By David M. Halbfinger Nov. 15, 2018 JERUSALEM — Last year, when the Trump administration was still trying to entice the Palestinians into peace talks with Israel through cooperation rather than coercion, it encouraged the two sides to team up on small-scale infrastructure projects as a way to rebuild trust while improving conditions in the […]

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Living on Earth November 13, 2018 Reporter Sandy Tolan In the Middle East’s Gaza Strip, a narrow piece of contested land where three out of four people are refugees, unsafe drinking water has led to a worsening health crisis. Gazan children suffer from diarrhea, kidney disease, stunted growth and impaired IQ. Twenty years ago, 85 […]

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9/11/2018 The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) concluded its 11th annual conference, held in Beirut on 8-9 November 2018 in Beirut, to discuss financing sustainable development in Arab Countries. The conference brought together 420 delegates and 50 speakers from 36 countries, representing government bodies, the private sector, regional and international organizations, research centers, […]

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NAJIB SAAB 7/11/2018 Over the past 10 years, the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) reports have identified the state of Arab environment in all its aspects and proposed solutions that have contributed to endorsing numerous environmental policies in the region. The adoption of sustainable development goals and the ratification of the Paris Climate […]

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full report available http://www.afedonline.org/webreport2018/AFEDReport-financingSDinArabCountries2018-.pdf 5 PREFACE 7 INTRODUCTION 17 CHAPTER 1 Overview of Financing Sustainable Development in the Arab Region Niranjan Sarangi, Hisham Taha, Souraya Zein, Angelic Salha 63 CHAPTER 2 The Role of Arab Development Institutions in Financing Sustainable Development Abdul-Karim Sadik 85 CHAPTER 3 Innovative Financing Ibrahim Abdel Gelil 109 CHAPTER 4 Enabling […]

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The plan looks to replace coal with natural gas and solar energy as well as forbidding the importation of cars that run on gasoline or diesel fuel Zafrir Rinat According to a new plan by the Energy Ministry, Israel will stop using coal at its power stations in Hadera and Ashkelon, reserving it only for […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Oct 29,2018 Strong winds tore through greenhouses in the northern and central parts of the Jordan Valley during last weekend’s depression. The Ministry of Agriculture said that a committee started on Sunday to evaluate the extent of damage (File photo) AMMAN — Farmers in the Jordan Valley have reported losses worth […]

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Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb abstract: This article explores the trope of desert desolation in the Zionist state-building project. It traces the strategic uses of desolate imagery in the pioneer narrative (1880s–1920s), by the New Hebrew culture (1923–1948), during the ‘golden age’ of urban and regional planning (1948–1956), and through marketing the Negev desert town of Mitzpe […]

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Competition aims at helping destinations improve themselves By Hana Namrouqa – Oct 17,2018 AMMAN — An international competition organised by 10 leading sustainable tourism organisations and networks has named Ajloun Forest Reserve as one of the world’s top 100 sustainable destinations for 2018, in recognition of its responsible and sustainable tourism initiatives. The Sustainable Destinations […]

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The Heschel Center Sustainability Updates from Israel By Ran Raviv The most recent bicycle accident in Tel Aviv succeeded in finally attracting public attention to the issue. Among the many articles that were written, the question of the infrastructure needed for safe, easy, convenient and comfortable bicycle riding was raised repeatedly. That is, riding without […]

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By Josh Curtis and Alex Frumkin | 11/01/2018 Water availability hasn’t always been a problem for Susya, a Palestinian village in the Israeli-controlled part of the southern West Bank. Until recently, the village has been able to fulfill its needs from rainwater collection. However, between 1999 and 2001, the Israel Defense Forces destroyed most of […]

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The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns of the devastating implications for civilization if we don’t take dramatic steps in the coming years. In particular, the Middle East will be hard hit with extreme temperatures, droughts and more, impacting life in Israel severely. The Heschel Center stands at the […]

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By Meira Hanson, with the assistance of Dr. Irit Rotem. In municipalities across Israel election day looked like Heschel Alumni day. 13 Heschel Alumni ran in the elections on October 30: their agendas were diverse but all of them were driven by, unsurprisingly, from the will to lead change. The local arena is no stranger […]

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There is also a criminal investigation into EAPC over what expert called the worst spill in Israel’s history. By REUTERS October 31, 2018 16:37 A 2014 oil spill by a secretive state-run company that flooded an Israeli nature reserve caused 281 million shekels ($76 million) worth of damage, Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry said on Wednesday. […]

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Along the Iraqi banks of the Euphrates river, one question dominates the conversation. What killed the fish? Thousands of tonnes of freshwater carp have washed up dead this month, leaving Iraqi fish farmers reeling from the significant loss of earnings. Carp is the country’s national dish, commonly barbecued outdoors across restaurants in Baghdad. Agriculture officials […]

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An Egyptian government program to pay traders to buy rice straw from farmers at the end of harvest has helped to combat one of Cairo’s ugliest features – a huge black cloud that hangs over the capital during the burning season. Cairo is the world’s second most polluted megacity, the World Health Organization says, and […]

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Banque Du Liban’s second vice-governor Saad Andari announced during a conference that Lebanon expects to start exploratory offshore drilling for oil and gas by the end of 2019, LBCI news said on Tuesday. The exploration will take between three to four years, and will be conducted by a consortium led by French oil giant Total, […]

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Caretaker Economy Minister Raed Khoury said that strict measures will be taken against private generators owners who enforced a two-hour shutdown on Tuesday depriving subscribers from power supply, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday. “The Ministry will legally pursue all private generators owners who cut off electricity. We will take strict measures against them, they will […]

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Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 8, 2018 | 3:24 AM The Tourism Ministry is said to be checking an alternative to the construction of a hotel in the Sasgon Valley in the south, which has been the subject of public controversy for years. In two weeks the ministry and the Hevel Eilot Regional Council are to […]

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Op-ed: Declarations and threats against Hamas will not solve the problem. The Israeli government must make a strategic commitment to solving the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as it did when confronted with missiles and tunnels, only that will stop the violence. David Lehrer 11.03.18 All acts of terror are abhorrent. Declarations and threats against Hamas, […]

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