Green slush arrives in Israel, and all is good

When I first saw the headline of this story - that Israel's Ministry of Energy is insisting on government guarantees for a solar panel project - I thought of Solyndra and Bright Source and all those other failed US 'green' companies and thought 'oy... here we go down the same path to disaster (and reelection)....'

But when I was able to read a little further, I discovered that I'm actually