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Palestinians burn electronic waste illegally near Azzoun, in the Qalqilya Governorate, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 18, 2025, 6:43 pm
Katz, Smotrich declare West Bank waste fires a security issue, unveil emergency plan
Plan allows for seizure of Palestinian waste trucks, large-scale waste removal, the establishment of a new waste disposal site in the central West Bank; costs to be imposed on PA
By Stav Levaton
A fire lit to burn waste in the West Bank, as seen from the northern Israeli town of Harish, October 2025. (Dolev Hilell)
December 7, 2025, 11:04 pm
Lack of funds to fight waste fires is a ‘death sentence’ for hundreds, group warns
Citizens for Clean Air says state neglecting health of citizens; Environmental Protection Ministry still negotiating with Treasury to obtain funds
By Sue Surkes
The Dudaim dump site is the biggest landfill in Israel, near the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, August 10, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
December 2, 2025, 5:52 pm
Drowning in garbage: Council heads warn waste sector facing ‘systematic collapse’
160 mayors appeal to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, saying local authorities can’t cope, criminals taking over, infrastructure poor and outdated
By Sue Surkes
Israelis hike the Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve and enjoy the Yehudiya waterfall trail featuring cascades and pools down a 400-meter vertical drop, central Golan Heights, October 23, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
November 17, 2025, 11:34 am
Environment Ministry slams Treasury attempt to weaken it, roll back green progress
Draft economic arrangements bill would allow infrastructure projects in national parks, nature reserves, set up waste-management authority ‘focused on cost’
By Sue Surkes
An undated photograph of the Hiriya waste sorting facility, near Tel Aviv. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90).
October 8, 2025, 10:30 pm
Truckers’ dispute over long lines at landfill site threatens waste collection
Dan region waste treatment chief assails Environmental Protection Ministry, says it warned about a ‘national landfill crisis, congestion, delays, but they did nothing’
By Sue Surkes
Agricultural waste. (Matauw, iStock by Getty Images)
December 5, 2024, 10:22 am
Israel to get 1st facility to recycle organic waste, produce gas and fertilizer
Discount Bank, environment ministry to fund plant near Gaza border that will use sealed containers of microbes to break down 200 tons of household and agricultural waste annually
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Solid waste is sorted and separated at a facility next to the Hiriya Landfilll near Tel Aviv on November 11, 2008. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 22, 2024, 7:36 pm
Finance Ministry proposes creating independent authority to manage waste treatment
Following years of failure to significantly reduce amount of trash sent to landfill, ministry suggests new body to bring Israel up to OECD standard
By Sue Surkes
A waste dump visited by Environment Protection Ministry inspectors, June 2023. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
August 7, 2024, 4:11 pm
Court allows electronic waste corporation to continue working for time being
District Court rules Ecommunity can continue serving 125 local authorities until hearing is held on Environment Ministry’s sudden decision to withdraw recognition
By Sue Surkes
A waste dump visited by Environment Protection Ministry inspectors, June 2023. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
July 24, 2024, 10:22 pm
Councils, companies left without e-waste recycling as ministry cuts firm’s contract
Environmental Protection Ministry make sudden decision to withdraw backing for Ecommunity, one of two corporations dealing with electronic trash
By Sue Surkes
Feral dogs from the Gaza Strip seen near to Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel. (Nimrod Cohen)
February 13, 2024, 8:10 pm
Feral dogs from Gaza enter Israel, compounding nature authority’s war woes
Ending 2023 with NIS 150 million deficit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority has one worker in Hamas captivity, 310 serving in the IDF reserves, 118 evacuated from their homes
By Sue Surkes
Heavy smoke rises from a large tank belonging to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company, after being hit by a rocket on May 12, 2021, near Ashkelon. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
December 12, 2023, 9:06 pm
Think tank: Give state environmental bodies more power and funds during war
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies warns decision makers of need to better prepare for potential disasters such as oil spills, damage to fuel tanks, emission of toxic materials
By Sue Surkes
One of 12 vehicles seized by the Environmental Protection Ministry's Green Police and the Tel Aviv District fraud unit on suspicion that they were used for the illegal dumping of building waste in Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, August 8, 2023 (Green Police)
August 8, 2023, 5:29 pm
Municipal workers suspected of taking bribes to allow illegal waste dumps
Four suspects from Ramat Hasharon and Taibe taken for questioning by fraud detectives, with further arrests said possible
By Sue Surkes
In this March 13, 2018 photo, a tractor works at a landfill near the UBQ factory in Kibbutz Tzeelim in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 24, 2023, 8:49 pm
Environment minister succeeds in keeping waste management fund in her office
Interior Ministry backs off effort to gain control of the reserve, which it argued would lead to improved synchronization between the fund and local authorities
By ToI Staff
Cranes lift waste, mostly plastic and paper at the GreenNet recycling plant in Atarot industrial zone, north of Jerusalem, January 25, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)
February 20, 2023, 6:56 pm
Ministries of environment, interior squabble over multi-billion-shekel waste fund
Interior Ministry says takeover of fund for waste management was part of coalition deal; Environment Ministry insists bid not based on any professional considerations
By Sue Surkes
Women protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 20, 2023, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 20: Fateful day at Knesset as judicial overhaul set for 1st vote
Editor David Horovitz speaks ahead of landmark reading of bill that shifts judicial appointments; environment reporter Sue Surkes on stinky garbage grab by Interior Ministry
By ToI Staff
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