A 7,000-square-meter (23,000-square-foot) section of cliff to the north of the Nof Yam (Sidna Ali) beach in central Israel’s Herzliya collapses.
Nobody is hurt and the area is fenced off.
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman says the incident underlines the urgent need for the second phase of a coastal cliff protection project to be budgeted.
The project is to be implemented in Herzliya and Bat Yam in central Israel, and in Ashkelon in the south.
In 2020, the state comptroller lambasted the country’s leadership for failing to act on a 2011 government decision to prevent cliff collapses.
The 45 kilometers (28 miles) of coastal cliffs between Hadera in the north and Ashkelon in the south are suffering from natural erosion, as well as human-induced changes such as buildings and marinas.
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