Israeli desert yields a harvest of energy

New York Times: Arriving at this bone-dry kibbutz in the Arava Desert late one afternoon in August 2006, Yosef Abramowitz, a social activist, Jewish educator and multimedia entrepreneur from Boston, opened the door of his van and was hit by a wall of heat. "The sun was setting, but it was still burning," he said. "I remember the sensation." Later, unable to sleep, he rose about 5 a.m. and stepped outside as the sun was coming up over the mountains of Jordan. "It was so hot already," he recalled. "I said to myself,...

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