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1/01/2010
Rising awareness of environmental issues in Israel means more people are anxious about health threats, pollution hazards and deteriorating quality of life from poorly planned development and dwindling open spaces.

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Environmental justice for Keseife

After a 11 year delay, work has begun on sewage facilities at Keseife, one month after the Beershea District Court order the local authority to do so.
21/04/2010

Staff Profile - Keren Halperin-Museri, Attorney

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...>>

Supreme Court: Protect children from pollution

Air pollution threats to 900 children at an elementary school in East Jerusalem have been curtailed thanks to legal action by IUED, ACRI and parents of the children at the school. A recent check confirmed that the source of pollution - a heavy metals manufacturing plant - is no longer operating at the site.
17/03/2010

Court orders polluting factory closed

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.
30/11/2009

Asbestos clean up in Nahariya

Update on asbestos clean up in the Galilee: IUED lawsuit spurs government to appoint clean up authority. New legislation is also in on its way. IUED is monitoring progress and our court case is on hold, pending implementation of the clean up strategy.
10/03/2010

Sewage overflowing

IUED is helping residents of Majd Al-Krum fight for access to modern sanitation services. A petition against the local authority is pending in the Nazareth District Court.
31/01/2008

Court halts beach burials

The Haifa Administrative Court has ruled in favor of IUED and the Association for Environment and Life in Nahariya, decreeing that no more graves may be dug outside the cemetery’s boundaries.
1/02/2008

More green, less concrete

With the help of IUED's urban planner, residents of Kiryat Hasharon and the City of Netanya recently agreed to changes in development plans that will grant this new suburb more green and less concrete.

1/02/2008

Hod Hasharon community wins

Residents of Hod Hasharon in the neighborhood adjoining the Agadat Gan banquet and events hall will soon be enjoying a good night’s sleep, thanks to the decision by Kfar Saba Magistrates Court.
20/01/2008
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