New in Israel: Soybean Gas

Z’man HaNegev; Written by Shimohn Ifargan - 4, August,2006

Gas for vehicles from soybean oil. A new invention of the Hebrew Israelite Community from Dimona: Soybean oil.  The Foreign Ministry has expressed interest in marketing the idea to countries in Africa and Asia.

The members of the Hebrew Israelite community have invented lately soybean oil that can be used as gas for vehicles.  It’s a brilliant invention that can lower the prices by more than 20%, because the soybean – when it’s dry is an inexpensive commodity and large amounts of oil can be produced from it, oil that can be used as commutative gas for vehicles.  The members of the community that live in the Village of Peace in Dimona have worked for months in the invention of the soybean oil and have even established a small company in the U.S. that converts soybean oil to gas for vehicles.

During the course of several months members of the community sat ina lab in the community and started the idea of making soybean oil into commutative gas.  “We’ve done some experiments”, says Prince Immanuel Ben Yehuda, one of the community’s leaders, “with the intent to make oil from soybeans that will be used as gas for vehicles.  Members of the community conducted the experiments with large amounts of dry soybeans and to our surprise we succeeded in getting nice amounts of oil from the bean.  At the same time, we established a company in the U.S. that will begin to market this idea to gas stations in the country and all kinds of large companies.”

The members of the community executed a great experiment several days ago.  They took a large truck, put several bottles of soybean oil into the trunk and traveled to Jerusalem for a meeting with the heads of the Foreign Ministry.  To their surprise, the truck drove with no problems using soybean oil and there were no problems with the engine.  “The truck drove well with soybean oil, better that regular gas.  We arrived to the parking lot of the Foreign Ministry in the truck with no problems,” said Prince Immanuel Ben Yehuda.

The members of the community met with the heads of the Foreign Ministry under the headship of Haim Divon and offered to him marketing the idea of soybean oil as gas for ships and vehicles to countries in Africa and Asia.  They were enthused at the Foreign Ministry about the invention of the members of the community and promised to examine the idea of marketing the idea to different countries in the world.  “At the Foreign Ministry they were very enthused about our idea and promised to offer it to different countries in the world” says Prince Immanuel Ben Yehuda.