This month IDE Technologies, an Israel company completed the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant in the world near Hadera reports Israel 21c.
The plant will produce 127 million cubic metres of water each year which is one sixth of Israel’s needs.
But it’s not just Israel that benefits from this technology. IDE has built 400 desalination plants in 40 countries producing 2m cubic metres per day.
Israel, like many arid countries, faces a crisis of water. Its neighbours also suffer and there is great potential for social and political tensions with the Palestinians, Jordanian and Syrians.
Such plants have environmental critics. Water conservation is important but Israel cannot rely only on its aquifers and the Sea of Galilee. Over extraction is also an environmental issue.
This is just one example of the importance of Israeli technology. Israel punches well above its weight when it comes to many areas of technology, science and medicine.
So maybe all those boycotters and BDS hypocrites will actually have reason to thank Israeli technology in the future when climate change kicks in and Northern Europe has its water crisis. As they say in these parts: ‘think on’.