Power

In double trouble: Iran’s oil crisis – opinion

Given that the Islamic Republic’s lifeblood – oil – is being squeezed, it should learn from history that collapse always begins with a warning sign such as this one

A Satellite image shows a likely oil spill covering dozens of square kilometers near Iran’s Kharg Island, earlier this month.
Geothermal power plant.

Cheap energy – and earthquakes: The new power plant driving Britain crazy

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 8, 2023

How Israel can use soft power without compromising security - opinion

A column of smoke rises during multiple explosions in the early hours of the morning, in Caracas, Venezuela, January 3, 2026 in this screen grab obtained from video obtained by Reuters.

Trump says US captured President Maduro amid strikes, Venezuela declares national emergency


Will China dominate the future?

If so, what can like-minded democracies do to compete?

CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Beijing in 2018. The book warns about democracies getting too close to China

China’s efforts to establish regional hegemony - comment

With its re-emergence as the dominant economy in the region, China has widened its claims on features in the South China Sea and islands in the East China Sea.

OFFICIALS APPLAUD Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March.

Why do western diplomats want to ‘engage’ far-right abroad, not at home?

The engagement model has long been pushed by diplomats in western chanceries. This is because it sounds good.

White supremacists clash with counter protesters at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017

Israeli firms are to compete in New York's new clean energy competition

"NYPA's collaboration with Israeli technology companies will yield mutual benefit by introducing new solutions for commercial usage in large scale electric utilities."

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a daily briefing following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, July 13, 2020.

Cause of Israel's near nationwide blackout unknown

The Israel Electric Corporation confirmed the cause of the outages "was definitively not a cyberattack."

Israel Electric Corporation

Leaving her mark

A conversation with Sigal Regev Rosenberg


Program for sustainability in Palestinian energy gets $63m. in funds

The program calls for sustained financing in order to support long-term planning, interventions in infrastructure and policy reform measures.

Israeli engineer stands in the new electrical substation near the West Bank city of Jenin

Israeli power cuts to West Bank ends after Palestinians pay debt

Israel Electric Corp (IEC) began sporadic, three-hour power cuts on Dec. 18 to press for payment of some $519 million owed by the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO).

Israel Electric company HQ 370

Terra Incognita: Syria’s Kurds, Jewish suffering - history of powerless

Kurds have been hammered into the same stark choices, betrayed both by empires and by the social movements they adopted.

KURDISH AND ARAB protesters chant slogans against Turkish President Tayip Erdogan in Qamishli, Syria, Wednesday.

Israel to construct first waste-to-energy power plant

Foreign companies will be invited to participate in the project, which the ministries forecast will be one of several to be constructed in the coming years.

A worker operates a crane lifting garbage for incineration at a waste-to-energy plant in Kaili, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou province, China June 2, 2019. Picture taken June 2, 2019 through a glass window