Felice Friedson
“I have but one ideological ax to grind, which is the climate,” Abramowitz says
Yosef Israel Abramowitz, 56, an American immigrant to Israel and well-known environmentalist, announced last week that he will run for the position of president of Israel.
A graduate of Boston University in Jewish public policy and a Wexner graduate fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, Abramowitz has been a pivotal player in putting the solar energy industry on the map in Israel and Africa. He is is president and CEO of investment platform Energiya Global Capital, which finances the development of green energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa, and co-founder of the Arava Power Company at Kibbutz Ketura in Israel’s Arava Desert. He has been named by CNN as one of the planet’s top green pioneers and was nominated by 12 African countries and Belize for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.