Yavne, Israel News

Cleared for publication: Gregory Rabinowitz, 56, a taxi driver whose body was found in May near the community of Gan Yavne, east of Ashdod, was killed in a terror attack.

Jeannette Epstein, 93, of Burns St., New Bedford, died Saturday, July 4, 2009. She was the wife of the late Saul Epstein.

A Messianic Jew who owns two bakery shops recently petitioned the Supreme Court against the Chief Rabbinate and two local rabbinates, which she claimed revoked her businesses' kashrut certificates because of her religious beliefs.

Yavne, Israel-based companya s new 100-kW hybrid solar thermal gas turbine flower plant makes concentrating solar power possible for the first time at a local level, claims company.

A hovercraft designed to evacuate wounded soldiers from an urban battlefield, an unmanned helicopter and a kamikaze drone will be unveiled to the public on Monday at Israel's official pavilion at the 48th Paris Air Show.

Concentrating Solar Power plants are an amazing, wonderful, renewable energy technology, as long as the sun is shining.

OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: "I heard voices, I turned around to look, and saw a group of Israeli settlers assaulting my brother Hammad," says Abdallah Wahadin, 82, a Palestinian farmer from Beit Ummar near the southern Occupied West Bank city of Hebron.

The secular kibbutzim have it right. Since the earliest days, these kibbutzim have arranged to celebrate Shavuot with special ceremonies based on Torah laws.

Professor David Faiman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev with the solar array in the background.

Talkbacks for this article: 0 Police have asked the Shin Bet to help in a murder investigation opened on Monday after the body of a taxi driver was found near his abandoned cab in Gan Yavne.

The scene could be out of the Haggada - a group of rabbis sitting on the floor in a circle through the night, probably reclining on pillows, scrolls scattered about them, engaging in heated disputation until the pale light outside signals that a new day is upon them.

Yavne, a hazy industrial corridor in central Israel, seems at first glance an improbable haven for geothermal technology.

Shimon Peres, the President of Israel helped launch a new solar farm at Kibbutz Yavne this week.

Concentrated photovoltaic solar company ZenithSolar of Ness Ziona launched its first commercial generating system on Sunday in the presence of President Shimon Peres and government ministers at Kvutzat Yavne.

The Health Ministry was forced to close Herzliya's South Acadia Beach once again on Thursday due to sewage flowing from the municipal sewage system into the sea, despite repeated warnings and hearings for senior municipality officials.

By Ari Rabinovitch Kvutzat Yavne, Israel - An energy company in Israel plans to launch a solar farm this month using new technology it says can produce cheap and efficient electricity while supplying hot water to homes.

Israel is concerned that the sale of the large American defense conglomerate Textron to a group of businessmen from the United Arab Emirates will jeopardize deals with Israeli defense industries.

The masses who thronged to the beaches during the warm Passover holiday did not wait for the official opening of the bathing season in two weeks' time, although no lifeguards are on duty, and the toilets on most beaches are still closed.

The entrance to Casa Shalom, the country's foremost center for Marrano-Anusim studies, is almost as well concealed as the secret Jews it researches.

A growing number of Chinese-made rockets are being smuggled into the Gaza Strip from Sinai and fired at Israel, a senior police sapper told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.