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…

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…

MK Khenin submit company tax transparency bill

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), Labor Party chairwoman MK Shelly Yachimovich, MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism), MK Moshe Mizrahi (Labor) and MK Meir Sheetrit (Hatnua), tabled on Wednesday a bill for transparency and disclosure of tax assessments of big companies. The bill was written with the Movement for Freedom of Information and aims to disclose…

Environmentalists to march in Tel-Aviv to save beaches

Several hundred activists will embark on an “Emergency March to Save the Beaches” on Tuesday evening, in protest of the destruction of the Israel’s coasts. The demonstration, which will begin at Kaplan Street at 6 p.m. and end with a party on Bograshov Beach, is being organized by environmental groups Green Course; the Israeli Forum…