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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

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People attend the UAE Climate Tech Forum in Abu Dhabi, May 10, 2023. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
July 31, 2023, 10:29 am
Green organizations to boycott UN COP28 climate confab in Dubai
Zalul and Adam Teva V’Din cite government’s climate failures, while student-led Green Course plans annual march for climate to coincide with opening day of international meet
By Sue Surkes
An oil tanker docked at the Europe-Asia Pipeline Company's port in Eilat from May 28 to 30, 2023. (Courtesy, Zalul)
July 27, 2023, 8:08 am
Green groups gear up for fight as oil pipeline looks to pump up Eilat operations
Secretive state company said to be pressuring ministries, Prime Minister’s Office to more than double quota of crude that can be transferred via Red Sea terminal
By Sue Surkes
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man buys disposable plastic dishes in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, January 20, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)
January 30, 2023, 7:04 pm
Disposable plastics trigger culture war, testing government cohesion
A tax on single-use tableware that took a bite out of pollution is seen by ultra-Orthodox as an assault on their community; repealing it became a priority for Haredi parties
By Ilan Ben Zion
Former Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg is flanked by some of the many opponents to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's deal to transfer Gulf oil, outside the High Court in Jerusalem, on December 23, 2021. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
December 23, 2021, 7:17 pm
Green groups claim victory, withdraw court petition against Eilat oil deal
Move follows state attorney’s opinion that the Environmental Protection Ministry had full authority to act against the agreement
By Sue Surkes
An Israel Navy ship operates off the coast of Eilat after an oil spill, on October 14, 2021. (Eli Warburg and Oz Goren/Environmental Protection Ministry)
October 14, 2021, 8:56 pm
Oil leaks from docked naval vessel into Red Sea near Eilat
Authorities probing incident but say fault that caused hydraulic oil to escape into sea has been fixed; environmental group urges IDF to enact serious green reforms
By ToI Staff
A herd of gazelles seen in Mitzpeh Naftoah, Jerusalem, March 26, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 3, 2021, 12:41 pm
Mass of green events mark World Environment day, World Oceans day
Eco-activities to be held across the country on Friday through next week at beaches, urban nature spots, projects and sites where preservation campaigns are being waged
By Sue Surkes
An oil tanker docked at the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's port, close to the coral reef nature reserve of Eilat in southern Israel. (Society for the Protection of Nature)
May 5, 2021, 11:08 am
Green groups ask High Court to halt secret UAE oil deal signed by state company
Deal signed by Europe Asia Pipeline Company with Emirati consortium ‘invalid’ because it wasn’t approved by government or opened for consultation with public, petition charges
By Sue Surkes
Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
July 27, 2020, 6:52 pm
Keep ‘unreliable, immoral’ Chevron Corp. out of Israel, activists urge MKs
Demanding debate on oil giant getting Noble Energy’s Mediterranean stakes, campaigners say Chevron avoiding $9.5b payout for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ spill, boding ill for Israel
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
July 9, 2020, 12:12 pm
Government set to weaken pollution regulations to help business
Activists warn that moves to ‘strike balance’ between economic costs, health benefits of limiting pollution and toxic substances will set back public’s protection ‘by decades’
By Sue Surkes
Trash in nature, from a presentation by former MK Miki Haimovich during a Knesset Interior Affairs and Environment Committee meeting on waste, June 2, 2020.
June 3, 2020, 6:25 pm
As garbage grows, Knesset committee debates failed efforts to squash litterbugs
Blue and White MK says all the money and time invested in education, awareness and clean-ups hasn’t done the job; need long, ‘aggressive’ public awareness campaign and fines
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Ze'ev Elkin arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 8, 2020, 6:35 pm
Environment minister slams green groups as ‘charlatans’ over gas rig fight
Stunning conference, Ze’ev Elkin devotes address to excoriating organizations for ‘deliberate distortion,’ especially those that campaigned against offshore extraction facility
By Sue Surkes
Israelis at the beach in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, August 27, 2019. (Flash90)
December 12, 2019, 6:57 pm
In first for Israel, city of Eilat bans disposables on beaches
Municipality announces move to avoid polluting Red Sea, with several coastal cities planning similar action
By AFP
This picture taken on January 31, 2019 shows a view of the SSCV Thialf crane vessel laying the newly-arrived foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of the coast of the Israeli city of Haifa. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)
December 3, 2019, 2:39 pm
As Leviathan gas platform prepares to start production, not everyone is cheering
While Texas-based Noble Energy invests heavily in charm offensive, coastal cities, environmental groups worry that rig so close to shore will damage quality of life
By Sue Surkes
Surfers protest plans to install a breakwater at the last open beach in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2019. (eyesurf productions)
October 10, 2019, 5:01 pm
Surfers protest plans for breakwater off last open beach in Tel Aviv
Adi Gluska, 12-time Israel surfing champion, says submerged geotube planned by Tel Aviv Municipality will strike blow to surfing, endanger swimmers, cause pollution
By Sue Surkes
Israelis barbecue during Israel's 69th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem, May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 9, 2019, 9:53 am
As Israelis fire up the BBQs, park officials plead: Pick up your trash
In one green area in the center of the country, staff members need at least 8 garbage trucks to clean up after Independence Day
By Melanie Lidman
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