By Paul Shindman
Ornithology was the last thing on my mind when I pulled into the parking lot at Kibbutz Yotvata’s highway oasis in the Arava desert. We were on our way home from a vacation in Eilat and with four kids under the age of 10, we definitely needed the pit stop.
It was around 11 [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Seven Israeli ‘cleantech’ companies came to Toronto last month looking for potential angels to invest in their low-emissions power technology. They hailed from Eilat and the surrounding Eilot region, an area that’s offering Israeli companies various incentives to develop solar, wind and biomass technologies.
The Toronto event was organized by the Renewable Energy [...]

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by Adam Michael Segal
When a friend suggested a kibbutz as a fun and inexpensive option for an extended trip, a very important question rushed into John Carson’s head.
 What on earth is a kibbutz?
 “I had never heard the word before,” says Carson, a Toronto resident originally from England.
 “And all I knew about Israel was what I [...]

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