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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

water management

Irrigating fields near the Gaza border in southern Israel, December 19, 2024. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 3, 2025, 9:13 am
Government amends Water Law to cut price for farmers
Agriculture Ministry, kibbutz and moshav movements, farmers’ federation, welcome move, which emphasizes speeding up the transition to using treated wastewater
By Sue Surkes
Displaced Palestinians sit by tents across from a garbage dump in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
August 13, 2024, 12:11 pm
Disease without borders: Massive piles of garbage in Gaza also threaten Israel
Experts say even drinking water in Ashdod could be contaminated by toxic buildup from hundreds of untreated trash heaps, after Gaza’s waste removal system paralyzed by war
By Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim
Heavy smoke rises from a large tank belonging to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company, after being hit by a rocket on May 12, 2021, near Ashkelon. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
December 12, 2023, 9:06 pm
Think tank: Give state environmental bodies more power and funds during war
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies warns decision makers of need to better prepare for potential disasters such as oil spills, damage to fuel tanks, emission of toxic materials
By Sue Surkes
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
Ashalim 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
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