The Negev Nuclear Research Center as viewed from a satellite in the late 1960s

MK Khenin: Time to Shut Down Nuclear Reactor at Dimona

“It’s time to shut down the 53-year-old Dimona nuclear reactor,” according to a worried MK, Dov Khenin (Hadash – Joint List). Built in 1963 using technology acquired from France, the safe life expectancy of the reactor – officially known as the Negev Nuclear Research Center – is 40 years, according the manufacturer’s specifications. Several members…

Earth Day at Kishon Park, near Haifa, last Monday, April 25

Earth Day: Thousands Visit the Kishon Park near Haifa

Haifa has been in the headlines for months due to its alarming pollution problem and that was what apparently made it the appropriate spot for Israel’s annual Earth Day celebration. On Monday, April 25, thousands of celebrants made their way to the city’s Kishon Park, bordering the notoriously polluted namesake river that has been the…

An activist arrested by a police officer during a protest in New York City against occupation of the Palestinian territories

23 Young Jews Arrested in Anti- Occupation Protests across USA

Twenty-three young American Jews were arrested over the past week in a series of anti-occupation demonstrations across the United States. The protests, which took place in major American cities ahead of the weekend’s Passover holiday, brought out over 500 members of the Jewish anti-occupation collective, IfNotNow. Demonstrators used civil disobedience to push major American Jewish…