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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Yosef Abramowitz

Yosef Abramowitz smashes tablets atop Jebel Musa in Egypt, thought by some to be the site of Mount Sinai, to symbolize the world’s lack of action on climate change, November 13, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 13, 2022, 9:53 pm
Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push
Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to lobby for faster action on climate change
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel (left) and solar energy entrepreneur Yosef Abromovitz in a video welcoming the new Biden-Harris US administration, January 20, 2021. (Screen capture)
January 20, 2021, 11:19 am
Environment minister welcomes Biden, Harris, with zero carbon pledge
Gila Gamliel congratulates incoming administration, declares Israel ‘a solar light unto the nations’ that joins US in bold move to achieve 100% carbon pollution-free electricity
By Sue Surkes
Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
July 27, 2020, 6:52 pm
Keep ‘unreliable, immoral’ Chevron Corp. out of Israel, activists urge MKs
Demanding debate on oil giant getting Noble Energy’s Mediterranean stakes, campaigners say Chevron avoiding $9.5b payout for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ spill, boding ill for Israel
By Sue Surkes
The women’s cooperative of the village of Mubuga which is set to benefit from productive uses of solar power as part of a social and economic development program. Dr. Hanna Klein (center), VP for Research and Project Development of Gigawatt Global is planning to switch the power to the village's flour mills from diesel to solar-powered electricity. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2020, 6:46 pm
Israel-linked solar firm to light up 87,000 homes and businesses in Burundi
Set on contracts for 10 renewable energy projects in Africa this year, Gigawatt Global follows up Rwanda mission with new 28-acre solar field in one of the world’s poorest nations
By Sue Surkes
Yikealo Beyene, left, an Eritrean refugee, with Joey Low, an American Jewish philanthropist, in Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2018. (Ron Kampeas via JTA)
January 11, 2018, 11:12 pm
As Israel threatens to deport African migrants, some US Jews push back
Joey Low, a son of Holocaust-era refugees who has given millions to Israeli causes, insists ’you can’t do something like this in the name of Jews and Israel’
By Ron Kampeas
Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
January 8, 2018, 12:12 am
Sarah Silverman’s birthday wishes to her nephew in the IDF bring out the haters
Comedian responds to comments attacking photo of 19-year-old in army uniform — ‘Let’s hope he’s part of the solution’
By JTA
Yosef I. Abramowitz
May 25, 2017, 7:48 am
Yosef I. Abramowitz
To save the climate, decarbonize Shabbat
Several ways world Jewry can take global environmental responsibility — it’s literally tikkun olam!
One of the dance troupes at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda performs on February 17, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 2, 2017, 11:17 am
In Rwanda, Israeli-inspired youth village is walking on sunshine
East Africa’s largest field of solar panels leases land from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, highlighting the rural area as a center of innovation
By Melanie Lidman
A view of a portion of Israel’s largest solar field, the 4.95MW Ketura Sun project at Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev (Photo credit: Courtesy Suntech)
June 2, 2016, 1:22 pm
Israel solar guru promises more plants in US, Africa
Yosef Abramowitz’s Energiya Global firm aims to supply 50 million people with renewable energy by 2025
By Shoshanna Solomon
Comedian Sarah Silverman (left) appears with sister Rabbi Susan Silverman on 'The View,' May 26, 2016. (YouTube)
May 27, 2016, 12:51 pm
Silverman sisters talk adoption on ‘The View’
Comic Sarah Silverman appears on talk show to promote rabbi sister Susan’s new book and organization, but claims much of the spotlight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Haifa's industrial area. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
December 15, 2015, 3:12 am
Despite accord, scant hope Israel finally warming to climate change fight
Environmentalists charge Jerusalem’s plan to battle global warming falls short of what other countries have vowed to do, and might not be implemented at all
By Ben Sales
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)
November 29, 2015, 7:46 am
Let it shine: Israel hypes solar at Paris talks
50-strong Israeli delegation to UN Climate Change Conference in Paris to show how blue and white tech can lower emissions
By Melanie Lidman
Gigawatt Global Co-Founders Yosef Abramowitz (L) and Chaim Motzen (R) with U2’s lead singer Bono at Gigawatt Global’s solar field in Rwanda (Courtesy)
October 6, 2015, 5:32 pm
Could Israel’s solar energy guru win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Yosef Abramowitz’s Rwandan solar field has inspired the Nobel committee – and singer Bono, too
By David Shamah
A pleased Yosef Abramowitz greets Bono at a Rwandan solar field this week (Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)
August 28, 2015, 4:55 pm
Bono anoints Israel’s solar power ‘king’
The U2 star congratulates Yosef Abramowitz on his renewable energy project in post-genocide Rwanda
By Jessica Steinberg
The solar field has more than 28,000 panels built in the shape of the African continent, on land leased from the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. (photo: Courtesy)
February 4, 2015, 11:15 pm
Israelis to dedicate largest solar field in East Africa
Gigawatt Global will formally open $23 million project to power 15,000 Rwandan homes
By Melanie Lidman
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