New environment minister has ambitious plans for Israel - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Danny Zaken

Danny Zaken

Jun 22, 2021

EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images — Incoming Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg arrives for a photo at the president's residence during a ceremony for the new coalition government in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. — EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

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Environmentalists call Eilat oil shipping disaster waiting to happen

Danny Zaken

In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel

An Egyptian soldier stands guard during an organised tour for diplomats to mark the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the Suez Canal, in the northeastern city of Ismailia on November 17, 2019. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was opened to navigation i

Egypt concerned UAE-Israeli pipeline project will affect Suez Canal

Khalid Hassan

People and children gather at a Red Sea beach near the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal by Israel's southern port city of Eilat on Feb. 10, 2021.

Israel suspends fuel-transport deal with UAE

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Oil storage containers of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC).

Israel, UAE to cooperate on clean hydroelectricity

Danny Zaken

In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel