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Illegal burning of electronic waste near Azzoun, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 29, 2025, 11:54 am
Pirate waste fires choke Israelis and Palestinians as ministers play game of hot potato
Ahead of upcoming elections, lawmakers wake up to citizens’ protests as Environmental and Defense Ministries battle over turf, and as Treasury promises — but doesn’t deliver — funds
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Construction waste. (lusia599; iStock by Getty Images)
December 24, 2025, 7:54 pm
Environment Ministry inaugurates new facility for recycling building waste
Located in Kedumim in northern West Bank, the facility separates materials that can be used again for new building and infrastructure projects, reducing what is sent to landfills
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Solid waste is sorted and separated at a facility next to the Hiriya Landfilll near Tel Aviv on November 11, 2008. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 22, 2024, 7:36 pm
Finance Ministry proposes creating independent authority to manage waste treatment
Following years of failure to significantly reduce amount of trash sent to landfill, ministry suggests new body to bring Israel up to OECD standard
By Sue Surkes
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a meeting of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, on March 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 8, 2024, 2:33 pm
Ben Gvir’s ministry takes over enforcing building violations, sparking racism charges
Activists protest wording that mentions ‘criminality’ in Arab society; Arab Israelis claim they face often insurmountable obstacles to legal construction
By Canaan Lidor
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
One of 12 vehicles seized by the Environmental Protection Ministry's Green Police and the Tel Aviv District fraud unit on suspicion that they were used for the illegal dumping of building waste in Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, August 8, 2023 (Green Police)
August 8, 2023, 5:29 pm
Municipal workers suspected of taking bribes to allow illegal waste dumps
Four suspects from Ramat Hasharon and Taibe taken for questioning by fraud detectives, with further arrests said possible
By Sue Surkes
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