"While gas and oil exploration rigs have been dominating the energy news headlines in Israel of late, at least one man and his company think Israel should try to catch the wind to meet the country's ever-increasing energy needs.

"With the government committed to producing 10 percent of its electricity via renewable energy sources by 2020, 55-year-old Harel who resides in the center of the country in Herzliya, already has the ministers of infrastructure, finance and the interior in his corner.