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Gilad Ostrovsky is a man of vision. He has a national reputation as an authority on integrated solid waste management and before joining IUED in 2004, he was an extremely busy consultant on solid waste management. Educated at Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from where he earned a master's degree in environmental planning. He brings these skills – and his vision of a sustainable environment in Israel – to his position as director of IUED's comprehensive recycling & solid waste initiative.

Every time Keren Halperin-Museri, director of IUED's Green Alert Help Center, visits Keseife, a small Bedouin village in the Negev near Arad, she is invited to stay for dinner. To the Bedouin living in Keseife, for whom hospitality is the highest form of gratitude, Keren and her staff are heroes...>>

From San Diego to the Galilee...taking care of Israel's water resources.
At IUED, Sarit has fulfilled her aliya dream. Sarit is grateful to have personally influenced the water policy making process in Israel and to impact Israel’s future in a positive way, and hopes to continue doing so through her work at IUED.>>

Amit Bracha; "All inhabitants of the State of Israel, especially its underserved populations, have the right to clean air, clean water and access to open spaces."
Amit Bracha, Deputy Director of IUED for the last two years is our new Executive Director, effective March 1 2010. Read more about our new director>>

The government has approved a massive expansion of highway #1 at an estimated cost of 2.5 billion dollars. New construction will include bridges and tunnels - and destruction of the landscape and ecological damage.

Court rules in favor of open spaces and cancels a building permit in the central Sharon.

Eilat's building boom is eating up precious last reserves of natural sand dunes in the Southern Arava. Despite a pending appeal in the Supreme Court, the Israel Lands Administration has awarded a tender for removal of sand from the site before the first hearing. IUED has asked for an injunction.

The long-awaited report of the National Investigation Committee on the state of Israel’s water economy reflects closely the recommendations submitted by IUED, and in fact, the ongoing agenda of IUED’s Water Watch initiative.

IUED is calling on the new attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein, to respond to the State Comptroller’s report with a decision to cancel plans for a 350-unit holiday village.

Aluminium manufacturing plant not suitable for business park zoned for 'clean commercial activity.' Despite zoning laws and ongoing proceedings before planning commissions, factory began operating last summer. The Nazareth Administrative Court has now ordered the factory closed within six months.