Israel has a history of developing solar heating, with a law to have solar heat collectors for hot water on every building, with the largest solar heating company in the world in the late 80's until 1999 called Luz, and today with two of the largest solar heating energy companies in the world both near the city of Beit Shemesh (meaning in Hebrew: The House of the Sun): Sollel and Luz II. Also a large portion of the Weitzman institute consists of one of the largest solar collector tower and basin in the world.
Solar cooking is quite common, but in some places like the city of Eilat, there is no need to do anything, and frequently every summer, when temperatures reach 40 degrees celsius and more, the news shows how people fry an egg on a car's roof.
English resources on solar ovens in Israel
- Israeli solar cooker family in Israeli news This is the family that brought it to Israel from Switzerland.
- same story as it reached treehugger
- Rachel Andres, Israeli woman who had solar oven intiative for Darfur women
- Solar cooking lecture at Kibbutz Lotan among other news from solar cooking world.
- Kaditha Jewish religious community solar oven cooking with Palestinians
- the Lotan ecology center
- Israeli Jews and Arab Bedouins join in solar cooking project
- Angry founder of Bustan, at Israeli government attitude and actions towards the Bedouins, she founded this grass-roots organization
- Jewish worldwide support for Darfur Solar Oven project: Synagogues, temples (synagogues of the Jewish-Reform movement) and other Jewish organizations in the US, and world-wide supporting the project.
- boy invents solar oven at camp
- Israeli research institute developing solar oven and other solar technologies
- World Trade Center engineer to build sustainable housing (with solar ovens) project in Israel
- giant solar ovens Not really part of this site, but actually these are just very large solar ovens. One of the biggest is in Israel, others on this list were created by Israeli companies.
Hebrew resources on solar ovens
- Using a car window cover as a solar oven panel Great invention!
- Making a solar oven from a Pizza cover
- some recipies and the claim that solar ovens are originally from Switzerland.
- Magama Yeruka site Grass roots organization started by students to help world's ecology.
- Israeli government Ministry of Ecology calls for Israeli citizens to use solar ovens, and to teach about them at schools. Also tells about the Weizman institute solar heating project, which reached 10,000 times the radiance at earth.