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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

Aviv Lavie

Aviv Lavie

Tomer Aharon, chief operating officer of Batte-Re, with the black powder that is created at the end of the lithium battery recycling process (Aviv Lavie)
November 14, 2024, 11:36 am
Pioneering Israeli company is recycling electric vehicles’ lithium batteries
Electric cars offer a green solution but come with batteries packed with toxic materials; a new lithium battery recycling plant in southern Israel aims to address this problem
By Aviv Lavie
Smoke rises from a fire which broke out from missiles fired from Lebanon at a forest outside the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 24, 2024. (David Cohen/ Flash90)
October 16, 2024, 7:14 am
Head out to nature, or stay near a bomb shelter? The Israeli Sukkot dilemma
As the Jewish state’s ultimate hiking holiday approaches, millions debate whether to get fresh air and risk being caught by enemy rockets – as this writer did
By Aviv Lavie
This undated photo shows Palestinian Water Authority workers repairing the Gazan side of a pipeline leading water from Israel during the country's war with Hamas. (Courtesy)
June 5, 2024, 6:09 pm
How Israel worked to renew Gaza’s water supply amid the war, with help from locals
Despite ministers’ early bravado and international accusations, Jerusalem went to great lengths to fix enclave’s ‘screwed-up’ infrastructure after October 7 damage, say officials
By Aviv Lavie
A fabric showing the insignia of the Israel Police found in rubble from the Sderot police station that was moved into a nature reserve north of the city, February 2024 (Courtesy)
February 11, 2024, 11:35 am
Wreckage of Sderot police station destroyed on Oct. 7 found dumped in nature reserve
Order was given to demolish police station after it was overrun by terrorists; police equipment found abandoned in wilderness as part of growing wave of construction waste crimes
By Aviv Lavie
An undated photo of a bus running in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. (Tel Aviv Municipality)
September 11, 2023, 3:45 pm
As liberal cities expand Shabbat bus service, head-on crash with coalition may loom
Local officials say more than just young partyers are taking buses to and from Tel Aviv, and are girding for a fight should the Haredi-backed government try to run it off the road
By Aviv Lavie
Rain in the northern coastal city of Netanya, February 19 2021. (Flash90)
April 5, 2021, 7:01 pm
Winter carved country into two regions: Above-average rain, and drought
Climate change wreaking havoc, says expert, with winter preceded by sizzling summer, hottest September on record, completely dry October; most coastal rain fell in 4 large bursts
By Aviv Lavie
(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents as they participated in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
September 16, 2020, 6:50 pm
Israel-UAE peace key to averting global climate disaster — Tel Aviv U. scholar
In ‘The Power of Deserts,’ Prof. Dan Rabinowitz envisions a new Mideast paradigm to save the planet — one that is unexpectedly playing out today under new normalization ties
By Aviv Lavie
Swifts at the Western Wall (Amir Balaban/The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
May 12, 2020, 5:26 pm
Migratory swifts put on ancient aerial show at a Western Wall emptied of people
Jerusalem Old City’s colony, populated each spring by birds arriving from Africa, dates back 2,000 years, is likely one of world’s oldest
By Aviv Lavie
Dr Sivan Lacker and Ashkar Ginossar at the Yotvata Dairy in southern Israel. (Lior Nordman)
February 11, 2020, 3:35 am
In first pilot of its kind, Israeli dairy won’t separate calves from mothers
Yotvata project will allow female calves to stay with mothers until weaning — but male calves will still be separated, sent off for fattening and slaughter
By Aviv Lavie
Power-generating solar panels on the rooftop of a house in central Israel. (Chen Leopold / Flash 90
November 2, 2019, 5:49 pm
Israeli homeowners are ready to storm the solar frontier
After years of lagging behind other Western countries, Israel’s solar electricity production is looking to private homeowners to heat things up
By Aviv Lavie
Plastic waste discarded on a beach in Israel. (Screenshot)
September 29, 2019, 1:44 pm
Rabbis join call to cut single-use plastic, starting with religious holidays
Ben-Gurion University student persuades 30 religious leaders to sign letter citing dangers of plastics to health and environment as Israelis gear up to celebrate Jewish New Year
By Aviv Lavie
Untreated sewage flowing in the Kidron Stream in the Judean Desert following several days of heavy rain, November 27, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 22, 2019, 5:35 am
Israel, Palestinians eye smooth waters with historic cooperation on sewage
For years, Jerusalem wastewater has been flowing as is to Dead Sea, with politics blocking a solution. Now one of the region’s worst environmental hazards can finally be treated
By Aviv Lavie
Israel environment ministry workers spray water into the sewers under a commercial area trying to disperse explosive gas that leaked from the Haifa Bay chemical refineries, May 18, 2019. (Ministry of Environmental Protection)
May 19, 2019, 8:20 pm
The chemical refineries in Haifa: One leak too many?
Explosive gas was discovered over the weekend leaking from a pipe directly under city streets, only 500 meters from homes. The new mayor has signaled she won’t tolerate it
By Aviv Lavie
A screen capture of a doctored video released by Hamas that falsely claimed to show an anti-tank missile attack that killed an Israeli man, on May 5, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
May 6, 2019, 8:06 pm
Hebrew media spreads fake Hamas video claiming to show deadly missile strike
Footage shows a train crossing just before a missile is launched across the border, destroying what appears to be a vehicle far in the distance. But no trains were running
By Aviv Lavie
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