Zafrir Rinat

After repeated efforts to get the charge dropped, residents are now preparing a lawsuit against the water and sewage corporations and the Water Authority.

Panel overrules Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan, who warned construction would damage Eilat reef.

Party leader Prof. Alon Tal said that political parties should work toward eliminating allowances and other incentives designed to encourage families to have more children.

Authorities hope that Alona Park near Moshav Amikam, now in its final stages of approval, will put the area on the map for other, less controversial reasons

International watchdog World Wildlife Fund charges Leviathan drilling site that the planned drills disregarded legal restrictions set down in international agreements to protect the sea.

Environmental Protection Minister prefers to maintain his current role in the government.

Environmental protection minister says he would rather focus on environmental reforms in Israel than assume the UN post.

Level rose 8.5 cm over the weekend.

An interview with Electric Corporation head Amos Lasker.

Ten-year-old program transferring turtle eggs to protected locations for hatching is beginning to show results.

Be'er Sheva saw 60 millimeters in three days, of which 40 millimeters fell in a little more than 24 hours, which is unusual for the region.

A plan to clean-up ground pollution over thousands of dunams could open up NIS 35 billion worth of land.

New bill targets not only the operators but also anyone who transports the material from the site or uses the finished products.

An amendment an anti-dumping law that went into effect in May 2010 gives the ministry the authority to suspend driver's licenses and impound vehicles used to commit environmental offenses.

The winter wonderland is expected to peak on Tuesday and Wednesday, when snow may fall not only on Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights but in the central region as well.

Plaintiffs claim Guri Rosen built a cowshed, feed storage facility without a permit, as well as a fence that appropriated public lands earmarked for pasture and nature reserve.

A committee headed by the official responsible for Haifa at the Interior Ministry is studying the lessons of the Carmel fire and evaluating the area's planning needs.

Experts believe that dolphins have taken up permanent residence near Israel's shores; 15 were spotted off the coast of Tel Aviv on Saturday.

Tu Bishvat celebrations will span over three days this year, metamorphosing from a tree-planting holiday into an occasion with wider environmental and social significance.

Threats include a plan to build a bridge over one of the Galilee's most scenic rivers, the erection of dozens of electricity poles close to the Haifa coastline as part of an electric railway project.

The hill in question, which was part of a landfill some decades ago, was more recently restored to its natural state by the Bat Yam municipality and the Environmental Protection Ministry.

Beachgoers blocked from popular Beit Yanai beach by huge wall of boulders and earth.