UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
In an effort to deepen economic cooperation, Israel has offered its expertise and technological capabilities to India in its ambitious drive to clean up the Ganga. A preliminary offer on this was made when Amit Lang, Director-General of the Ministry of Economy, Israel, met Indian officials on Tuesday. Mr. Lang …
Following a Tuesday in which air pollution levels had reached up to 38 times their normal concentrations around the South and Center, the Environmental Protection Ministry said on Wednesday that pollution levels had subsided from the Gush Dan and northward on Wednesday, due to the heavy rains. Nonetheless, air pollution …
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors for thousands of years who come to float in its salty waters and reap its reported health benefits. But the attraction's days could be numbered after experts discovered the sea's water level is dropping by an average of one metre every year. The drop …
The past month has been a very active and meaningful one for KKL-JNF Finland, which organized a number of diverse range of events focused on Israel and the environment The events were attended by a diverse range of people from Jewish and Christian groups, government figures and the general Finnish …
Extreme weather conditions were expected to continue Wednesday after a deluge of heavy winter rain storms hit Israel on Tuesday. The risk of flooding prevailed and occasional as showers occasional thunderstorm were slated to continue from Tuesday into Wednesday across the country from the North to the Negev with snowfall …
As sea levels climb and extreme weather events intensify, climate change will not only impact global ecology, but will also pose a threat national security, according to a report released by the US Defense Department on Monday. “In our defense strategy, we refer to climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ …
An estimated 1.2 million Palestinians in Gaza still have no running water, according to report released by organization that has directors based in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. As parties from the region prepare to gather in Cairo next week to discuss the reconstruction of Gaza, the environmental organization …
Welfare and Social Services Minister Meir Cohen and Eli Alalouf, head of the Committee to Fight Poverty, announced on Monday the intended allocation of NIS 1.7 billion for the implementation of the committee’s recommendations to fight poverty in the upcoming year. “For me, this is a historic and important moment. …
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is awarding a $1 million prize to a Swiss-American research duo for their breakthrough work in converting solar energy into electricity capable of powering transportation. Prof. Michael Grätzel of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Prof. Thomas Meyer of the University of North …
With traffic ceasing almost completely all areas saw steep drops in nitrogen oxide levels. Cities around Israel experienced dramatic drops in air pollution levels on Yom Kippur – the sole day in the year when traffic essentially ceases to flow – with Jerusalem and Gush Dan boasting a decrease of …
Last year, Israel's polio-free status was seriously challenged. On May 28, 2013, a sample obtained during routine supplementary environmental surveillance at a sewage-treatment plant in the South district tested positive for wild poliovirus type 1. Additional analyses retrospectively confirmed that the virus had already been present in February 2013 in …
Over the past year, the country’s justice system has significantly strengthened enforcement activity against ecological violations, the Environmental Protection Ministry informed The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Examining various events in which groups and individuals have been convicted for their activities, the ministry declared a “welcome, strict trend of the justice …
Aiming to revive a riverbed that has been used for decades as an illegal waste dump, the Dead Sea Drainage Authority has embarked upon a restoration plan for Nahal Hava in Mitzpe Ramon, the authority announced on Sunday. Working in conjunction with the Open Spaces Protection Fund and the Environmental …
The Environmental Protection Ministry will be allocating NIS 2 million for the purpose of maintaining cleanliness at beaches in 19 local authorities this summer, the ministry announced on Monday. Under the framework of the ministry’s “Clean Beach” program, the funds will be administered with the purpose of maintaining the purity …
Amit Mendelssohn The project to restore the Kishon River has been frozen due to the Water Authority commissioner’s refusal to accept professional committee recommendations that would allow for the discharge of purified Kishon water back to the river, the Environmental Protection Ministry said on Sunday. For its part, the Water …
Aiming to alert Israelis as to whether the air they are breathing is suitable for engaging in sports and other activities, a new free Android application provides location- based air pollution levels data through a real-time platform. The newly released application, BreezoMeter, accesses data in real-time from 300 air-pollution monitoring …
The Environmental Protection Ministry will be investing NIS 183 million in the regulation of waste in the Arab and Beduin sectors, under the framework of a new environmental-social justice strategy launched on Tuesday. As part of the annual Knesset Environment Day – held two weeks after World Environment Day – …
Nearly every other school in Israel is exposed to excess levels of cancerous electric radiation, it was revealed during a discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Tuesday. The discussion was held in collaboration with Life and Environment - The Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs as …
The government approved on Sunday an additional budget of NIS 42 million for environmental improvements in Beduin communities, to supplement the existing NIS 40m. budget already allocated for this purpose in July. Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz requested the funds in order to advanced waste treatment systems for the Beduin …
