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Illustrative: A police car is seen at a crime scene in Hadera on April 28, 2025. (Flash90)
January 17, 2026, 3:00 pm
Apparent human fetus found in drain under Hadera residential building
Residents said to have discovered 23-week-old fetus in sewer after days of plumbing issues; unclear if it was aborted or miscarried
By ToI Staff
Wastewater contaminated by sewage flows into the Shikma Stream in southern Israel. (Atid LeOtef)
February 23, 2025, 8:19 am
Residents say state shirking responsibility over sewage pollution in southern stream
Untreated sewage has been flowing into stream for 9 months after damage at wastewater treatment plant; local official in charge of sewage says he lacks power to punish polluters
By Sue Surkes
In this April 30, 2020, photo, Palestinian engineer Raed Nakhal from Palestine Children Relief Fund, right, and engineer Abdullah Dewik, check the Watergen machine that generates safe drinking water from air on the roof of al-Rantisi pediatric hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 6, 2024, 9:14 pm
Israelis, Palestinians to launch joint bid to bring humanitarian aid to post-war Gaza
Damour for Community Development in Gaza and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies form group of companies aiming to provide off-grid services to ravaged territory
By Sue Surkes
A Palestinian man looks out the window as smoke billows following an Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin, on July 3, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
July 6, 2023, 9:49 am
Anatomy of a power vacuum: How sewage and import rules stoke West Bank conflict
Part of the story of escalating violence is as boring as it is devastating: Bureaucratic ineptitude, driven by the lack of democracy in areas under its control
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Small bridges connect a bank of the Jordan River to an island as part of an upgrade being carried out by the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority between the Alumot Dam and Menahhemia in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority)
March 11, 2023, 2:08 am
Quietly, a stretch of the Jordan River is being cleaned up and transformed
Earthworks and landscaping are aimed at attracting visitors, tourists, with plans to make water safe for swimming; the cleanup will still leave Jordan, Palestinians high and dry
By Sue Surkes
This 2014 illustration made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle.(Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File)
August 12, 2022, 8:43 pm
Polio detected in NYC sewage, suggesting virus circulating among unvaccinated
Discovery comes weeks after Orthodox Jewish man suffers paralysis due to infection in nearby Rockland County; health officials renew pleas for public to vaccinate their children
By Karen Matthews and Mike Stobbe
Family members visiting a family member at the coronavirus ward of Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on February 15, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 4, 2022, 3:24 pm
Israeli researchers warn of new international COVID wave, driven by Delta comeback
Omicron didn’t wipe out the previous variant, which is super-resilient and could reemerge with a vengeance, according to peer-reviewed study based on cutting-edge sewage monitoring
By Nathan Jeffay
Lina Zeldovich, author of 'The Other Dark Matter.' (Courtesy)
April 22, 2022, 3:14 am
Upcycling feces? Don’t pooh-pooh it. Dropping inhibitions can have heaps of benefits
In ‘The Other Dark Matter,’ journalist Lina Zeldovich argues that humanity is wasting a perfectly good resource that can be used for fertilizing crops, biofuel and even medicine
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: A scientist inspects water in a creek (kosmos111 via iStock by Getty Images)
November 1, 2020, 4:21 pm
Israeli experts make global stink over coronavirus surviving in treated sewage
Researchers issue call for sewage plants worldwide to disinfect wastewater, lest pumping it into natural water sources lead to infections among animals or humans
By Nathan Jeffay
The installation of sewage-monitoring stations at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (courtesy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
October 27, 2020, 5:07 pm
Israel takes crack at sniffing out COVID outbreaks in people’s poop
14 cities to have their sewage tracked in a bid to spot virus spikes early; university deploys toilet analysis to find dorms with infection before it spreads across campus
By Nathan Jeffay
Attempts to rescue six Palestininans who fell into a cesspit in a southern West Bank village, September 26, 2020 (video screenshot)
September 26, 2020, 5:12 pm
Six Palestinian family members drown in West Bank cesspit accident
Initial information indicates the victims were working on a new pit when it suddenly flooded
By ToI Staff
Raw sewage flows near the main Gaza Strip power plant serving the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, south of Gaza City, on June 24, 2019. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
August 22, 2020, 7:51 pm
Israel cries foul, warns of disaster as sewage flows in from across Gaza border
Officials call overflow of effluent into south a deliberate act; Hamas threatened ‘consequences’ after Israel cut its fuel imports due to arson attacks, shutting down power plant
By ToI Staff
Technicians from Israeli firm Kando extract sewage samples from a manhole near the beach, in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, on June 11, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
July 30, 2020, 10:12 pm
Israeli tech firm successfully tracks down COVID-19 in Ashkelon’s sewers
In pilot program that could help avoid sweeping lockdown measures, wastewater management company Kando identifies virus hotspots down to street level
By ToI Staff and AFP
Clive Lipchin in front of a pilot off-grid sewage treatment unit in the Bedouin village of Umm Batin, near Beersheba in the Negev. (Courtesy, Arava Institute)
June 1, 2020, 10:24 am
First off-grid wastewater treatment unit in Bedouin village piloted
Solar-operated unit created at Arava Institute could bring public health benefits to the south of Israel as well as developing countries, where raw sewage kills 1.7 million yearly
By Sue Surkes
Untreated sewage flowing in the Kidron Stream in the Judean Desert following several days of heavy rain, November 27, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 5, 2020, 5:42 am
Could wastewater carry coronavirus? Expert says research needed urgently
Dror Avisar, head of Tel Aviv University’s Water Research Center, says that nobody knows what dangers COVID-19 might pose in streams, groundwater, beaches
By Sue Surkes
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