Power to the People? Energy Battle in Israel Pits Firms vs. Public Interest |
By David KrantzNEW YORK (Feb. 4, 2011) — This month, the Knesset will make one of the most important votes in its history. After all, it’s not every day that a country has the opportunity to revolutionize life for its people. Of course, it’s not every day that a country discovers more than $300 billion in the ground. But after finding some of the largest natural-gas deposits in the world just off of its coast, that’s the situation in which Israel finds itself. The Tamar and Leviathan gas fields can change life for every Israeli.
David Krantz is the president and chairperson of Aytzim: Ecological Judaism.
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