Yosef Abramowitz is an

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environmentalist, president and CEO of Energiya Global Capital as well as co-founder of the Arava Power Company.

Biography

Abramowitz was born in 1964 in the United States, to a

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family. He lived in Israel as a child from 1969 to 1972, before returning to

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. While living in

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, he attended the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston, and graduated in 1980 from Hebrew College Prozdor and in 1982 from Brookline High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Public Policy from

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in 1986, where he studied under Elie Wiesel,

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and Hillel Levine, and a

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in Magazine Journalism from

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in 1991, which he attended on a

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. He is married to Rabbi

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with whom he had five children. Yosef Abramowitz was President of the Arava Power Company (2006–2013) and then CEO and President of Energiya Global (2011–) founding both companies with partners David Rosenblatt of

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and Ed Hofland of Kibbutz Ketura. In 2006, he moved from

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to Kibbutz Ketura.

Energiya Global Capital

Abramowitz is the president and CEO of an investment platform Energiya Global Capital which finances green energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

References

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