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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

environmental issues

An oil tanker docked at the Europe-Asia Pipeline Company's port in Eilat from May 28 to 30, 2023. (Courtesy, Zalul)
April 29, 2025, 4:36 pm
State proposes extending secrecy for state-owned oil infrastructure firms
Draft notice posted to government website without publicity, giving public until May 5 to respond to proposal for the Europe Asia Pipeline Company
By Sue Surkes
Israeli firefighters try to extinguish a fire that started from a fragments of an interception missile at the Biriya Forest in northern Israel, June 4, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 15, 2025, 5:37 am
Burned trees, traumatized animals: Nature reveals the unseen effects of Israel’s wars
Missile fire and other factors have disturbed entire ecosystems, affected wildlife habitats and undone years of work by foresters, compounding existing problems from climate change
By Deborah Danan
A section of the Saadia Stream that flows through the northern city of Haifa. (Haifa Municipality Spokesperson's Department)
June 18, 2024, 12:49 pm
State begins rehabilitation of polluted Haifa stream
Pumping station will divert pollutants from Saadia stream, which flows through northern city’s industrial area. But, says activist, it won’t solve winter sewage flow
By Sue Surkes
Shoshanna Harari plays a harp in the ruins of her harp-making factory after a forest fire, Moshav Ramat Raziel, near Jerusalem, August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 4, 2024, 4:48 pm
Climate change will be here long after the war, but the leadership is neglecting it
CEO of environmental advocacy organization Adam Teva V’Din says that one year in, the current government is the ‘worst for the environment in Israel’s history’
By Sue Surkes
An oil tanker docked at the Europe-Asia Pipeline Company's port in Eilat from May 28 to 30, 2023. (Courtesy, Zalul)
July 27, 2023, 8:08 am
Green groups gear up for fight as oil pipeline looks to pump up Eilat operations
Secretive state company said to be pressuring ministries, Prime Minister’s Office to more than double quota of crude that can be transferred via Red Sea terminal
By Sue Surkes
Part of the terrace at Muslala in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Muslala)
July 2, 2023, 9:38 pm
With open space disappearing, Jerusalem city hall looks to give roofs a new purpose
Mayor Moshe Lion takes inspiration from Muslala, a nonprofit organization that wants to see a million square meters of rooftops serving the community and the environment
By Sue Surkes
A traffic jam at the entrance to a gas station in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 6:52 pm
OECD slaps Israel with poor marks on environmental performance in new report
Country behind on climate targets, has increased subsidies for fossil fuels, has the lowest level of renewable energy in 38-member club, highest rate of threatened native mammals
By Sue Surkes
Rabbi Laura Bellows, now Dayenu's director of spiritual activism and education, waves matzah as she encourages major financial organizations to divest from fossil fuels at a rally in Washington, DC, April 20, 2022. (Bora Chung | Survival Media Agency / Courtesy of Dayenu via JTA)
May 14, 2023, 4:42 am
US Jewish institutions awaken to climate crisis, with hundreds pledging action
Long a top priority for American Jews, climate change hasn’t been high on the agenda for the organizations serving them – but that’s beginning to change
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the post-Cabinet press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, March 7, 2022 (Mark Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)
April 4, 2023, 3:47 pm
Ardern to begin new role combating online extremism as envoy for Christchurch Call
Ex-premier of New Zealand declines to accept pay for working to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist internet content; will also join Prince William’s environmental charity
By Nick Perry
Minister of Environmental Protection Idit Silman speaks at an Energy Conference in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
April 2, 2023, 11:41 pm
Cabinet approves ministerial climate and environment committee
While environmental protection minister hails ‘step toward a climate law,’ climate group cautions move could be a ‘fig leaf’
By Sue Surkes
A Birthright Israel group exploring the desert. (Sarah Kornbluh)
March 19, 2023, 9:49 am
Birthright Israel set to announce five-year ‘greening’ process
Organization will integrate environmental content and activities into Israel visits, thanks to ‘transformational gift’ in honor of Birthright co-founder Charles Bronfman
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Demonstrators gather outside of Atlanta's City Hall on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, as local officials announce they are moving forward with plans to build the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The protesters have called for officials to abandon plans for the project which they derisively call Cop City. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)
March 9, 2023, 4:35 am
Invoking Jewish traditions, activists protest planned Atlanta police training center
In the forest where an 85-acre law enforcement compound is set to be built, ‘Stop Cop City’ protesters have prayed, celebrated Shabbat, built a sukkah, and lit Hanukkah candles
By Dave Schechter
File: Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, July 30, 2022. (AP/Dita Alangkara)
February 15, 2023, 8:50 am
Rising seas may trigger ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale,’ UN chief warns
Antonio Guterres says 900 million people living in low-lying regions, including small islands and major coastal cities, may become climate refugees if global warming ignored
By AFP
A man shops for disposable plastic tableware in Osher Ad Supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021, shortly after new taxes on disposables went into effect in Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 12, 2023, 4:16 am
Why Israel’s new right-wing leaders immediately made plasticware inexpensive again
Many in the Haredi community saw the last government’s tax hike on disposable utensils and sweetened drinks as a targeted attack, which the religious right-wing is now walking back
By Deborah Danan
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Ainsworth (C-L), China's Ecology and Environment Minister Huang Runqiu (C-R), Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Maruma Mrema (2nd R) and Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (R), during a plenary meeting during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, December 19, 2022. (Lars Hagberg/ AFP)
December 19, 2022, 10:23 pm
Countries reach major deal to safeguard nature at UN summit in Montreal
Envoys at COP15 Biodiversity Conference commit to protect 30% of environment vital for biodiversity by 2030, boost support for poorer countries by tens of millions of dollars
By Michael Casey
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