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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

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US Vice President JD Vance (L) listens as Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaks at the US military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP)
April 8, 2025, 8:58 pm
Trump’s energy chief to visit UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia on 2-week Mideast trip
Sources say Chris Wright will push for increased oil supply and lay groundwork for president to visit region in May
By timothy gardner
In this photo taken Thursday, February 23, 2017, researchers work in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix/AP)
February 27, 2023, 1:22 am
US agency believes COVID-19 likely escaped from Chinese lab — report
Based on unspecified new intelligence, US Energy Department now thinks lab leak theory most likely explanation for pandemic, but expresses ‘low confidence’ over finding
By AFP
Illustrative photo of carbon emissions from a power plant. (YouTube screenshot)
August 18, 2020, 2:19 pm
Israel, US seek to fund joint projects in energy cybersecurity
Companies, research institutes, and universities are called to apply for funding to develop tools and tech in the field of cybersecurity for critical energy infrastructure
By Shoshanna Solomon
US Assistant Secretary of State Francis Fannon, right, and Cyprus' Energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis talk during a meeting of Israeli, Cypriot and Greek experts working on boosting safety and security in offshore oil and gas drilling in Nicosia, Cyprus, February 5, 2020. (Petros Karadjias/AP)
February 5, 2020, 3:56 pm
US backs Cyprus amid tensions with Turkey over gas drilling
Official says Nicosia has right to develop energy resources; Israeli, Greek and Cypriot experts meeting to discuss offshore security
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)
December 22, 2019, 12:10 pm
US-Israel fund to invest $6.4 million in 7 joint clean-energy R&D projects
The BIRD Energy program has funded 49 projects with a joint government investment of $38 million since 2009
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2019, 8:06 pm
Huawei enters Israel’s solar power market, hours after quitting US
As Chinese telecom giant announces new move, deputy US energy secretary, in Israel, warns that data collected off solar panels could be used by Chinese ‘for other things’
By Sue Surkes and Shoshanna Solomon
William Bradford (YouTube screenshot)
September 1, 2017, 11:00 pm
Jewish Trump appointee who called Obama ‘Kenyan creampuff’ quits Energy Dep’t
William Bradford had also referred to Mark Zuckerberg as a ‘little arrogant self-hating Jew’
By JTA
Rick Perry on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
March 3, 2017, 12:56 am
Senate confirms Texas’s Rick Perry as energy secretary
Perry, who once pledged to nix the department, now promises to be an advocate
By AP
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
September 8, 2015, 8:15 am
Israel develops palm-sized flying nuclear detectors
US-funded micro-copters, invented in classified Dimona site, can distinguish natural and artificial radiation
By ToI Staff
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