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Adam Teva V'Din

View of the Sea of Galilee. (Dov Greenblat/Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
May 4, 2026, 2:24 pm
Sea of Galilee trail plan that keeps parts of shore off-limits to public sparks outcry
Green groups fight to stop national planners from okaying fences, locked gates and bypass routes along parts of 32-km stretch of Sea of Galilee hiking route
By Sue Surkes
Smoke rises from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, following missile attacks from Iran and Lebanon, March 30, 2026. (Anthony Hershko/Flash90)
April 26, 2026, 5:12 pm
Environmental activists threaten High Court petition over data wipe
Environmental Protection Ministry pulled all pollution permits data from website due to emergency request citing Iran’s efforts to target industrial sites
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 18, 2025, 1:41 pm
Green groups petition High Court to enforce NIS 11 million government funding pledge
Representing environmental organizations, Adam Teva V’Din says environmental protection minister’s refusal to issue calls for the cash is ‘legally unfounded’
By Sue Surkes
A large area of synthetic grass at the Meir Park in Tel Aviv. (Adam Teva V'Din)
August 12, 2025, 4:19 pm
Green organizations: Ban synthetic grass, rubber flooring, old tires in public spaces
Calling to stop using toxic and carcinogenic materials in kindergartens, schools and parks, organizations cite research, note EU ban coming into force in 2031
By Sue Surkes
A section of the polluted Saadia Stream that flows through the northern city of Haifa. (Haifa Municipality Spokesperson's Department)
July 16, 2025, 11:54 pm
Environment Ministry moves to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ after High Court order
Ministry publishes draft regulations to restrict production, trade and use of persistent organic pollutants found in pesticides, flame retardants and more
By Sue Surkes
An abandoned lifesavers' station at the Kiryat Hayyim beach in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Zalul)
July 8, 2025, 5:31 pm
Environmental groups appeal against ‘outdated’ breakwater project on Haifa beach
Lamenting absence of policy to deal with Mediterranean beach erosion, Zalul and Adam Teva V’Din say newest plan will obstruct views, endanger bathers, create pollution
By Sue Surkes
View of salt formations on the Dead Sea shore on April 28, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
November 28, 2024, 10:44 pm
State should include stricter requirements in new tender to mine Dead Sea — lawyers
Responding to draft tender, Adam Teva V’Din says Dead Sea Works must pay for environmental damage, state needs to reserve a percentage of profits to stop sea’s decline
By Sue Surkes
Logan Feeney pours a PFAS water sample into a container for research, April 10, 2024, at a US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
July 3, 2024, 11:57 am
Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in factories, landfill, treatment plants, streams
In wake of High Court petition by green group, ministry publishes results of PFAS sampling, draft of PFAS regulations for hazardous waste permits
By Sue Surkes
Israelis enjoying the beach in Tel Aviv during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 9, 2024, 8:19 am
Environment laws becoming harder to pass, outgoing ministry legal adviser says
Dalit Dror tells confab officials fought Finance Ministry as hard as they could over much-maligned climate bill, which passed first reading in April
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks during a debate in the Knesset, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 4, 2024, 8:58 pm
Knesset passes 1st reading of climate bill without any clear budgeting
In what opponents see as capitulation to Finance Ministry, bill allows government to change climate goals and time targets, as well as base year for comparison
By Sue Surkes
View of the Orot Rabin power plant at Sdot Yam beach, central Israel, April 11, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 10, 2024, 11:56 pm
Advocacy group accuses Finance Ministry of ‘frontal attack’ on environment, public
Adam Teva V’Din joins environmental protection minister in blasting release of budget cut proposals just before cabinet vote now set for Sunday
By Sue Surkes
A home destroyed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in southern Israel's Kibbutz Kfar Aza is seen on October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
December 10, 2023, 10:22 am
Turn Gaza border area into model of sustainable development, green organization urges
Advocacy group Adam Teva V’Din presents roadmap for rebuilding more greenly, as government set to approve framework for 5-year plan to rehabilitate southern border communities
By Sue Surkes
People attend the UAE Climate Tech Forum in Abu Dhabi, May 10, 2023. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
July 31, 2023, 10:29 am
Green organizations to boycott UN COP28 climate confab in Dubai
Zalul and Adam Teva V’Din cite government’s climate failures, while student-led Green Course plans annual march for climate to coincide with opening day of international meet
By Sue Surkes
A view of the Dead Sea Works in southern Israel on February 2, 2018. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
May 30, 2023, 4:23 pm
State told to explain why it slashed NIS 65 million from Dead Sea Works water bill
High Court order represents latest stage in battle by nonprofits to get Idan Ofer’s mineral extraction company to pay for the water it uses
By Sue Surkes
Traffic piles up on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 16, 2023, 10:32 am
Environment group: Bill to limit objections to public works a ‘war declaration’
Environment Ministry and non-profit Adam Teva V’Din push back against Finance Ministry’s attempt to rush through reforms they say will harm environment, climate, public health
By Sue Surkes
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