared to its size. And now businessman and investor David Anthony from...

Leonard Cohen played to a sold-out crowd on September 24 in Ramat Gan, Israel. About 6 months ago when the tickets started going on sale, the country was abuzz: are you going to see Leonard Cohen? It was a question asked by grandmothers to young teens. A Canadian friend...

Boycotting and destabilizing a country's business heart for political reasons is fine in my books. But boycotting art, schools, or the environment?

Spain, with which Israel has a number of high profile collaborative clean tech projects in solar energy and in water, have decided to boycott a solar science project...

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Miracle #1: If you haven't heard by now, Israel has its own mermaid. Seen frolicking in the Haifa Bay, tourism officials have offered a $1 million prize booty for solid proof she exists. Causing a boom in tourism in the town of Kiryat Yam near Haifa, people...

The 2,000-mile border between Mexico and the United States is nothing compared to the short distances of about 100 miles between the major cities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.

Borders, distances and how we cross them have taken on new significance lately with the latest outbreak of...

Scanning through the weekend news looking for ideas, a New York Times story caught my eye. Beyond all the expected political rhetoric, Palestinian kids from the West Bank town of Jenin had played a concert for Holocaust survivors in Holon, outside of Tel Aviv. My heart jumped with happiness.

Last time I ordered flowers for my mom it backfired. Although promised by Canada Flowers to arrive on the special day, they arrived a day late. Flowers are not so environmentally friendly any way.

If your mom has seen too many flowers in her lifetime...

They couldn't have come at a more dangerous time. Six university newspaper editors from America visited Israel for the first time last December, and the already planned trip happened to coincide with the first week of the recent Gaza Conflict.

In a reality style documentary, the young Americans had...

Fridge watching, fridge voyeurism or whatever you want to call it, is a movement, where people take snapshots of the food inside their fridges for the world to see. It can be a very intimate encounter, revealing so much about a person, and their habits....

Unlike America's President Obama, Israel has no great political "hero" type lined up at the ballot box to save us from a nuclear Iran, Hamas terrorists in Gaza, mounting threats from the Syrians, and the Hezbollah in Lebanon. (And a looming financial crisis too). What Prime Minister on Israel's election...

Technology isn't just for geeks. For those of us lovers and users of the supremely contagious micro-blogging phenomenon known as Twitter, we know technology and social media tools are a great way to promote green issues, education and charity.

Now's your chance to Twitter...

My friend Karen Chernick, a Brandeis University alum, speaks about how her alma mater betrays the very principles on which it was founded.

Last week I interviewed Peter Lerner an IDF spokesperson working at the Kerem Shalom border crossing. This is the largest checkpoint/border crossing between Israel and Gaza, and it is where humanitarian aid is being transferred.

According to Lerner, no donation has been turned away, referring to the units...

I met Andrew Dubbins, the Assistant Editor of Georgetown University's student newspaper, The Hoya, when he was in Israel last week. Here with the Washington-based organization Project Interchange, this young college newspaper editor was visiting Israel with 5 other college newspaper editors from across the US on a...

There are 6 sets of parents in America right now who might be wishing that their kids weren't college newspaper editors. I'd met the group of 6 young editors in Tel Aviv earlier this week, in Israel on a one-week tour -- a special seminar hosted by the Washington-based...

"I heard the bombs are dropping again."

Yes, Dad. They are. Israel's been quiet for a long time, I told him from my house in Jaffa. I was testing the new line I had installed, and called Canada to see if it worked. My mom, as usual, was screaming...