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Dressed for the part: Wearing an African shirt, Ambassador Gideon Behar enjoys homegrown produce in his garden. (Courtesy)
August 18, 2025, 8:02 am
Off to Africa, outgoing climate change envoy aims to spread gospel of Israel’s green tech
Taking his environmental message with him as he becomes Ambassador to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and the Seychelles, Gideon Behar believes Israeli innovation can change the world
By Sue Surkes
Unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chenical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Corporation power plant on December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
April 12, 2025, 8:31 am
Pensions and savings schemes are key pathway to fighting climate crisis, confab told
First climate finance conference in Israel hears call for more government steps and action by individuals, warnings to business not to be left behind
By Sue Surkes
COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber at the end of the COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
December 28, 2023, 11:05 am
Little room for optimism after COP28 climate confab, environmental leaders say
One Israeli activist calls Dubai summit a ‘win for maintaining the status quo,’ as lawyer laments that the ‘narrow financial interests of the fossil fuel industry have taken over’
By Sue Surkes
The iconic Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 1, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 12, 2022, 11:35 am
Lack of action at first MENA climate meet doesn’t bode well for Egypt’s COP27
Israel’s climate envoy calls on Egyptians to give tech solutions center stage at upcoming COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh; says ‘time for describing the problems is over’
By Sue Surkes
Israel's special envoy on climate change, Ambassador Gideon Behar, at the first-ever UN Middle East and North Africa regional conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 28, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
March 29, 2022, 1:51 am
In Dubai, Israel’s climate envoy urges the Arab world: ‘Let us share climate tech’
Ambassador Gideon Behar tells roundtable of ministers from Middle East, North Africa, that Israeli innovations can help them better face climate crisis
By Sue Surkes
In this July 9, 2009, photo, Adilla Finchaan, 50, and her husband Ashore Mohammed, 60, check theIr land in Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
November 3, 2021, 9:00 am
Regional leaders set to ratify Middle East climate plan next year
Science-based 10-year action plan put together under auspices of Cypriot government
By Sue Surkes
Israeli soldiers of the IDF Givati brigade attend an army exercise in the southern Judean desert, June 6, 2012. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90 /Flie)
August 4, 2021, 4:04 pm
IDF tentatively facing up to Israel’s next major threat — climate change
Military sets up low-level team to consider climate-related work plan, but is urged to go much further and view global warming as a national strategic threat
By Sue Surkes
Jewish Labour Party MP Ruth Smeeth (screen capture: YouTube)
September 3, 2016, 12:07 am
Corbyn supporter to UK Jewish MP: You should hang from the gallows
Given police protection after death threat, Ruth Smeeth says Labour leader must ‘name and shame’ party’s anti-Semites
By JTA and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2013, 11:26 pm
PM lashes out at ‘anti-Semitic’ Israel critics
Netanyahu urges Jerusalem conference to ‘fight and win the battle’ for fair representation of the Jewish state
By Adiv Sterman
An Egyptian man chants anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo, May 11 (photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP)
May 28, 2013, 11:39 am
Amid controversy, Foreign Ministry kicks off anti-Semitism conference
Critics bash forum for hosting top officials from Hungary, Greece, Lithuania and Ireland — countries with ‘tainted records’ — on battling Jew hatred
By Raphael Ahren
Dougoutigo Fadiga outside the Bani Israel clinic near the Senegalese village's sacred tree, May 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
May 25, 2013, 3:12 am
In Senegalese bush, Bani Israel tribe claims Jewish heritage
Proud Muslims, the villagers must change the name of their birthplace to enter Mecca, but still do not deny Jewish ancestry
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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