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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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Apr. 23, 2021 6:04 AM
More than two months have passed since the severe oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, which caused great damage to the offshore waters and the coasts of Israel and Lebanon. The washing ashore of lumps of tar is considered one of the major ecological disasters in Israel’s history. Those who purportedly bore direct guilt for the disaster were marked.
The Environmental Protection Ministry announced that the oil was ejected into the water from the Emerald, a pirate oil tanker of Libyan ownership, which had set out from the Persian Gulf. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel went so far as to declare that the incident was a case of “ecological terrorism,” an act originating in Iran that targeted Israel.