University of Wyoming ecology professor and climate activist had been the first Israeli to win a major party nomination for a Senate seat

Candidates are a doctor who killed a bear, a scientist who makes a mean matzah ball, a son of a former vice presidential candidate and a star of the anti-Trump resistance

Climate activist Merav Ben-David, who became a US citizen in 2009, wants to move state away from oil and gas; faces Republican former US Rep. Cynthia Lummis in November