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Left: Dov Khenin, chairman of the Israeli Climate Forum, addresses a meeting of Bedouin council representatives on preparing for climate change in Beersheba, November 6, 2024. (Courtesy of the Israeli Climate Forum); Right: Israeli Climate Forum CEO Netta Galnoor-Tene. (Yael Tzur)
January 29, 2026, 12:35 pm
Ahead of annual report, Climate Forum heads say even in wartime, they battle for change
In a joint interview before presenting findings to president, chair and CEO of environmental group discuss post-Oct. 7 programs, local government, and making good financial sense
By Sue Surkes
President Isaac Herzog (center bottom row), flanked by State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman (right) and Dov Khenin, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 3, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office)
April 7, 2025, 9:02 am
Government ‘treading water’ on climate crisis, state comptroller warns
Englman tells President’s Climate Forum his office places ‘special’ emphasis on monitoring sustainability, climate and environment, will issue two new reports this year
By Sue Surkes
Renewable energy wind turbines as seen next to the snowy peaks of Mount Hermon on January 3, 2021, northern Golan Heights, with a posted sign warning of land mines. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
November 8, 2024, 6:35 pm
In run-up to annual UN climate confab, President’s Climate Forum focuses on resilience
Ahead of November 11 Baku conference, chair of Herzog’s environment coalition, former MK Dov Khenin, says wartime events have made climate-related issues even more urgent
By Sue Surkes
COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber at the end of the COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
December 28, 2023, 11:05 am
Little room for optimism after COP28 climate confab, environmental leaders say
One Israeli activist calls Dubai summit a ‘win for maintaining the status quo,’ as lawyer laments that the ‘narrow financial interests of the fossil fuel industry have taken over’
By Sue Surkes
Protesters blocking the Ayalon freeway with a sukkah in Tel Aviv, Sept. 30, 2023. (Eitan Shley / Protest organizers)
September 30, 2023, 10:31 pm
‘You won’t divide us’: Protesters against overhaul rally for a 39th weekend
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv block Ayalon freeway with sukkah after week that saw clashes between religious and secular Jews on Yom Kippur
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal (to his right) pose with members of the President's Climate Forum, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 17, 2022. Dov Khenin is third from right. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
May 18, 2022, 11:11 am
President’s Climate Forum developing ‘sparks of ideas’ to present at COP27
Body launched before COP26 in Glasgow last year comprises 180 leaders from across society; Herzog says ‘cooperation is key’
By Sue Surkes
An aerial view of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel's southern Red Sea port city of Eilat, February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 30, 2021, 2:32 am
Firm behind disputed UAE-Eilat oil pipeline: Ministries don’t have right to see deal
Europe Asia Pipeline Company, whose contentious oil deal with an Israel-UAE consortium has not been seen by any government ministry, tells Knesset committee it’s just following law
By Sue Surkes
Newly president, Isaac Herzog speaks at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
October 20, 2021, 8:25 pm
‘State of emergency demands emergency steps’: Herzog forms Israeli Climate Forum
President appoints former Hadash MK to head panel, which will lead deliberations about climate crisis and determine the state’s role in combating it, ahead of UN climate confab
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a climate conference in Tel Aviv on November 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 5, 2020, 7:56 pm
President: Israel should ‘rush’ to set climate targets, meet them
Receiving ‘Change of Direction 2020′ plan started by ex-MK Khenin, Reuven Rivlin says ‘no reason’ why Israel shouldn’t be world ‘beacon of excellence’ in sustainability.
By Sue Surkes
Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka in the Knesset plenum on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 2, 2019, 6:25 pm
Balad chair: Party is ‘part of Palestinian national movement,’ PM a war criminal
Choosing Knesset slate, Arab faction hears greetings from ex-MK who fled amid Hezbollah spy allegations, former MK jailed for smuggling contraband to Palestinian security prisoners
By ToI Staff
Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh attends a Knesset session in Jerusalem, January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2019, 8:49 pm
MK Ayman Odeh unanimously reelected to head Hadash party
MK Aida Touma-Suleiman places second on list, while Ofer Kassif, currently the faction’s only Jewish candidate for Knesset, comes in third
By ToI Staff
Former Joint (Arab) List MK Dov Khenin attends a protest of Ethiopians from the Absorption Center in Mevaseret Zion near the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2019, 10:26 am
The MK who says he’s leaving the Knesset to save Israel’s democracy
Dov Khenin, the opposition’s most prolific legislator, laments that in 13 years he ‘failed to change the general direction of society.’ He’s not giving up; he is altering course
By Raoul Wootliff
File: Joint Arab List MK Dov Khenin in the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 12:38 pm
Sole Jewish lawmaker on Arab list to retire from Knesset
Communist activist and progressive attorney Dov Khenin says he will ‘join the grassroots and try to change country’s direction from the bottom up’
By ToI Staff
Danny Ayalon (right) and Avigdor Liberman in court in 2013. The two men, once close allies, did not speak (Yossi Zamir/POOL/Flash90)
September 17, 2018, 6:25 pm
Liberman’s ex-deputy calls for probe of alleged link to Manafort case
Danny Ayalon, who served as lieutenant to foreign minister, says he wasn’t aware of ‘very strange’ 2012 Foreign Ministry statement accusing Ukrainian opposition of anti-Semitism
By Raoul Wootliff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC) on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2018, 10:06 pm
It wasn’t me: Liberman said to ask US to name senior Israeli who aided Manafort
Defense minister reportedly wants US to clarify he was not the unnamed government official in scheme against Ukrainian politician, threatens to sue media outlets that malign him
By ToI Staff and AP
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