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America's Top Rebbetzins

Rebbetzin Mattie Pil--New Beginnings and Miracles in Nissan (Planting Seeds for a Better Future)

By Vera Kessler

Rebbetzin Mattie, is the rebbetzin of the Schneerson Center, a synagogue in San Francisco, California.

Israel / Business and Economy / Cyprus / Greece

Israel to Ink Major Energy Deal With Cyprus and Greece

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Israel is poised to finalize an energy deal with Greece and Cyprus which will include a mammoth electricity project connecting the power grids of the three countries, and a potential future regional natural gas pipeline between the eastern Mediterranean allies.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / The Environment / Jordan / Gulf States / UAE

Israel, Jordan and UAE Sign Solar to Water Energy-Sharing Agreement

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Israel will provide Jordan with desalinated water in exchange for solar electricity produced in Jordan in a plant built by the UAE.

America's Top Rebbetzins

Rebbetzin Ivy Kalazan-Rosh Hashana: Everything Flows from the Beginning

By Vera Kessler

Rebbetzin Ivy Kalazan talks about how Rosh Hashana (the Jewish new year) is a time for planting the seeds of our intentions for the coming year. Rosh Hashana is not about the past; it's about the future.

America's Top Rebbetzins

Rebbetzin Via Kimche: EFT Tapping-Helps Kids/Teens/Adults With Trauma, Weight Loss, Anxiety & More

By Vera Kessler

Rebbetzin Via Kimche discusses EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), also known as tapping.

America's Top Rebbetzins

Rebbetzin Orit Esther Riter--Going Beyond Our Limitations Through the Power of Faith (Emuna)

By Vera Kessler

Rebbetzin Orit Esther Riter offers solid strategies to help us transcend the difficulties and challenges in our lives through emuna.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Seeking Clean Energy, Israel to Build Hundreds of Wind Turbines up North

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This is part of a series of projects to develop renewable energy sources for Israel.

Israel / Business and Economy

Leviathan Gas Rig Begins Pumping Gas to Israel

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

In total, some 35 trillion cubic feet of gas have been found in Israeli waters, worth some $500 billion.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / The Environment

Israeli Energy Minister: ‘the Age of Coal-Use in Israel Will End by 2025’

By Arye Green / TPS

Steinitz said he is considering setting a goal of 25%-30% for renewable energy production in Israel.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech

Israel Sets New All-Time Record In Using Renewable Energies

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel has developed some of the world’s most advanced solar energy equipment and enjoys sunshine almost year-round.

Israel / Business and Economy

Foundation for Leviathan Offshore Gas Platform Arrives in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Netanyahu described it as a great revolution – turning the State of Israel into an energy power.

Featured / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Congrats, Mediterranean, You're 100 Million Years Younger than We Thought

By JNi.Media

A new joint study by the Geological Survey, the Hebrew University, and the University of Haifa completely changes the basic conceptions by which large energy companies are looking for gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean basin.

Featured / Politics / Iran / Business and Economy / Islamists / Science and Tech / Russia

Iran Atomic Energy Chief: We're Buying 950 Tons of Yellowcake from Kazakhstan

By JNi.Media

Salehi quoted historian Arnold Toynbee, who predicted that if the Islamic people were freed from their shackles, the world would see the emergence of a civilization which would challenge the West.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Weizmann Scientists Engineer Bacteria Making Sugar from Greenhouse Gas

By JNi.Media

The Institute scientists inserted the metabolic pathway for carbon fixation and sugar production into the bacterium E. coli, a known “consumer” organism that eats sugar and releases carbon dioxide.

Lessons In Emunah

Shabbos Energy

By Ann Goldberg

Apart from that, the Oneg was a great success with inspiring divrei Torah and singing until late.

IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Lebanon / Hezbollah / Rockets from Gaza

Report: Terrorists Tried to Attack Israeli Gas Rig during War in Gaza

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A security official told a Knesset committee the attack during Operation Protective Edge missed its objective of blowing up the rig.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Dallas Jew Trying Promotes Texans to Invest in Oil and Gas in Israel

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Clare Freeman, head of the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, says there is plenty of money to be made in the Israeli energy industry.

News Briefs / Business and Economy / Egypt

'Mega" Gas Field Discovered off Egyptian Coast

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The gas field is far larger than those discovered off Israel's coast and will supply Egypt with gas for decades.

US / Iran / News Briefs / Science and Tech / European Union

Menendez Dismembers Iran Deal, Suggests More Robust Deal

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Menendez explained how the JCPOA actually shields Iran's nuclear weapons program from interference.

Israel / News Briefs / France / Science and Tech

Southern Israel Solar Field of 134 Acres Connected to Electric Grid

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The solar energy field of at Kibbutz Ketura cost $79 million and consists of 140,743 solar panels.

News Briefs

Iran and P5+1 Agree to 'Key Parameters' with Unknown Clauses

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is not called an agreement but instead "key parameters" for a final agreement. Some elements of the agreement may not be made public.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Jordan / Egypt

Israel to Export Gas to Egypt

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is hard to believe, but Egypt is now dependent on Israel for gas instead of the other way around.

Israel / News Briefs

Israel to Sell $500 Million of Natural Gas to Jordan

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel’s new position of being energy self-sufficient is merging with Jordan’s more dependent on Jerusalem.

Israel / Global / News Briefs

Solar Power Field in Jewish-Sponsored Youth Village in Rwanda

By JTA

The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa will be built on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda. The nearly $24 million project was announced Monday by Yosef Abramowitz, the president of Gigawatt Global Cooperatief, which arranged for its financing. Construction has already started on the solar field on land belonging […]

Iran / News Briefs / Turkey

Erdogan Says Iran is ‘Turkey’s ‘Second Home’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, which he called “our second home. The ayatollah in return “described the current brotherly and friendly relations between the two countries as unparalleled in recent centuries,” Iran’s official Press TV reported. Erdogan apparently has made another about face in his roller coaster policies […]

Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / Russia

Abbas Asks Russia for Billion Dollar Gas Project Off Gaza Coast

By Jewish Press News Desk

Palestinian Authority  chairman Mahmoud Abbas asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Thursday to invest in a $1 billion natural gas project off the coast of Hamas-controlled Gaza, Russia’s news agency reported. Abbas is vesting Moscow, which has been a strong backer of the Palestinian Authority. Securing a huge investment for Gaza would help Abbas win […]

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Off-Shore Oil Field May Contain 3 Billion Barrels of Oil

By Jewish Press News Desk

Noble told analysts that drilling will not begin before the end of next year.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Gas to Pump $60 Billion into Economy in 20 Years, Says Lapid

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s new offshore gas industry will generate $60 billion in revenues in Israel over the next 20 years, Finance Minister and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid told the Knesset in its first day of the winter session Monday. He charged the Opposition with damaging the economy by placing obstacles to the natural gas hook-up, […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Former Chief of Staff’s Oil Well a Colossal Flop

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Not all that glitters is gold and not all that smells like oil is money. Israel has become an oil and gas producer, but one oil well, run by a firm whose CEO is ex-Chief of Staff Ashkenazi, is a bust.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Easing of Fears of Attack in Syria Sinks Shekel-Dollar Rate

By Jewish Press News Desk

The shekel-dollar rate sank to a two-year low Wednesday, reaching to as low as under 3.56 shekels to the dollar, after President Barack Obama called off a Senate vote on giving him permission to attack Syria. One shekel now is worth slightly more than 28 cents, good news for Israelis wanting dollars but terrible for […]

Israel / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy

New Israeli Oil Find near Gaza Could Drive Hamas, Abbas into War

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel may have struck it rich twice – once with indications of oil off the southern coast and twice with the prospect of Hamas and Abbas fighting it out over probable claims to the Israeli discovery.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Turkey / Business and Economy

‘Erdogan Shoots Himself in the Pocket with Anti-Israel View’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Israel rhetoric is interfering with Turkish-Israeli cooperation that could turn Turkey into a regional energy base to ship Israeli natural gas to Europe. “Their inability to complete a pipeline deal would hurt Turkish ambitions to become a regional transit center and mean continued dependence on Russia and Iran for […]

Israel / NY / News Briefs

House Panel Approves $2 million for US-Israel Energy Cooperation

By JTA

The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has allotted $2 million for U.S.-Israel energy cooperation in the fiscal year 2014 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill. The money in the bill is the latest such appropriation under the 2007 U.S.-Israel Cooperation Act, which created a grant program to support research and development of renewable energy sources. […]

Terrorism / Israel / Global / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Greenpeace Infiltration May Have Prevented Terrorist Attack

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Thank God it was Greenpeace and not Hezbollah. If terrorists, instead of activists, had entered Israel’s natural gas terminal and roamed freely for 90 minutes, it would have been a mass catastrophe.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Natural Gas Magnate Says Gov’t Can Pocket Billions from Exports

By Jewish Press News Desk

The government can expect to rake in billions of dollars from natural gas exports in the next 20 years, claimed Yitzchak Tshuva, controlling shareholder of Delek, which is a major partner in the Nobel Energy consortium that has begun pumping gas from its off-shore oil discovery. Opposing views are trying to prohibit exports, arguing that […]

Israel / US / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Bill Clinton Tried to Block Israel’s Taxing Newly-Found Gas

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Bill Clinton’s wealth is more than $55 million. He gets a double dividend as a paid energy lobbyist and being a “friend” of Israel by lobbying against the government’s taxing newly-found gas.

News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Tshuva: No Shabbat Desecration Occurred

By Shalom Bear

Yitzchak Tshuva expressed regret that the gas flow's arrival into Israel was being presented as having desecrated the Shabbat or the Pesach Holiday.

Fresno Zionism

How Israel Should Use Its New Found Energy Wealth

By Vic Rosenthal

Israel should use its new gas resources to further its political interests, just as the Arabs have done with their energy resources.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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