Dead Sea petition reaches 16,000 signatures

Ahead of the cabinet’s vote tomorrow (Sunday) about MK Dov Khenin’s (Hadash) comprehensive Dead Sea rehabilitation bill, activist groups are banding together to promote an online petition that aims to secure the salty body’s future. Launched about two weeks ago in a joint effort of global web activist group Avaaz, Adam Teva V’Din (Israel Union…

Government quashes plan to rehabilitate Dead Sea

A week after the Dead Sea failed to make the list of winners in the New 7 Wonders competition, the cabinet rejected yesterday (Sunday) a bill that would provide for its rehabilitation and protection in an 8-7 vote. “The government has chosen to stand on the sides of the factories and has failed in safeguarding…

MK Khenin: We must guarantee that crises like the Gulf of Mexico will not occur in the Mediterranean

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved an environmental law that will require factories to publicize their hazardous chemical emissions. But it also rejected two other green bills, a spokesman for MK Dov Khenin (Hadash – the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) announced. The approved National Registry Act,…