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13.1K shares An oil spill at sea that has dumped tons of tar almost all the way along Israel’s Mediterranean coast forced the authorities on Sunday to close all beaches from Rosh Hanikra in the north to Ashkelon in the south until further notice. Gila Gamliel, the environmental protection minister, said she hopes the cleanup will end in time for beach season to open on March 20, but neither she nor anybody else can be certain yet of the damage wreaked by the disaster. Described by a senior Environmental Protection Ministry official as the worst catastrophe he could recall to hit Israe...

Following hospitalization of individuals who apparently inhaled toxic fumes while handling tar, Israel Nature and Parks Authority says there will be proper instruction

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter. Vets carrying out a post-mortem on February 21, 2021 on the corpse of the young fin whale washed up onto Nitzanim beach in southern Israel on February 18, 2021. (Assaf Kaplan, Israel Nature and Parks Authority) Vets carrying out an autopsy Sunday of the young fin whale washed up on a beach in southern Israel on Thursday found black liquid in the animal’s lungs, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority reported. Chief INPA vet Roni King said it was too early to connect the liquid either to the whale’s death or to the oil spill that has...

Gila Gamliel says pollution off coast is of a 'magnitude we have not seen in years,' vows to find those responsible, after 17-meter fin whale washed up dead on beach