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Senior prison officials tour the crocodile farm at Hamat Gader in northern Israel, January 2026. (Via social media)
July 17, 2026, 1:17 pm
Minister snubs legal adviser, advancing Ben Gvir’s plan to surround prisons with crocodiles
Likud’s Idit Silman reclassifies crocodiles as ‘tended’ to pave way for far-right national security minister’s plan, despite opposition from environmental officials
By ToI Staff
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman at the annual Jerusalem conference of 'Besheva' -- the digital arm of the right-wing Arutz 7 media network, February 17, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
June 1, 2026, 11:49 am
Environment minister slams data from her own office as ‘fake news’
Idit Silman blasts NGO for releasing figures obtained through Freedom of Information request showing 83 percent drop in indictments against environmental violators on her watch
By Sue Surkes
Palestinians burn electronic waste illegally near Azzoun, in the Qalqilya Governorate, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 4, 2025, 12:45 am
Environment minister requests $41 million to tackle polluting West Bank waste fires
Describing fires as Palestinian ‘terror,’ and calling for ‘environmental sovereignty,’ Idit Silman says Israel will deduct costs from Palestinian taxes
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a rally for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem, February 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2025, 8:35 pm
Green NGOs appeal to attorney general against environment minister’s refusal to release funds
Group warns that Idit Silman’s decision not to call for grant proposals for NIS 11 million approved by special fund could ‘bring smaller organizations to their knees’
By Sue Surkes
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 27, 2023, 4:40 pm
Knesset can’t allow court ‘to lead us into void,’ says minister ahead of key hearing
Ministers Shlomo Karhi and Idit Silman paint High Court hearing on government recusal law as an attack on democracy
By Jeremy Sharon
An undated photo of visitors bathe in one of the pools of the Einot Tsukim oasis in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 1, 2023, 10:34 pm
Environment minister announces sex-segregated hours at parks, prompting legal review
Justice officials need to authorize the project, which would extend opening hours for religiously observant visitors at two natural springs in August
By Canaan Lidor
For Illustation: View of solar panels set up in the Negev desert, June 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 7, 2023, 12:42 pm
Israel to triple amount of open space dedicated to solar energy production
National Planning and Building Council okays Energy Ministry request for 10,000 more acres to be used for renewable electricity production; Environment Ministry opposes
By ToI Staff
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
Construction workers in a tunnel being bored for a new highway into Jerusalem on March 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
March 15, 2023, 8:27 pm
Treasury reverses bid to oust Environment Ministry advisers from planning boards
Ministry agrees to speed up impact survey process in exchange for more funds; staff cut deal with Finance Ministry after protests over plan to put private consultants on committees
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)
February 21, 2023, 10:21 am
Scientists chide environment minister for meeting with climate skeptics
Group calls on Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman to consult with climate change experts rather than people who ‘spread false information’
By Sue Surkes
Environment Protection Minister Idit Silman, left, dives at the coral reefs in Eilat, February 6, 2023. (Omri Omsi/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
February 7, 2023, 10:09 am
Environment minister goes diving to save coral
Idit Silman dons scuba gear with parks authority officials to help relocate coral that has grown on submerged garbage, as part of project to protect Eilat’s reefs
By Stuart Winer
US special climate envoy John Kerry stands in the middle of leaders and officials who have committed to take their governments to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, at the US pavilion, COP27 climate conference, Sharm el;-Sheikh, Egypt. Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg stands to his right in a green suit. Dekel Cohen from the Accountant General's Office is on the far left. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
November 17, 2022, 11:38 pm
Israel joins US-Canada plan for net zero carbon emissions in government by 2050
More than 50 participating countries will prepare work plans in time for UN COP28 climate confab in Dubai next year
By Sue Surkes
Activists demonstrate in favor of closing the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv on April 24, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2022, 2:00 pm
Tel Aviv bus station declared a pollution hotspot
Environment minister’s move under Clean Air Act will force city hall to produce detailed plan to deal with diesel emissions within six months
By Sue Surkes
Maysoon Sweity, a 54-year-old Palestinian from Beit Awwa, sits on the roof of her home and watches as e-waste and garbage burns near the concrete wall separating her village from Israel on April 26, 2019. (Tamir Kalifa)
January 10, 2022, 2:27 pm
A deadly trash trade is poisoning Palestinians in the West Bank
Burning Israeli scrap for valuable raw metals is a lethal livelihood for thousands of Palestinians, sending cancer rates skyrocketing in villages near Hebron
By Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. (Courtesy)
November 3, 2021, 2:35 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 3 – In Glasgow, Bennett does some diplomatic speed-dating
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and environmental reporter Sue Surkes discuss their reporting at the climate conference in Glasgow
By ToI Staff
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