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Two environmental activists attack a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library on May 10, 2024 (Screencapture X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 10, 2024, 5:52 pm
Environmentalists attack case holding Magna Carta copy in London, document unharmed
Octogenarian activists attempted to break reinforced glass case housing one of the founding documents of Western democracy with a hammer and a chisel
By AP
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg attends the Oily Money Out protest outside the Intercontinental Hotel, in London, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
December 7, 2023, 6:48 pm
Greta Thunberg doubles down on anti-Israel stance, accuses it of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Environmentalist poster child from Sweden is not backing down after participating in ‘crush Zionism’ chants
By Canaan Lidor
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
Climate activists of the "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) protest group smeared a black liquid and put up posters on a monument near Germany's lower parliamentary chamber on which the articles of the country's constitution are inscribed. in Berlin on March 4, 2023 (Sven Kaeuler/various sources/AFP)
March 5, 2023, 1:18 pm
Climate activists soak Israeli artist’s work in ‘oil’ at German parliament
Dani Karavan’s ‘Grundgesetz 49’ displays constitution’s articles on glass plates; Last Generation group says it targeted piece because use of oil is incompatible with rights
By AP
Religious leaders call to stop using fossil fuels at at the UN COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 9, 2022. Among them (center) is Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Israeli Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development. (Courtesy)
November 13, 2022, 10:47 am
Multifaith leaders to gather in Israel and around the world for ‘climate repentance’
Jews to join forces with Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists; citing security concerns, Egypt refuses to let event be held at site believed by many to be biblical Mount Sinai
By ToI Staff
Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery to protest fossil fuel extraction, October 14, 2022. (Screencapture/ Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2022, 5:11 pm
Climate activists throw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London
Just Stop Oil activists protest fossil fuel extraction by dumping two cans of Heinz over one of the Dutch artist’s most iconic works; painting unharmed, frame slightly damaged
By AP
Alma Pomagrin, 15 (R) and Lia Lev (16) of the Israel branch of Fridays4Future meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 1, 2021, 11:51 pm
Teen climate activists fly to UN confab in Scotland, deliver letter to PM
Alma Pomagrin, 15, and Lia Lev, 16, both from central Israel, present request signed by 524 young people for Israel to set more ambitious climate targets
By Sue Surkes
Thousands march through Tel Aviv to call for government action on climate change, on October 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 29, 2021, 1:36 pm
Thousands march in Tel Aviv demanding more ambitious action on climate
Organizers describe event as biggest climate protest to date in Israel, estimate 12,000 taking part
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Activists and demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a Global Climate Strike in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019, against inaction on climate change. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
October 28, 2021, 11:31 am
Thousands expected at Tel Aviv climate protest Friday
‘What comes first — money and tycoons or dramatic steps to save lives?’ asks organizer, two days before PM is due in Scotland for climate talks
By Sue Surkes
Protesters against an oil deal with an Israeli -UAE consortium demonstrate outside Foreign Minister Yair Lapid's house in Ramat Aviv on September 25, 2021. (Coalition Against the EAPC deal)
September 26, 2021, 10:51 pm
Israelis take to streets, bridges to protest secret UAE oil deal
FM Lapid, outside whose home some of the protesters gather, pledges ‘thorough, deep, serious examination’ by government before decision on future of agreement
By Sue Surkes
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