Polluted beach in Gaza City, June 2016

Gaza: Shortage of Sanitation Infrastructure Raises Severe Health and Environmental Concerns

In recent years, the longstanding shortage of adequate sanitation infrastructure in the Gaza Strip has resulted in the discharge of around 90 million liters of untreated or partially treated sewage into the sea every day, posing serious health and environmental hazards. Development of water and sanitation infrastructure has been severely impacted by the import restrictions…

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…