Bar-Ilan University announced this week the launch of its new campus research facility the Center for Energy and Sustainability, and its Multidisciplinary School for Sustainability and the Environment in the presence of Energy Minister Karine Elharrar, and officials from the Israel Electric Company (IEC) and the Doral Group. The university will invest hundreds of millions of shekels over the next ten years into training and technological research projects in and outside of Israel to develop hydrogen-based drones, clean energy fuel cells, green walls, and sodium-based batteries, among others. “As David Ben Gurion put it, security is energy,” said MK Elharrar. “We need a combination of different types of energy and the crisis in Europe shows that we can’t give up on any of them at the moment. We must lead the world of energy and an institute like the one inaugurated at…
