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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Haifa Bay

Smoke billows from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, after an Iranian missile hit early on June 16, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
July 8, 2025, 4:18 pm
Interior Ministry seeks to exempt oil refinery hit by missiles from building permit
Haifa Municipality petitions High Court, says move lacks transparency and is being made over the heads of residents and elected authorities
By Sue Surkes
Smoke billows from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, after an Iranian missile hit early on June 16, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
July 1, 2025, 8:47 pm
Refinery hit by Iran missiles emitting ‘100 times higher than usual’ levels of benzene
Carcinogenic emissions seen at monitoring stations on compound fence, at a high school. Bazan company says its own monitors show routine emissions that meet government standards
By Sue Surkes
Damage at the Bazan Group's oil refinery in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile between June 15-16, 2025. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 17, 2025, 5:25 pm
Missile that hit Haifa oil refinery brings renewed urgency to plant’s closure plan
Environmental activists, who support long-term government plan to close Bazan plant for good and import and store products, warn writing is on the wall
By Sue Surkes
Architect's impression of a park being created in a huge rehabilitated salt marsh where the Kishon River meets the sea, part of plans to overhaul the Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Kishon River Authority)
March 25, 2025, 8:07 am
As Haifa goes green, oil refinery closure delayed but crude oil tanks set for removal
Plan for the bay’s polluting heavy industry to be replaced with green spaces, housing and commercial areas are behind schedule, but project heads say it will be completed on time
By Sue Surkes
A lionfish hides behind a rock as researchers monitor the Mediterranean Sea. (Guy Ra'anan and Mikey Bar-Adon)
January 28, 2025, 10:28 am
The Eastern Mediterranean is heating twice as fast as the global average – report
Research finds sea level rising almost 40% faster than global average, water is saltier, and invasive species comprise more than half the prey caught in sampling nets
By Sue Surkes
A man sits overlooking the port of Haifa on September 24, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
September 24, 2024, 5:13 pm
Despite rocket fire at Haifa, Israeli seaports operating as usual, authorities say
In letter, Port Authority says Israel’s ‘multi-layered security,’ including Iron Dome, keeps ships safe from Eilat to Ashdod and Haifa amid rocket and drone attacks
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A still image of Haifa Bay from footage of northern Israel claimed by Hezbollah to have been captured with a drone on an unspecified date and published on June 18, 2024. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 18, 2024, 6:06 pm
In open threat, Hezbollah publishes drone footage of sites in northern Israel
Terror group posts nearly 10 minutes of video, including shots of Haifa bay and sensitive military locations, as US envoy urges de-escalation in Beirut
By Emanuel Fabian
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
Plans envisage waterways flowing through neighborhoods in a rehabilitated Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Yaar Architects/Israel Lands Authority)
May 24, 2024, 11:26 am
Inside the plan to turn Haifa’s befouled bay into a livable urban hub rivaling Tel Aviv
The Gateway to the Bay project will replace polluting factories and oil storage tanks with 130,000 new homes, walkable streets, beaches, parkland, canals and clean, green jobs
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries and the industrial area of Haifa Bay, October 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
September 29, 2022, 1:06 pm
Bazan Group indicted for pollution for 5th time in seven years
Israel’s biggest oil refinery and subsidiaries, fined nearly NIS 7.3 million for offenses over last 5 years, is now accused of 15 air pollution events at 10 facilities in 2017
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries and the industrial area of Haifa Bay, October 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
September 6, 2022, 6:10 pm
PM greenlights petrochemical company’s takeover of Israel’s biggest oil refinery
Although Lapid does not specify conditions, new owners tell Tel Aviv Stock Exchange they will cooperate fully on government plan to shut Haifa Bay facility in a decade
By Sue Surkes
File: View of Haifa's oil refineries and other industrial areas, on May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
September 5, 2022, 3:36 pm
Pressure mounts on PM to condition sale of oil refineries on shutdown within decade
Court approves billion-shekel debt settlement at public’s expense, while finance and energy ministers approve Bazan Oil Refineries takeover by Israel Petrochemical Enterprises
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
August 2, 2022, 11:37 am
Study: Childhood exposure to Haifa pollution linked to increased cancer risk
Research analyzing data from 1967-2012 shows 6-17% greater risk of cancer for Haifa Bay residents exposed to high pollution levels in their youth
By ToI Staff
Factories in Haifa Bay. (Shay Levy / Flash90)
July 10, 2022, 6:27 pm
Environment Ministry files criminal charges against Bazan Group for air pollution
Indictment alleges that Carmel Olefins failed to properly use flare to burn gases, pumping nearly 100 tons of carbon monoxide, ethane, methane, ethylene and propane into the air
By Sue Surkes
Paramedics arrive at the scene of an accident at Haifa's industrial zone, March 16, 2022. (Magen David Adom)
March 16, 2022, 12:57 pm
Construction worker falls to his death in Haifa
Man plunges 6 meters from roof; poorly enforced safety codes make fatal work accidents a frequent occurrence in Israel
By ToI Staff
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