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During the Great Recession a few years back, it was one of the few industries

that was continuing to add jobs and put people on even in the depths of, you know,

some of the worst economic conditions we'd seen in my lifetime.

The solar industry is larger than the coal industry,

and it's much more geographically diverse.

When you're talking about a growth industry, and especially one where there is

so much infrastructure that's going to have to be replaced, modernized, or upgraded,

there is going to be a huge number of jobs in this sector.

Particularly as you see the growth and the movement of the solar industry more squarely

into the rooftop markets, working in the building sector, you're going to see all

of these trade professionals that can't be outsourced to India or China

or some other country that are having jobs here in the U.S. and continuing to, you know,

make solar a more and more valuable part of the overall economy.

Training's a big piece of what we do here at the Clean Tech Center.

Our students come from lots and lots of different backgrounds.

The training kind of ratchets up depending on what it is you're trying to do.

There are, you know, a lot of jobs in solar that are fairly straightforward construction jobs:

pull panels off of a truck, move them onto a rack, bolt them down, connect the wire.

And then we also see much more specialized jobs in the tech sector, in meteorology, and finance.

Solar is an interesting field in that it doesn't neatly fit into a lot of political boxes.

So I've got, you know, friends on the left and friends on the right that both feel

that renewable energy, and solar energy in particular, is something that they must support

because of the job creation, because of the economic benefits,

because of the environmental benefits.

The technology genie is not going back in the bottle.

I see this as being the predominant area in the energy sector for employment in the U.S.

For more infomation >> How solar energy is becoming a non-partisan issue - Duration: 1:49.

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Artificial Intelligence is helping babies develop language - Duration: 2:08.

When a child doesn't receive natural language patterns

and natural language social interactions that are actually meaningful,

we see that it has a really devastating impact on development of language and learning to read.

What the human brain needs is experience with the patterns of language

from ages six months to 12 months.

It doesn't care if it's patterns that are spoken or patterns that are signed.

This device was conceived to be given to young babies

in this critical brain developmental period, and that's what makes it unique.

There is a robot that's embodied.

It first engages the baby's attention, looks at the baby, and when the baby's looking

at it back, it turns to a signing avatar who then begins

to have a conversation with the baby.

The language is only given to the baby if the baby is engaged

and in a pro-social, interested state.

In the most recent pilot of 23 babies,

all 23 babies had sustained visual attention for at least four minutes.

And for a six to eight-month-old baby, that is a very long attention span.

All 23 babies began to show us their having picked

up the rudimentary conversational structure that's universal to all world language.

We have every reason to believe that this type of technology can begin to be adapted

to devices that are in children's homes.

We also hope for this technology to be used all over the world.

For more infomation >> Artificial Intelligence is helping babies develop language - Duration: 2:08.

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Robotics training is helping underserved communities - Duration: 2:16.

So many times where we hear about robots taking over new jobs, so being able to be in control

and troubleshoot the robot was something that I really, really enjoyed.

One of my parishioners came to me.

She came to me with the idea of workforce development in robotics, and she had gotten

that idea from Focus Hope out of Detroit.

There was an employee of JPMorgan Chase and he said, "You should bring that here."

And so we did, and we received our first $50,000 grant.

We train residents of the Chicago Housing Authority in robotic controls,

and we create a plastic utensil product, and then the revenues from that go back

as reinvestment into the Woodlawn community.

We've aleady trained 40 individuals on robotic controls.

They started with an idea of creating a robotics training program, but the goal was really

to create opportunities for people to get into good jobs and have a good quality of life.

So we have a shared vision.

Workforce development programs are an absolute key, a necessity, within a community

because there's so many times where students have the want to actually learn,

but they may not have the financial ability to attend colleges or universities.

BSD industries is an opportunity for individuals who lack the financial resources

to learn a new trade and become financially stable

within their communities and an asset to their families.

In 2017, we were really impressed with the early results from the pilot

that the Brazier Foundation had launched, and so we went big.

We made a two-year, $500,000 grant to significantly scale the program.

We're so excited to see how the robotics training program grows what their graduates go

on to do.

And if they want to expand to other industries, we think they're onto a model that really works.

For more infomation >> Robotics training is helping underserved communities - Duration: 2:16.

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Channel 10: Israel is a Safe Haven for Child Sexual Abusers [Turn on English Captions] - Duration: 12:20.

A new series of reports by Emanuel Elbaz Phelps – Fugitives.

Murderers, pedophiles, drug dealers and war criminals come to Israel and find a safe haven.

They do this because they are Jewish and by virtue of the Law of Return which lets almost every Jew become an Israeli citizen.

In order to escape the law in their own countries, they settle here and manage to operate freely, often under a new identity.

Over the past few weeks we have closely documented them.

Fugitives, the first chapter. Research: Ron Cohen and Ma'ayan Ben Tura.

"FUGITIVES"

[Reporter] Ahalan (HI) Shalom. [Woman] Shalom

How are you?

I have to provide delivery confirmation to Chaim Yosef Karo.

What's happened? What's he done?

I was 4 or 5 years old

He lived right next to the door of my own home.

I don't have an address. I don't have anything. Why? Has he anything? What law suit? What?

From the United States. Something.

A Jewish criminal is welcomed here with open arms.

He's free and he's dangerous.

Now he's working here at some job. Some hall here, something.

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[Reporter] Does Yosef still work here? [Man] What Yosef [Reporter] Karo

[Reporter] Yosef Karo [Secretary] Yes?

Does he still work here?

[Woman] He left here, joined that cult, of that Jesus… [Reporter] OK [Woman] At [Beep]

If he ran away but there's no extradition order for him,

Then he lives his nice life.

[Reporter] What, new to the neighborhood? [Karo] Me? Six months, something like that. [Reporter] Ah…nice. [Karo] I used to….new

[Reporter] What's your name? [Karo] Yosef.

When all the borders changed, were opened, it became very easy to move from country to country.

To escape from one country to another and it was the criminals who were the first to realize this.

There are Jewish criminals who come here and

because of the Law of Return, their Judaism, they are given citizenship.

And they are wanted in their own countries.

I don't want to be the country that gives them safe haven.

I don't want to cooperate with someone who has committed an offence.

And for the cost of a plane ticket, he bought himself immunity and a new life.

He ran away from Los Angeles

After a few years we heard that he was in Holon or Bnei Brak.

The question is how exactly, what to say to him, if you call him?

[On screen title: Tzvika Fleishman – Victims liaison at JCW] We have to find something. If he gives the number then he gives the number.

If he doesn't give the number then we'll have to find another way.

In Shana's living room in one of Jerusalem's suburbs

JCW members meet every week.

This is like an intelligence unit that tracks male and female pedophiles.

At least 50 people who already had a criminal record for sexual offences against children in the United States

and who were being investigated, came to Israel.

With laptop computers, employees and volunteers

in the Jewish Community Watch organization

work to warn ultra-orthodox communities in Israel and the world

about pedophiles who could be in their midst and endangering children.

I really, really want to find how many people in the community know him,

[On screen title: Shana Aaronson, COO, JCW] And who'll be able to give a bit more direction.

[Man] What community does he belong to? [Shana] Habad.

On the Wall of Shame dozens of pictures and names of men suspected of forbidden acts.

Those convicted of sex offences and also others who completed their sentences and were released.

Do you have private investigators who you work with?

We do but, apart from that, we also have connections inside the community

which sometimes helps us more than anything.

Shana, Tzviki and the organization's other managers from Brooklyn

Have already been exposed to some of the worst cases

To the most horrendous things that make every parents stomach turn.

No family, he has no children, wife, and things like that? He's alone here? [Woman] He's alone, yes.

But one story, that at first seemed like any other file they deal with,

developed into an especially bad "thriller".

A perverted script, with many chapters, came together into an especially frightening and enraging document.

[On screen title: Family name: Karo. First Name Jimmy Julius. Born 1971. From: The United States] "I was aged 4 or 5"

He lived right next to the door of my own home.

To my eyes he was a nice neighbor

And he'd come, for example, to meals.

He would invite me to his home and I would go with him.

Because, as a little girl, my parents know and they know what's happening there

So it's OK to go there.

"S"'s fate changed some 15 years ago

When a new neighbor came to a religious neighborhood in the center of the country.

This manipulative man, then about 20 years old,

offered to help a pregnant mother with the other girls in her home.

I would play there.

It wasn't exactly "games" what went on there

eh… but as a girl, I didn't understand what was going on.

"If you don't do this then you won't get a cookie",

"If you tell anyone, you won't get a cookie",

everything was connected to cookies.

I was raped, I was abused,

I suffered everything possible.

"S"'s long lasting suffering only stopped when this clever pedophile

was arrested for an attack on another girl.

My mother came to me and she asked me

"Did he do things to you? Did he touch you?"

I immediately asked "Why? Why do you ask?"

Then she told me that he was in jail.

[On screen title: 2002 - Karo is sentenced to 5 years in jail for sexual offences against minors]

[D, a citizen who identified Karo in Israel and reported his presence here.]

[2016: It is discovered that Jimmy Karo immigrated to Israel after he was indicted in 2000 for an assault on a young girl in the United States].

My life will never be without pain, nightmares, fears, post traumatic suppression and anxiety.

I relive the consequences every day.

And all this happened how…?

This neighbor escaped to Israel, made Aliyah and lived free in our country.

He harms many children and families.

If there was a law in Israel that he couldn't enter the country,

but the chances of this happening are, it seems, are very slim.

Almost 18 years have passed since Yosef Karo, a wanted man, escaped from the United States.

The authorities there have given up and stopped searching.

(Reporter) "Ahalan" (HI) "Shalom" (Woman) "Shalom"

"How are you?"

"I have to provide delivery confirmation to Chaim Yosef Karo."

"I don't have anything to do with him my dear. Anything."

"He left more than a year ago." "What's he doing now? You don't know?"

"Now he's working here. At some job in some hall."

Reporter] "Does Yosef still work here?" [Man] "What Yosef" [Reporter] "Karo"

[Reporter] Shalom, Yosef Karo? [Secretary] Yes?

Does he still work her? [Woman] He left here, joined that cult, of that Jesus…

[Reporter] OK [Woman] At [Beep]

[Reporter] What, new to the neighborhood? [Karo] Me? Six months, something like that. [Reporter] Ah…nice.

[Reporter] I live at ….. Street [Karo] So do I.

[Reporter] Ah…yes? [Karo] Yes. Building A. [Reporter] Ah…yes?

[Reporter] What's your name? [Karo] Yosef

So here he is, the serial pedophile from the United States.

Jimmy Julius Karo listed on the data bases of Oregon and Interpol.

Chaim Yosef Karo on the Identity Card issued him by the State of Israel.

[Reporter] Wow, he's so cute, Ya Allah! [Karo] But he doesn't know how to behave with people.

"We found him walking his dog next to his house in the north of the country."

The view from the window…

A kindergarten.

[News anchor, Tamar] Amazing and worrying, shalom Emanuel. [Emanuel] Shalom Tamar

So when we try to understand the root of the problem, what do we find?

Look, the Law of Return has one very clear caveat, if a person is a candidate for Aliyah and has a criminal past and could endanger the Israeli public

then he isn't entitled to immigrate to Israel. But, the question is, does the State of Israel carry out all the checks

it can to examine the risk that person entails.

The answer is no. [The State] doesn't check everything it can with the authorities

and here, in this instance, a simple Google search could have prevented the entry of a dangerous pedophile into Israel.

At the end of the day the question is what's the price that we, as a society, must pay for the right of Jews to make Aliyah to Israel?

[Tamar] Emanuel – thank you very much [Emanuel] Thank you Tamar