By Hana Namrouqa – May 23,2016 AMMAN — Pumping of drinking water to Muadi Village in the Central Jordan Valley resumed on Monday afternoon, after fixing a rupture to the main carrier supplying the community with water caused by construction works, a government official said on Monday. The six-inch main pipeline, which carries water from […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/30/2016 With a budget of NIS 2.3 million, the program aims to get rid of garbage at beaches bordering the Mediterranean Sea and in Eilat. Beach season this year will hopefully get a bit cleaner. That’s because the Environmental Protection Ministry announced that they would extend their Clean Beach program on […]

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Sewage on Jeddah’s beaches exceeds international limits: Environmentalist 1/6/2016 Pollution on Jeddah’s beaches exceeds international limits, which should be blamed on the National Water Company’s (NWC) lack of treatment for sewage, according to an environmental specialist. Ali Ishqi, a former environmental professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, claimed that there is considerable pollution on […]

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The largest Concentrated Solar Power (CPS) project to be built on a single site in the world will begin power generation in Dubai within the next five years, officials announced on Thursday. The long view is that the new CPS site will generate 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power by 2030 as part of the Dubai […]

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Before leaving office, former Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon wrote to outgoing Minister Environmental Protection Avi Gabai that IDF cannot afford to halt installation of asbestos replacement parts in tanks and APCs, saying no alternative exists. Amir Ben David Published: 05.28.16, Despite the danger of being exposed to carcinogens, the former Minister of Defense Moshe […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/24/2016 Shai Abad, the Ministry of Finance’s director-general, said that the Israeli government was looking forward to “broadening the Israeli horizon” regarding eco-technology. Clean tech was front and center when American and Israeli government officials met Monday for the 31st US-Israel Joint Economic Development Group. Meeting at the Foreign Ministry in […]

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May 23,2016 AMMAN — University of Jordan (UJ) President Azmi Mahafzah on Monday opened a lab for renewable energy at the faculty of engineering, prepared by the EU programmes, Tempus and Erasmus, at a cost of over 150,000 euros, according to a UJ statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra. The lab includes a […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/22/2016 Valls attends inauguration during his 3-day trip to Israel, calling the site another “chapter of cooperation between our two countries” and a sign of future work. Israel came one step closer to a clean-energy future on Sunday when the country inaugurated a 50-megawatt solar in the northern Negev, through a […]

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By Mohammad Ghazal – May 19,2016 AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with the GCC Interconnection Authority to join the Gulf countries’ power grid through Saudi Arabia. Stressing the importance of the agreement, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Saif said at the signing ceremony that the deal is very […]

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The new clause will allow future governments to review and amend the gas deal legislation; Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz praises the agreement, saying that it will be brought to a cabinet vote in the coming days. Lior Gutman, 05.21.16 The government has reached an agreement on four new principles regarding the stability clause of the […]

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Egypt will pay Israeli Electrical Corporation $865 million over 14 months in compensation for non-supply of gas to Israel via the al-Arish-Ashkelon pipeline since February 2011; if deal is signed, it will open doors to the implementation of a number of other Egyptian-Israeli deals. Lior Gutman, 05.21.16 Egypt and Israel are close to reaching a […]

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