Boycotters of Israel are ‘classical anti-Semites in modern garb,’ Netanyahu says
(JNS.org) Boycotters of Israel are “classical anti-Semites in modern garb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of leaders visiting Jerusalem with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday.
“I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing, is to have people on the soil of Europe talking about the boycott of Jews,” Netanyahu said. “I think that is an outrage. That is something we are re-encountering. In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses and today, they call for the boycott of the Jewish state.”
Israel’s prowess in the high-tech sector can help the Jewish state overcome the economic boycott threat, Netanyahu said, describing that the heads of international high-tech companies he has met with “all want the same three things: Israeli technology, Israeli technology, and Israeli technology.”
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Jewish Olympian Charlie White, partner Meryl Davis win ice dancing gold in Sochi
(JNS.org) Jewish-American figure skater Charlie White and his partner Meryl Davis won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics ice dancing competition on Monday.
Davis and White finished with a score of 195.52, about 4.5 points ahead of Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won the silver medal. Russia’s Nikita Katsalapov and Elena Ilinykh won bronze.
White and Davis’s gold medal is America’s first gold in ice dancing. The pair skated to the music from “Sheherazade.”
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Israeli-Dutch partnership financing solar plant in Rwanda
(JNS.org) An Israeli company is partnering with a Dutch solar developer to finance the building of an 8.5-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in Rwanda. The plant would increase Rwanda’s power generation capacity by about 8 percent.
Israel’s Energiya Global Capital provided the initial funding and strategic consultation to Dutch company Gigawatt Global Coöperatief, which closed on $23.7 million in financing for the plant. Other investors and funders include Norwegian development finance institution Norfund, Norwegian-headquartered Scatec Solar, Dutch development bank FMO, and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund.
The plant, expected to begin operating this summer, will be built about 60 kilometers from Kigali, Rwanda, on land belonging to the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village for youths orphaned due to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
“This first-ever utility-scale solar field in Rwanda—and all of East Africa—represents the future of energy for developing countries and for island nations,” said Yosef Abramowitz, CEO of Energiya Global Capital.
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