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Op-edWe could have reduced, if not prevented, this catastrophe Israel’s coast is devastated by an oil spill. If only we’d had an emergency plan A national response plan for marine oil pollution incidents was ordered in 2008; it was never implemented. Now the beaches are closed, seafood is banned, and further disasters loom David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin" (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem P...

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...

Thousands of volunteers took to the beaches to help clean up the tar from a massive oil spill that washed up on Israeli beaches along the coastline.

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice today, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 100 miles of coastline in what officials are calling one of the country’s worst ecological disasters. Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel’s coast last week after a heavy storm. The deposits have wreaked havoc on local wildlife, and the Israeli Agriculture Ministry determined today that a dead young fin whale that washed up on a beach in southern Israel died from ingesting the viscous black liq...

JERUSALEM - Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice on Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across mo...