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Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter. An oil tanker docked at the Europe Asia Pipeline Company s port, close to the coral reef nature reserve of Eilat in southern Israel. (Society for the Protection of Nature) A secretive deal with environmental, health, economic and social implications for Israel, signed by a state company to channel Gulf oil through the country on its way to European markets, should be declared invalid because it was neither discussed nor approved by the government, nor was it opened for consultation with experts and the public, a High Court petition submitted Tuesday charged.

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