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Contaminated water flows in the Hebron Stream below Palestinian village of ad-Dahariya, between banks coated in stone dust, July 14, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2026, 5:02 am
As toxic sewage and factory sludge choke Hebron stream, locals refuse to go with the flow
Inadequate infrastructure and coordination result in dumping by Palestinian residents and industry, causing soil and groundwater pollution. Israel’s response has been frustratingly partisan
By Sue Surkes
Illegal burning of electronic waste near Azzoun, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 29, 2025, 11:54 am
Pirate waste fires choke Israelis and Palestinians as ministers play game of hot potato
Ahead of upcoming elections, lawmakers wake up to citizens’ protests as Environmental and Defense Ministries battle over turf, and as Treasury promises — but doesn’t deliver — funds
By Sue Surkes
An old oil tank can be seen close to a dilapidated apartment building on Deganya Street in Kiryat Haim, northern Israel, July 2, 2025 (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
September 18, 2025, 12:19 pm
Work starts on removing polluting oil tanks near homes and school in north
Plans calls for a large tank farm containing imported crude oil and distillates to close in 2035 as part of a major project to reinvent Haifa Bay
By Sue Surkes
A section of the polluted Saadia Stream that flows through the northern city of Haifa. (Haifa Municipality Spokesperson's Department)
July 16, 2025, 11:54 pm
Environment Ministry moves to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ after High Court order
Ministry publishes draft regulations to restrict production, trade and use of persistent organic pollutants found in pesticides, flame retardants and more
By Sue Surkes
Smoke and fire caused by rockets and drones fired from Lebanon, in the northern town of Katzrin, July 4, 2024 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 11:44 am
146 square kilometers of vegetation scorched in north since October 7 — study
Environment ministry says 145,000 tons of dry vegetation went up in flames between October 7 and July 30, much of it caused by rocket fire from Lebanon and Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Nothing grows along a watercourse at Evrona Nature Reserve in southern Israel, where soil was contaminated by a 2014 leak of crude oil (see the dark patches beneath the soil crust), February 14, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2024, 4:37 pm
Nature authority to remove 30,000 cubic meters of oil-soaked soil at southern reserve
Move follows years of post-spill research and failure of other methods to draw out crude oil that flooded out of broken pipe into Evrona Nature Reserve near Eilat in 2014
By Sue Surkes
Rotem Amfert factories in the Negev. (Screenshot)
August 14, 2023, 6:09 am
Phosphate mining company ICL Rotem tops latest list of worst environmental offenders
But sister company, Rotem Zin, tops list for improving environmental performance since 2020, in index of 45 publicly traded and government firms
By Sue Surkes
A ladybug rests on tar-covered rocks and shells after an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, at Tel-Dor Nature Reserve in Nahsholim, Israel; Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
March 7, 2023, 9:08 am
Two years since major coastal tar spill, marine unit still waiting for extra funds
Prime minister visited spill site, a ministerial committee made recommendations – but in terms of preparedness for a future spill, nothing has actually changed
By Sue Surkes
Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot day, July 9, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 30, 2022, 7:44 pm
More than 2 tons of microplastics pollute Israel’s coast, say researchers
Tel Aviv and Hadera beaches are found to be most polluted out of six tested, likely because they are close to streams, say Tel Aviv University scientists in new study
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
Illustrative. A Boeing 747 El Al plane. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
September 5, 2022, 3:03 am
Israel to ban jumbo jets from Ben Gurion airport to cut noise, pollution
Reform set to come into effect in March 2023, though it will only affect cargo carriers as no passenger airlines currently fly 747s, A340s or A380s to Tel Aviv
By Tobias Siegal
Aerial photo of Nahal Tze'elim, the site of a Dead Sea Works leak, June 5, 2022. (Nature and Parks Authority)
June 5, 2022, 6:41 pm
Leak from Dead Sea Works pollutes surrounding area; protected plants found dead
Nature and Parks Authority says leak from supply canal caused salination of soil; plants dying as a result, some of them protected species; ICL says working to fix it
By ToI Staff
Aerial view of the ruins of the now defunct Electrochemical Industries Company near the northern city of Acre. (Hillel Tatro/Channel 13 Screenshot)
May 24, 2022, 4:51 pm
Environment Ministry greenlights pollution rehab project at Acre Bay site
Tidhar-Harel partnership buys former industrial site known for its high levels of mercury in fish; plans seek to restore soil, groundwater in multi-year project
By ToI Staff
Steven Donziger, in 2018. (video screenshot)
April 27, 2022, 11:53 am
Free after 993 days of detention, US lawyer vows to continue fighting Chevron
Steven Donziger says it’s time to force the oil giant to pay a court-ordered $9.5 billion for rainforest oil pollution. Chevron: The judgement was ‘fraudulent’
By Sue Surkes
The Zin stream in southern Israel at sunset, on June 23, 2017. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 26, 2022, 4:47 pm
State-owned pipeline fined NIS 1.6 million over 2011 spills in Zin stream
Several former senior officials at Europe Asia Pipeline Company also hit with fines over pair of incidents that badly polluted seasonal river in southern Israel
By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes
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