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More than NIS 1.5 million ($465,500) has been invested over the past year to collect some 8,300 cubic meters of olive mill wastewater for treatment, from around 37 Palestinian olive presses in the West Bank, the Civil Administration has reported.
This is 40 percent more than was collected during a pilot project last year, and will stop the wastewater, which is full of contaminants, from blocking sewage facilities and polluting the a-Shaer and Alexander streams, which run into Israel, as well as the shoreline at Beit Yannai, on the northern Mediterranean coast.
The treated wastewater was used as a fertilizer for agricultural fields.
The Civil Administration is an Israel Defense Ministry body that forms part of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit that regulates much of the daily life in the West Bank.
2020/12/28 23:40 FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, photo provided by the Iranian Health Ministry, medics tend to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Tehran, Iran. Iranian . FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, photo provided by the Iranian Health Ministry, medics tend to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Tehran, Iran. Iranian media reported on Monday, Dec. 28 that an unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus. (Akbar Badrkhani/Iranian Health Ministry via AP, File)
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People wear protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in downtown Tehran, Iran. October 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) An unidentified group of US-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus.
Details remained scarce in the report by semiofficial Tasnim news agency. It quoted the chief of the country’s Red Crescent Society as saying he expects the vaccine created by American drug maker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech to be imported by January19 “based on coordination with a group of benefactors in the US.”
It says 3,508 were recorded on Sunday, when 4.9 percent of tests returned positive.
According to the ministry, there are 36,888 active coronavirus cases, with 602 people in serious condition, 147 of them on ventilators. The death toll stands at 3,247. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it s full of beauty and meaning.
I m proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capture the complexity of this extraordinary place.
I believe our reporting sets an important tone of honesty and decency that s essential to understand what s really happening in Israel. It takes a lot of time, commitment and hard work from our team to get this right.