The desert landscape of the Negev desert in southern Israel, a 250-meter high tower - the equivalent of a 50-story building - stands out. This is the tower of the Ashalim solar plant, part of the effort by the Israeli authorities to produce, by 2020, 10% of its energy through renewable sources; today, this percentage is 2.5%.

Current Affairs

The economy of Israel is technologically advanced by global standards. As of 2015, Israel ranks in the top 20 nations in the world on the UN's Human Development Index, which places it in the category of "Very Highly Developed", allowing the country to enjoy a high standard of living comparable to many Western countries. The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a lethal nuclear-weapon's capacity, modern infrastructure rivaling many Western countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par with Silicon Valley.

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A hippopotamus escaped a safari located in Israel's central city of Ramat Gan on Wednesday evening.

The hippo took a few steps outside of the safari's gate and then backtracked inside, where a team of safari staff aided it to return to the hippo's proper location.

Conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century. The origins to the conflict can be traced back to Jewish immigration, and sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine between Jews and Arabs. It has been referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict", with the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 50 years.