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Apr 19, 2026, 11:49 PM

The Elusive Israeli Earth Day

It should be a celebrated coincidence that this year Israel’s Independence Day is also Earth Day. Yet unfortunately the convergence further highlights the lack of Israel’s energy independence by the government’s continued refusal to embrace renewables—which are at least...

Sep 9, 2025, 2:25 PM

It’s the fossil fuel industry, Greta

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (R) is seen on board of a vessel of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists, and humanitarian aid and aiming to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, moored at Barcelona port on September 1, 2025 (Lluis GENE / AFP)

To truly end suffering in the Middle East, stop fueling the climate of hate against Israel and recognize petrodollars' devastating impact

Mar 12, 2024, 12:14 AM

Amalek & Purim, reconsidered

No group is more responsible for the collective historical trauma of the Jewish people than Amalek -- an evil people who first snuck up to attack the weakest of the Israelites 3,700 years ago, reappeared in the Book of...

Jan 3, 2022, 11:47 PM

Tu B’Shvat and Shemitah during the Climate Crisis

A quarter of a billion trees have been planted in the land of Israel since Herzl established the Jewish National Fund, and since the educator Zeev Yavetz began the custom of planting trees for Tu B'Shvat at the school...

May 13, 2021, 6:42 PM

Cleaning up our toxic politics

We all know, deep in our hearts, that this wave of violence—from within and from outside our borders — was not inevitable and completely preventable. So was the tragedy at Miron and so many other casualties of our broken...

Apr 19, 2021, 11:57 PM

Theodor Herzl, environmentalist

Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)

With Earth Day falling on Herzl Day, it's worth noting that the father of political Zionism envisioned a green land with electric trains, trams and tractors

Jan 7, 2021, 2:18 PM

Broken Democracies and Hearts

As an American-Israeli, my heart broke twice during the assault on democracy in Washington, DC. The riots on Capitol Hill are a direct result of four years of Trump’s willing enablers in the Republican Party and their various related media...

Oct 15, 2020, 4:19 PM

Needed at the World Zionist Congress: A last-minute rebellion of decency

Will Reform and Conservative factions really vote, along with Blue and White, to retain a failed and corrupt leader of the Jewish National Fund?

Sep 7, 2020, 2:12 PM

My date with history… and hope

The seed of Hannah and Methuselah. September 2020 (Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)

Scientists on a desert kibbutz coaxed fruit out of 2,000-year-old seeds found at Masada. It tastes like honey mixed with inspiration

Aug 13, 2020, 11:49 AM

Shabbat dinner with Kamala and Doug

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At dessert, the now-US VP contender told us her goal was to hold the center together on Israel in the Democratic Party

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About Me

Israel’s leading climate justice activist, Yosef I. Abramowitz pioneers transformative green energy initiatives throughout sub-Sahara Africa and the Middle East. Nominated by 12 African countries and Israel for the Nobel Peace Prize, Abramowitz serves as a leader of the Climate Forum of the President of the State of Israel, co-chair of the Bedouin-Jewish climate justice NGO Shamsuna, and CEO of EnergiyaGlobal. He can be followed @Kaptainsunshine

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