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Scientists analyzing DNA helix and editing genome within organisms, CRISPR technology (elenabs via iStock by Getty Images)
June 15, 2023, 3:10 pm
‘Next’: A glimpse at innovators and tech set to change the world as we know it
This summary of Avi Jorisch’s new book takes a look at how people and countries are helping meet 13 key sustainable development goals
By Shoshanna Solomon
Anat Halgoa Solomon, co-founder and CEO of Saturas showcases the Israeli startup's smart sensor-based precision irrigation system at Microsoft's booth at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March, 2023. (Courtesy)
May 4, 2023, 6:41 pm
Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech
US tech giant to help bring local agritech to the next level; Israeli startups work with Microsoft teams and showcase their technologies to the global marketplace
By Sharon Wrobel
A desert view of the Ashalim power station, a solar power station, in the Negev desert. August 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2022, 6:18 pm
First map of Israeli desert tech identifies over 300 companies
Report aims to expose country’s strength and potential for tackling desert challenges worldwide
By Sue Surkes
A dam built in the 1960's by the Department of Antiquities, and the ancient Mudlim tunnel, both built to protect the area from flooding, in Petra, Jordan, Nov. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Laure Van Ruymbeke)
April 27, 2022, 9:11 pm
Activists work to battle land degradation in water-scarce Jordan
As UN report warns of vast global deterioration of land, local initiative introduces four native plants to 10,000 acres of desert in the Sabha reserve east of Amman
By OMAR AKOUR and WANJOHI KABUKURU
Agriculture Minister Oded Forer and UAE Minister of Food and Water Security Miriam Al-Mahiri sign a deal in Tel Aviv on July 13, 2021. (Moshe Hermon/GPO)
July 13, 2021, 9:40 pm
Israel signs first agricultural agreements with the UAE
Countries agree to cooperate on research and innovation, including development of strains of produce suitable for growing in desert conditions
By ToI Staff
Palestinian farmers harvest onions in Jordan Valley in the West Bank, on February 10, 2020. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
July 26, 2020, 6:11 pm
Annexation will threaten region’s water and food security, report says
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies predicts West Bank move would also freeze essential cooperation on environmental issues, likely intensify effects of climate change
By Sue Surkes
Students work in the field at the Arava Institute. (Courtesy)
May 17, 2020, 5:08 pm
West Bank annexation will threaten Israel’s natural resources, institute warns
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies says applying sovereignty would endanger scientific collaboration with Jordanians and Palestinian, weaken resilience to climate change
By Sue Surkes
A Palestinian girl fills a jerrycan with water during a heatwave at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
June 17, 2019, 8:54 am
Israel lays fourth water pipeline to Gaza, the largest yet
New pipe could up the amount of water Israel sends into the enclave, if its poorly maintained infrastructure can handle it
By ToI Staff
Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez talks during an economic forum as part the XXVI Iberoamerican Summit in Antigua, Guatemala, November 15, 2018 (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
December 23, 2018, 11:47 pm
Honduras mulling moving embassy to Jerusalem — report
Senior delegation said to visit Israel with list of demands aimed at increasing trade, security ties between the two countries
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of protests about the water situation in Iran, June 30, 2018. (Twitter)
July 12, 2018, 10:26 pm
Iranian police kill demonstrator during protest over water scarcity
Local commander says shots fired in the air after crowd refused to disperse, man hit in the neck and died in hospital
By ToI Staff
Howard Feldman
February 4, 2018, 2:15 pm
Howard Feldman
Blame BDS for the Cape Town water crisis
For the first time, a major city is about to run out of water — for no good reason whatsoever
Illustrative image of a fax machine. (via Shutterstock)
July 10, 2017, 11:12 am
MK challenges fax’s outdated rule over Israeli bureaucracy
New bill seeks to force public offices throughout the startup nation to accept email communication
By Sue Surkes
Helen Gottstein
May 2, 2017, 10:06 am
Helen Gottstein
Blue and white going green
69 ways you can change your household practices to protect the Israel you love (instead of just singing about it)
File: Then-coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT) Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, left, and the Palestinian Authority’s Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh sign an agreement to revitalize the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee, January 15, 2017. (Courtesy COGAT)
January 15, 2017, 11:24 pm
Israelis, Palestinians sign deal to jointly improve West Bank water supply
Renewal of Joint Water Committee is fourth key infrastructure agreement signed between Israel and PA in past year and a half
By ToI Staff
Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) seen with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel during their visit at the Volcani Institute, November 10, 2016. Photo by Flash90
November 14, 2016, 3:28 pm
Minister gives Russia $50,000 drone on whim, crimping research and breaking rule
Uri Ariel impulsively gifts Dimitri Medvedev advanced aircraft used for surveying crops; he wanted the software too, but didn’t get it
By Sue Surkes
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