Protests against gas exports

Hundreds protested in Tel Aviv against the neo-liberal government’s decision to export 40% of Israel’s natural gas reserves. Protesters blocked Ibn Gavirol Avenue and King George Street and waved signs reading: “Don’t give gas to the tycoons” and “Gas exports = national suicide.” Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the decision to export…

Social activists against gas export block Tel Aviv road

Hundreds of protesters blocked Tel-Aviv’s Namir Road last Saturday at noon  in protest of the State’s plans to export some of Israel’s natural gas. Hundreds  of social activists marched to Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s home in northern Tel Aviv and then blocked Namir Road, one of Tel Aviv’s main avenues. The protesters are claiming that…

MK Khenin against capitalists over issue of exporting natural gas

Tensions stirred in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee on Monday, as MK’s and gas industry capitalists sparred over the increasingly hot-button issue of exporting the country’s natural gas. The offshore Tamar reservoir is already flowing into the country’s transmission pipelines, with the 282 billion cubic meters found there dedicated to domestic use only. Tamar’s roughly…

60 MKs demand to block gas exports

At an emergency session of the Knesset’s Social-Environment Lobby on Wednesday, some 60 MKs signed a letter demanding that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bring the issue of determining gas export allocations to the legislature. “The decision on the issue of exporting the gas from reservoirs discovered near Israel’s coasts bears far-reaching economic, social and environmental…