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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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Raanan Ram, owner of Organic Farm in Klil, Western Galilee, on October 21, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
October 22, 2024, 8:30 am
An off-the-grid hippie hamlet in Israel’s north struggles for survival under rocket fire
With half the residents gone and most businesses closed, residents of the alternative community Klil work hard to maintain their laid-back lifestyle under almost daily Hezbollah attacks
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Power lines above the town of Bnei Re'em on April 26 2010. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 25, 2024, 7:56 pm
Electricity bills expected to drop as major privatization reform enters into effect
Even without a smart meter, domestic consumers now free to choose between Israel Electric Corporation, seven other private suppliers; Energy Minister expects bills to drop 5 to 20%
By Sue Surkes
View of a large fire caused by attacks from Lebanon, in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, June 3, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 21, 2024, 1:23 am
Israel unprepared for full-blown war with Hezbollah — senior electricity official
Head of company responsible for planning country’s electrical systems says Israel would be uninhabitable after 72 hours without power; after furor, claims he misspoke
By ToI Staff
The Orot Rabin Israel Electric Corporation coal-powered power plant, on the Mediterranean coast in the city of Hadera, May 10 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 6, 2023, 11:49 pm
Government said set to discuss controversial ‘kosher electricity’ plans Sunday
Bill aims to build energy storage units to be used by Haredi community during the Sabbath, instead of polluting, unsafe generators
By ToI Staff
Nofar Energy's first solar energy storage batteries at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel. (Nofar Energy)
April 16, 2023, 6:32 pm
Electricity Authority announces move to increase renewable energy production
Reform will incentivize people to store renewable energy and release it into grid during evenings and nights when space is available
By Sue Surkes
Power lines next to Moshav Bnei Re'em in central Israel, April 26, 2010. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)
September 12, 2022, 8:04 pm
Government asks business, academia to find way to cut power line radiation
Environment ministry one of first to use new national challenges portal to reach out for solutions to complex problems
By Sue Surkes
The Naviglio canal in Canneto sull'Oglio at the turn of the 20th century. The water drop can be seen behind the children. (Courtesy)
October 15, 2021, 1:38 pm
How the hydroelectric genius of Einstein’s dad lit up an Italian town in 1899
The mill in Canneto sull’Oglio is again generating green energy, over a century after Hermann Einstein made the village one of the first in its region with electric streetlamps
By Giovanni Vigna
A new West Bank power station which Israel has transferred to Palestinian control (IDF Coordinator of Government Activity in the Territories)
October 20, 2020, 9:53 pm
With coordination still suspended, Israel hands three power stations to PA
The West Bank substations join the Palestinians’ first one in Jenin, which the PA began running in 2017; are expected to improve power supply in region
By Aaron Boxerman
The West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 11, 2018, 7:56 pm
PM orders illegal outpost hooked up to power grid after terror attack
Settlers downplay move as ‘spin’ and call on Netanyahu to legalize Havat Gilad
By Jacob Magid
An Israel Electric Corporation employee working on an electric line. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
December 27, 2017, 3:02 pm
Electricity reform moves forward as deal struck with union
Government reaches deal to end monopoly and bring down prices; power company to shed hundreds of jobs
By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades shake hands during their meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, on June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
October 17, 2017, 12:25 am
Work on Israel-Cyprus-Greece electricity link to start in 2018
Cypriot official says 1,500 kilometer cable connecting power grids of 3 countries set to be approved by Israeli regulators in November
By AP
Illustrative: A Palestinian farmer hoses off the udders of cows at the Jebrini dairy farm in the West Bank town of Hebron, April 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
April 12, 2017, 11:50 am
Palestinian family powers up with cow pies
With the help of Hebron’s Polytechnic University, farmers are using bovine manure to produce electricity for one of the West Bank’s largest dairy plants
By Sarah Benhaida
Palestinians walk by a wall painted in honor of festivities marking 10,000 years of the West Bank city of Jericho. Jericho is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. October 10, 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 3, 2016, 7:21 pm
Israel returns power to Jericho despite debt
Electric corporation owed some 1.7 billion shekels ($450 million) by private company JDECO and the Palestinian Authority
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a cybersecurity expert (AP/John Minchillo)
January 5, 2016, 10:08 pm
IT experts say Ukraine blackout caused by a cyberattack
Kiev claims malware resposible for a computer virus that shut down networks of local electrical grids last month
By AFP
Israel Electric Corporation's Yiftah Ron-Tal. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 14, 2015, 2:50 pm
Electric Corporation to fire 600 more workers in 2016
Management hopes major reform effort will place the struggling monopoly back in the black
By ToI Staff
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