Water in israel

Mekorot’s Shira Singer on the future of water infrastructure

Ahead of the national water company's 90th anniversary, Shira Singer explains why the tech revolution is a matter of life-saving stability and human empowerment.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH MEKOROT
Michal Livshits VP, Financial Planning & Business Analysis, Check Point & Shira Singer, Head of Digital Customer Experience, Mekorot
Shira Singer, Head of Digital Customer Experience in the Technology Division at Mekorot

Shira Singer pushes Israel’s water sector into a new technological era

Ahead of the Women Leaders' Summit 2026, Mekorot’s Head of Digital Customer Experience reflects on AI, digital transformation, and the challenge of modernizing a traditional industry

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH MEKOROT
An aerial view of the Kinneret. To the casual observer, the lake, also known as the Sea of Galilee, appears to be a rare environmental success story in an era of climate uncertainty.

Israel launches historic project to send desalinated water into Sea of Galilee

New Reverse Carrier system will send up to 5,000 cubic meters of desalinated water per hour into the lake by early summer, as officials cite climate pressures and wartime conditions.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(R to L) Daniel Soffer Mekorot Acting CEO, Eli Cohen Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Eli Lankri Mayor of Eilat, Andre Uzan Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mekorot to invest NIS 800 million in doubling water supply to Eilat

"This is enormous news that will drive growth across the entire region and surrounding communities," says Infrastructure and Energy Minister Eli Cohen

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel’s Emefcy teams up with NY water firm to enter Chinese market

Emefcy will be collaborating with RWL Water, founded by Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist Ronald Lauder, to offer a range of packaged treatment plant solutions in China.

APRIL 4, 2017BySHARON UDASIN
Eytan Levy, CEO of emefcy.

Did the Weizmann Institute team up with Paris Hilton?

Bizarre April Fool's video joke turns out to really be an ad campaign for SodaStream.

MARCH 29, 2017ByAMY SPIRO
Paris Hilton

A multi-pronged approach to water economy innovation

“It will be a beautiful pond with biological life that will clean the water.”

MARCH 17, 2017ByANAT LEVY
The Jewish National Fund has been helping to build Israel’s reservoirs for several years. The number of such reservoirs is now more than 250

Tropical Fish and Flowers in the Desert?

MARCH 7, 2017ByROOTING FOR A GREEN ISRAEL
The Jerusalem Post

Israel is first in wastewater reuse, but Palestinians are last

Water and wastewater management cannot and need not wait for a political settlement, and the public, must demand from our governments to act now.

FEBRUARY 19, 2017ByCLIVE LIPCHIN
Where is this pipe leading? A water pipe near Hebron last year

Should we make the desert bloom?

Is the desert ‘nothingness that needs to be conquered’ or a unique environment we should protect? The long ecological history of the Negev might hold the key to the answer.

FEBRUARY 16, 2017BySHIKMA ZAARUR / ZAVIT
The Negev desert

UN official: Israeli-Palestinian water talks important for two-state solution

Palestinians and Israelis agreed Sunday to Joint Water Committee activities after a six-year freeze, hoping to update the area's aging infrastructure.

JANUARY 16, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
MAJ.-GEN. YOAV (POLY) MORDECHAI (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh after agreeing to renew activities of the Joint Water Committee.

Israeli farmers protest government’s agriculture policies, water prices

"The supermarket chains are greedy and the farmers and consumers are paying the price."

DECEMBER 19, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Farmers gather in front of the Knesset on Monday to protest government agricultural policies

JNF-USA water expedition exposes global professionals to Israeli expertise, innovation

"It’s a miracle that Israel has solved a 2,000-year-old problem."

DECEMBER 7, 2016BySHARON UDASIN
PARTICIPANTS IN the JNF’s tour of water management solutions pose during a visit on Monday to the Sorek desalination plant near Rishon Lezion, the largest such facility in the world.

Israeli researchers estimating effects of estrogens in water supply

The effects on humans of estrogens excreted in the urine that washes into rivers and sewage systems is not certain, but environmentalists worry about harmful effects on male fish.

NOVEMBER 20, 2016ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Water