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Unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chenical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Corporation power plant on December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
April 12, 2025, 8:31 am
Pensions and savings schemes are key pathway to fighting climate crisis, confab told
First climate finance conference in Israel hears call for more government steps and action by individuals, warnings to business not to be left behind
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, at the start of cabinet meeting meant to approve the 2025 state budget, October 31, 2024 (GPO)
November 3, 2024, 11:29 pm
Israel’s 2025 war budget squeezes disposable income of working-class households
Government drops plans to freeze welfare benefits and tax ‘advanced study’ funds, instead wants to raise National Insurance payments while barely cutting coalition funds
By Sharon Wrobel
A caregiver walks with an elderly woman on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on July 2, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 4, 2024, 11:27 am
Right-wing MKs seek to eliminate pension payments to foreign caregivers
Bill exempting elderly, sick, disabled from making pension contributions for their aides passes preliminary reading; workers’ hotline warns it may keep good carers away from Israel
By Sue Surkes
FILE - A sign reading "fossil fuels out" is displayed during a demonstration at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, on November 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
June 13, 2023, 3:21 pm
Investment houses ‘breaking promises’ to shun fossil fuels – report
After Altshuler Shaham and Migdal fall in Clean Money Forum’s quarterly index, Altshuler Shaham says: ‘Better to engage with companies for change them than to boycott them’
By Sue Surkes
French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he attends a tribute ceremony to veterans of the Algerian War, at the Hotel National des Invalides, in Paris on October 18, 2022. (Mohammed Badra/Pool/AFP)
April 16, 2023, 9:04 am
Defying protests, Macron signs France pension law raising retirement age to 64
Controversial reform increases retirement age from 62, despite 3 months of pleas from opposition and unions, who have declared May 1 a national protest day
By Baptiste PACE and Stuart Williams
Climate activists protest against offshore drilling, at the beach in Tel Aviv, on August 13, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 4, 2022, 5:12 am
At least NIS 57.6 billion of Israelis’ pensions invested in fossil fuels — watchdog
Clean Money Forum’s quarterly ranking shows Altschuler Shaham as cleanest, Yellin Lapidot improving but Migdal increasing fossil fuel holdings, despite policy pledge to cut them
By Sue Surkes
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