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Israel will soon commence building a 150-kilometer (93-mile) undersea electricity cable from Ashkelon to Haifa.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Israel is to commence building a 150-kilometer (93-mile) undersea electricity cable that will run along the Mediterranean coast from Ashkelon in the south to Haifa in the north.

The cable will transmit electricity produced by solar energy fields in Israel’s southern cities across the country. Connecting Israel’s electricity network to power grids in Europe via Cyprus and Greece will follow.

Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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