By Hana Namrouqa – May 23,2016 AMMAN — Pumping of drinking water to Muadi Village in the Central Jordan Valley resumed on Monday afternoon, after fixing a rupture to the main carrier supplying the community with water caused by construction works, a government official said on Monday. The six-inch main pipeline, which carries water from […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/30/2016 With a budget of NIS 2.3 million, the program aims to get rid of garbage at beaches bordering the Mediterranean Sea and in Eilat. Beach season this year will hopefully get a bit cleaner. That’s because the Environmental Protection Ministry announced that they would extend their Clean Beach program on […]

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Sewage on Jeddah’s beaches exceeds international limits: Environmentalist 1/6/2016 Pollution on Jeddah’s beaches exceeds international limits, which should be blamed on the National Water Company’s (NWC) lack of treatment for sewage, according to an environmental specialist. Ali Ishqi, a former environmental professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, claimed that there is considerable pollution on […]

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The largest Concentrated Solar Power (CPS) project to be built on a single site in the world will begin power generation in Dubai within the next five years, officials announced on Thursday. The long view is that the new CPS site will generate 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power by 2030 as part of the Dubai […]

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Before leaving office, former Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon wrote to outgoing Minister Environmental Protection Avi Gabai that IDF cannot afford to halt installation of asbestos replacement parts in tanks and APCs, saying no alternative exists. Amir Ben David Published: 05.28.16, Despite the danger of being exposed to carcinogens, the former Minister of Defense Moshe […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/24/2016 Shai Abad, the Ministry of Finance’s director-general, said that the Israeli government was looking forward to “broadening the Israeli horizon” regarding eco-technology. Clean tech was front and center when American and Israeli government officials met Monday for the 31st US-Israel Joint Economic Development Group. Meeting at the Foreign Ministry in […]

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May 23,2016 AMMAN — University of Jordan (UJ) President Azmi Mahafzah on Monday opened a lab for renewable energy at the faculty of engineering, prepared by the EU programmes, Tempus and Erasmus, at a cost of over 150,000 euros, according to a UJ statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra. The lab includes a […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/22/2016 Valls attends inauguration during his 3-day trip to Israel, calling the site another “chapter of cooperation between our two countries” and a sign of future work. Israel came one step closer to a clean-energy future on Sunday when the country inaugurated a 50-megawatt solar in the northern Negev, through a […]

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By Mohammad Ghazal – May 19,2016 AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with the GCC Interconnection Authority to join the Gulf countries’ power grid through Saudi Arabia. Stressing the importance of the agreement, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Saif said at the signing ceremony that the deal is very […]

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The new clause will allow future governments to review and amend the gas deal legislation; Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz praises the agreement, saying that it will be brought to a cabinet vote in the coming days. Lior Gutman, 05.21.16 The government has reached an agreement on four new principles regarding the stability clause of the […]

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Egypt will pay Israeli Electrical Corporation $865 million over 14 months in compensation for non-supply of gas to Israel via the al-Arish-Ashkelon pipeline since February 2011; if deal is signed, it will open doors to the implementation of a number of other Egyptian-Israeli deals. Lior Gutman, 05.21.16 Egypt and Israel are close to reaching a […]

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By JAMES GLANZ and RAMI NAZZALMAY 14, 2016 AUJA, West Bank — Samer Atiyat, a Palestinian farmworker, had climbed halfway up a 20-foot date palm and was trimming stalks that held rich clusters of the fruit, still green and unripe. Working near the Dead Sea on land that still evokes its biblical past, Mr. Atiyat, […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – May 25,2016 AMMAN – Plans are under way to establish a regional centre for trans-boundary animal diseases in Maan Governorate, 220km south of Amman, a government official said Wednesday. The facility will be established under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Hashemite Fund for Badia Development and the World […]

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By Merza Noghai – May 21,2016 – Last updated at May 21,2016 11 7 googleplus0 0 0 Authorities in Petra in cooperation wih the UNDP have installed four environment-friendly toilets in places that lacked such facilities. The utilities are able to convert waste into organic fertilisers (Photo by Merza Noghai) PETRA — Although some 80 […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/24/2016 Report lead by State Comptroller Joseph Shapira ssays aid that there are about 250-300 hazardous material incidents each year that affect the environment. Myriad shortcomings exist in Israel’s handling of potentially harmful environmental issues, according to a report released Tuesday by State Comptroller Joseph Shapira. The report found that there […]

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Despite professional recommendations to stop air pollution from wood burning charcoal production in northern West Bank, the government has failed to act. Zafrir Rinat May 13, 2016 The government has failed to implement decisions to prevent air pollution from charcoal production plants in the northern West Bank, resulting in serious health problems for people in […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 05/24/2016 PMO Director-General Eli Groner said “excess regulation” prevents farmers from using the “most modern and safe agricultural methods.” Regulations on agricultural pesticides, as well as livestock vaccinations and disinfectants may soon be lightened after the Ministerial Committee on Regulation in the Prime Minister’s Office approved a proposal to lessen rules […]

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Gamla Nature Reserve once housed dozens of raptors’ nests, but only three active nests were found this year; experts optimistic that more vultures will return next year. Zafrir Rinat Apr 25, Israel’s largest nesting site for vultures ceased to be active last week. The discovery is a blow to the efforts of the Israel Nature […]

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Tel Aviv launches program to encourage restaurants to reduce damage to environment. A shopping cart full of discarded vegetables and coffee remains makes its way every week from Tel Aviv’s Cafe Bacio to the garden of the adjacent Gavrieli Hacarmel elementary school. If a group of 3rd-5th graders would not load up the leftover food […]

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Courtesy of VisitPalestine.ps Around 26,000 hectares (3.94 percent) of the West Bank can be classified as forested areas. There are approximately 93 major forests – natural, manmade, and mixed. The natural forests are habitats of great diversity of flora and fauna and include some endemic tree species such as Pistacia palaestina, Quercus calliprinos (Palestine oak), […]

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