Residents of Haifa demonstrating against pollution in their city.

MK Khenin: Unreasonable Concentration of Polluting Industries in Haifa Bay Area

The privatized Israel Oil Refineries Ltd. remains the country’s worst polluter, according to an Environmental Protection Ministry report released Monday night, October 26. The ministry unveiled the data, which includes a survey of 507 factories and their emissions levels, among other information, in its 2014 Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR). For the second consecutive…

Hadash Chairman, Mohammed Barakeh

Barakeh Elected Head of Higher Arab Monitoring Committee

Leading Communist Party of Israel (CPI) activist, Mohammed Barakeh, the former MK and head of the Hadash front, was elected chairman of Israel’s Higher Arab Monitoring Committee on Saturday. The committee, the leading Arab-Palestinian political body in Israel, is an independent political organization tasked with coordinating the political activities of all organizations of this community…