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If I die tonight

Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Woke up this morning alive, everything is fine. I guess the curse didn’t work. Here’s the blog post from last night:
I’m going to bed very soon, and I’m still alive. If I die tonight in my sleep its because a ‘religious’ man cursed me in Jerusalem today. As my friend and I drove past him, [...]

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Barak unplugged

Posted in Ehud Olmert, Iran, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Sderot, tagged Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Israeli cabinet, Kadima on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There is nothing I can report to you from our one-and-a-half hour meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at our offices today, as it was agreed beforehand that the briefing would be entirely off record.
What I can do however, is to give you my impressions of Barak at this point in time, and the thing [...]

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Water wars

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged desalination, drinking water, irrigation, Israel, Renewable energy, water, water contamination, water resources, water security on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Next week, the Standards Institution of Israel (SII) is hosting an international conference with the relatively innocuous and convoluted title of “Crisis Management of Water Utilities – ISO/TC 224 WG 7.”
ISO stands for International Standards Organization, TC stands for Technical Committee number 224, and WG 7 is Working Group seven. In simpler terms, what is [...]

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Drink tap water, trust me

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged desalinated water, drinking water, Israel, Mekorot, tap water on June 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Israelis, especially in the south, have been drinking desalinated water from the tap for the past two years, but increasingly, that trend is not catching on in the rest of the country as the perception that tap water is unhealthy continues to take hold. The desalination plant in Ashkelon produces much of that region’s [...]

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Mr. Security and Mr. Politics

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Iran, Kadima, Shaul Mofaz on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz has been grilled by the local press over the past few days for saying in an interview that should Iran continue developing its nuclear program, Israel will attack it. Some commentators even went as far as accusing him of putting his political primary race, which hasn’t even been announced yet, above [...]

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Smoke free anniversary

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged passive smoking, Smoking on June 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Last year towards the end of May I stopped smoking. To be totally truthful, I’ve had one-and-a-half cigarettes since last May.
The first one was in Istanbul.

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Looking for a few green men

Posted in Energy and oil dependency, Environmental issues, Global warming and climate change, Israel, Renewable energy, Science and Technology, Uncategorized, tagged algae, Alternative energy, biofuel, cleantech, crude oil, desalination, energy, energy farming, energy-producing crops, food prices, greentech, Isaac Berzin, oil dependency, oil prices, world food crisis on June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Israel can lead the world in alternative energy technologies and policies because it has the right mix of experience with desert farming, water desalination, and high technology, and a looming energy shortage, says Isaac Berzin, a maverick scientist and entrepreneur hoping to establish an institute for alternative energy policy in Israel that will guide the [...]

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