ordered a halt on advertising in Haaretz after the newspaper's publisher claimed at a conference in London that "Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters." Levy wrote: "I informed the municipality spokesperson and the treasurer to stop any advertising in Haaretz and agreements related to this newspaper Only a consumer boycott with public money will have any effect." Channel 14 mentioned on Wednesday that Shocken said: "The Netanyahu government is not bothered about imposing a brutal apartheid regime over the Palestinian population It ignores the cost of defending the settlements to both sides while fighting the Palestinian freedom combat soldiers what is happening now in the occupied territories and in part of Gaza is a second Nakba A Palestinian state must be established." "The only way to achieve this is through sanctions against the Israeli leaders who oppose it and against the settlers." Commentator Amit Segal responded: " Israel spends millions of shekels every year in Government Advertising Agency publications statutory ads and subscriptions to Ha’retz published a praise for Hamas terrorists and actually justified their invasion of Israel and killing of soldiers Now the publisher of the newspaper defines the terrorists as freedom fighters," Segal wrote He wondered "How much longer will taxpayers' money finance this support for terrorism?" the nicest thing is that pro-Palestinian activists also protested against this conference in London on the grounds that it encourages apartheid," Segal concluded '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null "\/liveblog_entry\/drone-hit-right-where-wed-been-kindergarten-teacher-recalls-decision-that-saved-kids\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=wJBO7ljzeChRRWRR12.fcCZloV7Qv_6vn9pRL.TlRFM-1746513224-1.0.1.1-6I.SCF3PqggGoXBpVy2cpYrMHGWNaocjuST4UEehE2c" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); The Israeli Film Festival (IFF) made its long-awaited return to Los Angeles after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus kicking off its 36th edition with a gala at the Saban Theater beginning with a buffet-style dinner that set the tone for an evening of celebration hosted the ceremony and delighted the crowd with his spot-on impersonations including a humorous take on former and future President Donald Trump that drew laughs from both supporters and non-supporters alike IFF founder and executive director Meir Fenigstein selected a prominent Israeli figure for the prestigious 2024 Industry Leadership Award Ynon Kreiz is the chairman and CEO of Mattel and is listed on Time magazine’s list as one of the 100 most influential people in the world Actress Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) took the stage to presented the award to Kreiz “I’m so honored to present this award to my dear friend “When I first met Ynon and his incredible wife Anat I immediately found that we have much in common we are proud Israelis and we love storytelling Gadot lightheartedly revealed her nickname for Kreiz Robot,” highlighting his boundless energy and memory “My husband and I wonder if he has an on and off switch on his back…. The “Wonder Woman” actress went on to describe how Kreiz had brought significant financial success to Mattel since becoming its CEO in 2018 revitalizing the company by building a franchise around its most popular product He is credited with bringing the iconic doll to the big screen resulting in a box office gross of over $1.4 billion reflected on his history with the IFF and how it came full circle that night licking envelopes and sending out invitations,” he said with a smile “I was new here to LA and I craved connection to my home country This was also a great way to get into the festival for free receiving this award feels like a full-circle moment with one key difference — no envelope licking this time.” Kreiz praised the festival’s mission: “This is more than just Israeli filmmaking; it’s an opportunity to showcase a small piece of Israeli culture to the world Israel is the most multifaceted place on earth Show me one person who’s visited Israel for the first time and didn’t say it’s the most amazing place they’ve ever been to.” “This is more than just Israeli filmmaking; it’s an opportunity to showcase a small piece of Israeli culture to the world.” – Ynon Kreiz The evening also saw a special highlight with the screening of Tom Nesher’s film “‘Come Closer,” which premiered in front of members of the American Film Academy This marked the beginning of the film’s journey to the Oscars adding a note of excitement to the festival as Israel’s official entry for the Oscar for Best International Film The screening attracted an impressive array of stars filmmakers and members of the local film community all eager to experience Nesher’s acclaimed work Nesher’s debut film is a haunting exploration of love set against a backdrop of stunning visuals whose life begins to unravel after the tragic death of her brother When she discovers that he had a secret girlfriend propelling her into an unsettling spiral of fixation The 27-year-old director dedicated the film to her brother who has a longstanding history of showcasing the works of Tom’s father Before launching the IFF in New York in 1982 Fenigstein was the drummer of the highly successful Israeli band Kaveret and even appeared in a few films “We are proud to present during this year’s festival more than 40 new feature films and our new initiative of a student short film competition We remain dedicated to fulfilling our promise to our generous sponsors the beloved filmmakers and their great films.” Twelve filmmakers and actors took the stage representing the vibrant lineup of talent who will participate in Q&A sessions following the screenings of their films 26 at Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino and Laemmle Royal Theatre in West L.A To purchase tickets visit: www.israelfilmfestival.com  elections in the 39th World Zionist Congress nears conclusion—voting closes May 4—American Zionist Movement (AZM) Executive Director Herbert Block said there were few barriers of entry to voting in what Jewish leaders are describing as a consequential election We are here today because Jewish fathers and mothers wanted more than happiness from their children The bipartisan group includes Los Angeles representatives Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) and Ted Lieu (D-West LA) Speaking ill of someone once most likely leads to a second time You Can Call Her a Nepo Baby if You LikeWriter-director Tom Nesher made 'Come Closer,' a film inspired by huge personal loss Then came October 7 and a year of collective grief 2024Get email notification for articles from Adrian Hennigan FollowNov 17 2024When Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher was in Greece earlier this month so I uploaded a picture to Instagram and wrote 'Nepo water for a Nepo baby.'" TheWrap Screening Series: Filmmaker Tom Nesher and her two lead actresses discuss depicting both grief and joy in the Israeli Oscar submission director Tom Nesher tragically lost her 17-year-old younger brother Nesher channelled her grief into the script for “Come Closer,” her bold intoxicating new film in which the death of a beloved sibling is merely the starting point for a drama about identity As part of TheWrap’s Screening Series for a heartfelt conversation about the film “Come Closer” is the official Israeli submission for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards a 20-year-old woman whose teenage brother (Ido Tako) is struck by a car and killed Eden discovers that her brother had a secret girlfriend named Maya (played by Rosenn) and develops a fixation on her — Eden craves a closeness to Maya hoping that their shared love can somehow keep her brother alive Both Elalouf and Rosenn are making their film debuts with their performances Much of the crew consisted of first-timers in terms of feature moviemaking and Nesher filmed the movie in 20 days entirely in real locations on the streets and beaches around Tel Aviv This all energized the production with a sense of the fresh and unpredictable Referring to a consequential scene that she shot while swimming in the Mediterranean but I really wanted to do everything by myself because I felt then I’d get the most authentic and raw reaction So I ended up doing the intense physical and emotional things by myself.” the response was way more authentic and I got everyone calling me Tom Cruise that day.” her character hangs from the back of a pickup truck while Elalouf’s is holding her by the arms “Lia is such an amazing scene partner,” Rosenn shared It’s a memory I treasure and think about a lot.” The moment benefited from its sense of danger I don’t know if the producers were OK with it acting is about taking risks and being present in this insane moment and we got a great scene out of it.” Director Nesher also discussed the movie’s dramatic opening scene where a young man in abducted by a gang of men in broad daylight in the street It’s an alarming violent scenario – until we realize that he is being pranked by friends “I really wanted the film to have different tones that are changing all the time,” she said but to be open to the way that things are changing in life.” “I really love that about the film and I love that about life That life can be unexpected and it could just always change And [the film] is also very much about the feeling of having something very horrible happening to you in life and choosing life and choosing to be hopeful and to continue the love It’s just that you have to be willing to embrace the changes of tone in real life.” The big winner at last September’s Ophir Awards (the Israeli Oscars), “Come Closer” will be released in March 2025 in theaters. Watch the full discussion, here Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb While employees of the Harsa plant in Beersheva are battling against the Hamat group's plan to close the factory down and move to Turkey the Nesher Cement monopoly is also struggling against cheap Turkish production flooding the sector in Israel Nesher has recently begun considering further layoffs and reductions in its activity throughout Israel including closing down its plant near Haifa and the decline in the sector is projected to continue over the coming year as a result of large-scale cement imports from Turkey sold in the Israeli market at dumping prices "The situation that has emerged in the cement market requires Nesher to take a series drastic measures in order to survive in the long term," a senior cement sector source told "Globes." The exporting of the Turkish cement industry's unemployment to Israel in recent years is difficult to ignore Production by cement factories in both Turkey and Greece has outstripped the falling demand in those countries caused by their dire economic situation and the war in Syria Cement industry sources said that imported cement currently has a 40% share of the entire Israel cement market at the expense of Nesher and Hartuv Cement a small cement manufacturer located near Beit Shemesh and are being evaluated with the utmost seriousness They will include closing down its plant in the north and dozens of additional layoffs as well as lowering prices to enable the company to survive in the face of cheap cement imports from Turkey with Turkey constantly breathing down its neck," the senior source added Nesher had an unchallenged monopoly in the cement market for many years It is still regarded as a monopoly in the market but its market share has fallen to less than 60% The Turkish cement industry's activity features cement production surpluses In order to get rid of the large inventory that it has accumulated some of it is exported to the Israeli market and sold at prices lower than those at which cement is sold in Turkey This dumping has engaged the attention of Ministry of Economy and Industry director of import administration and commissioner of anti-dumping measures Danny Tal for a long time based on the use of large furnaces that cannot be turned off when demand for the product is low Production is therefore continued under these conditions thereby increasing the supply and creating a need to dispose of inventory Most of the dumping is conducted by Israel Shipyards subsidiary Ciment Past complaints by Hartuv Cement resulted in the opening of an investigation of the matter by Tal Hartuv Cement alleged that cement dumping created unfair competition and jeopardized its existence and the future employment of its 120 employees argued that its imports had lowered the prices of construction inputs The company said that competition was now lowering prices after many years of over-concentration in the sector This assertion was supported by an opinion by Competition Authority director general Michal Halperin It was also argued that Hartuv Cement's production infrastructure was outmoded making it difficult for the company to manufacture at competitive prices Nesher is an efficient company that invested in mechanization and advanced production facilities in recent years Tal found that the complaint was justified and that cement produced in Turkey and Greece was indeed being sold in Israel at dumping prices He recommended imposing anti-dumping customs duties of 7-22% on cement imported from these two countries Cohen rejected Tal's recommendation and set customs duties on imported cement at 0.25% for 30 months Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen ruled that during the period when customs duties are low the ministry official in charge of customs duties in his ministry would regularly inspect the development of imports and the level of prices in the industry When imported cement reaches a 50% market share an increase in customs duties will be considered in order to restrain imports for the sake of local production Sources inform "Globes" that the official responsible for customs duties contacted Hartuv Cement and Nesher and other players in the sector during the past few days asking them to provide him with up-to-date data within two weeks about the state of imports and production in the sector in the framework of the quarterly assessment of the sector's situation that he planned to conduct This measure was taken at a time when the Knesset Finance Committee chaired by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) is monitoring the cement industry crisis The committee held a special discussion on the subject six weeks ago while the Knesset was not in session The Manufacturers Association of Israel today warned that the crisis at the Harsa plant and at the Phoenicia Glass Works bottle plant in Yeruham which is in danger of closing down because of a haredi (Jewish ultra-Orthodox) boycott because it operates on the Sabbath The Manufacturers Association said that many industrial companies were continually under threat of closing down and Merkavim were operating in a market exposed to cheap imports Figures compiled by the Manufacturers Association economics division show that municipal property tax rates rose 25% over the past decade not including various exceptional increases and fees that increase industrialists' expenses Water and electricity rates have also risen The Manufacturers Association asserted that these increases were detracting from the competitiveness of Israeli industry Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on May 1, 2019 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2019 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page FollowJun 24, 2021Ariel DavidJun 24 2021Get email notification for articles from Ariel David FollowJun 24 archaeologists in central Israel discovered the fragmentary remains of a very strange hominin skull the researchers revealed their conclusion on Thursday: It belonged to a previously unknown type of archaic humans dubbed Homo Nesher Ramla after a limestone quarry in central Israel where it was found lived between 140,000 and 120,000 years ago It may have been one of the last survivors of a very ancient group of prehistoric hominins one that may have been ancestral to the European Neanderthal “This fossil changes many of our views on human evolution and specifically on Neanderthals which were thought to have originated in Europe rather than in the Middle East,” says Prof a physical anthropologist at Tel Aviv University who led the analysis of the skull Open gallery viewThe Nesher Ramla mandible and skull.Credit: Credit: Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler including most of the parietal bones and the lower jaw was found during a 2010-2011 salvage dig at a prehistoric site discovered in the limestone quarry used by the Nesher cement factory The site is just outside the central Israeli town of Ramla Bulldozers were clearing a new section of the quarry when they hit an ancient sinkhole As they dug out sediments to a depth of 12 meters layers of prehistoric tools and animal bones began to emerge an archaeologist now with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem was called in to excavate the site before it was destroyed Israel Hershkovitz (left to right) holding the Nesher Ramla fossilsCredit: Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler Tel Aviv University“This was a salvage excavation so we had to dig much faster than we usually do,” Zaidner recalls “In those two seasons we unearthed an amount of material that would normally require 20 years.” It quickly became evident that prehistoric humans had used the natural sinkhole as an open-air camp to hunt and butcher their prey But who exactly had been doing the hunting were similar to those unearthed at other sites from this period and known to have been inhabited by these early sapiens pioneers Open gallery viewThe Nesher Ramla excavation siteCredit: Yossi ZaidnerBut when anthropologists analyzed the remains of the skull Open gallery viewHomo Nesher Ramle,: The skull parts that were discoveredCredit: Tel Aviv University“It looks nothing like Homo sapiens,” Hershkovitz says The bones displayed a puzzling mosaic of primitive and more advanced features such as an unusually thick skull and a wide The researchers conducted advanced three-dimensional shape analyses and evaluated multiple physical traits to compare them to other known Homo specimens and figure out which species it belongs to Open gallery viewStone tool with serrated edge Nesher RamlaCredit: Tal RogovskiThe Nesher Man skull doesn’t fit any known hominin group says Tel Aviv University anthropologist Hila May Some traits fall within the range of Homo erectus the first hominin to leave Africa and spread across Eurasia around 1.9 million year ago Other features are more typical of Neanderthals particularly the earliest specimens that appear some 400,000 years ago in Europe But what was this unknown and morphologically primitive hominin doing in Israel 140,000-120,000 years ago a relatively recent time (in evolutionary terms) when the Levant was already awash with sapiens while Europe was still firmly in Neanderthal hands And what was the connection of this new Homo species to the rest of our evolutionary tree Hershkovitz and colleagues looked at the morphology of other hominin remains that have been discovered in Israel over the last century in Israel and which date to the Middle Pleistocene the geologic period that goes from 780,000 to 126,000 years ago Scholars have been debating the identity of these fossils for decades but when Hershkovitz and colleagues compared their morphologies to that of the newly uncovered specimen from Nesher Ramla they found that they all fit together in a neat group Open gallery viewA view of Qesem CaveCredit: Ariel David“All of them have very archaic features as well as a similarity to Neanderthal populations,” says dental anthropologist Rachel Sarig “So we think that the Nesher Ramla specimen was actually one of the last survivors of a group that had been around for a very long time The mix of archaic features and Neanderthal traits also suggests that Nesher Man may have been an evolutionary predecessor of the Neanderthals and other hominins that inhabited Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene Until recently scholars firmly believed that Neanderthals evolved in Europe but multiple studies in recent years have already questioned this paradigm and suggested a Middle Eastern origin for them instead The morphology of European hominins from the Middle Pleistocene is extremely variable so much so that scientists doubt that they could all have evolved from a single population on the continent itself Europe was colonized by successive waves of hominins from the Middle East during interglacial periods probably from a common mother population evolving in this latter region.” That mother population has now been identified at the dusty limestone quarry of Nesher Ramla they were Neanderthals before the Neanderthals,” he says This Levantine population did not necessarily spread only west evolving into Homo variants that have been unearthed in East Asia The discovery’s interpretation is likely to spark heated debate among scholars of human evolution it is a “refreshing” find that questions a traditionally linear and simplified scenario for human evolution an anthropologist from the University of Winnipeg “I am not 100 percent sold on the idea that Neanderthals originated in that part of the world Their morphology is quite distinct and arises early on in Europe,” Roksandic tells Haaretz “Ancestral Neanderthals could have quite easily come from the Levant into Western Europe they are unlikely to have had developed Neanderthal morphology right there and then therefore this late specimen cannot really contribute to the debate.” archaeologists in the Levant will have to find more and older skeletons of Homo Nesher Ramla if they want to conclusively prove their case there is already another element that supports Nesher Man’s putative place in the evolutionary tree because it helps explain another mystery in the Neanderthal story how could Neanderthals and sapiens have sex more than 100,000 years ago if they were still separated by thousands of kilometers if we accept that the source population for the Neanderthals came from the Levant then that could explain how sapiens genes made it to Europe tens of thousands of years before our actual ancestors did Open gallery viewSketch imaging the teeth of Homo Nesher RamlaCredit: Ariel Pokhojaev we know that early Homo sapiens was already in the Levant at least 200,000 years ago and must have coexisted with the newly-identified Homo Nesher Ramla at the Nesher site and at nearby sapiens caves there is evidence that the two groups interacted closely because they didn’t just make similar utensils they used the same tool-making technologies “Theoretically you can just find such a tool on the ground and get to a similar shape using different processes but here we see similarities in all the stages of the flint knapping and that is something you need to learn,” he says “So the best explanation for the parallels in the stone tool production techniques is that they learned from each other.” culturally it was very similar to our sapiens ancestors and ostensibly had comparable cognitive abilities close communication suggests that other forms of interaction may have occurred and that this is how the European hominins that possibly descended from Nesher Man carried within them a bit of sapiens DNA It’s not hard to imagine that at some point some guy must have shown off his extensive collection of super-cool last-generation flint tools to the girl from the cave next-door An appropriate amount of oohing and aahing ensued Growing concerns over IDF's ability to track on Tuesday morning a kindergarten teacher rushed her six students to the local safety shelter when she noticed sirens in a nearby town the drone directly hit the building they were in but the children were left completely unharmed “A miracle of miracles happened to us,” said kindergarten teacher Sara Yassour who garnered considerable media attention in Israel on Tuesday Yassour explained her actions in an interview with local media at the scene of the incident in the small northern town of Nesher מגיח לרגע מחופשת מחלה כי חייב לכתוב כמה דברים על אירוע הכטב״ם שהתפוצץ בגן ילדים בעיר נשר הבוקר: 1. נמנע כאן טבח המוני בילדי הגן, והכל בזכות גננת אחת חכמה, שהצילה חיים במעשה הרואי. מגיע לה אות הוקרה מיוחד. היינו יכולים להיות הבוקר באירוע מג׳דל שמס 2, או אפילו חמור וכבד דמים… pic.twitter.com/vY4noQvlqh so I want to first of all give thanks for God’s supervision We made an immediate decision only because we heard a very faint alarm we'll go in [to the shelter]’,” she told Ynet News many northerners have started to mistrust the IDF’s drone alarm warnings after a series of failures and near-catastrophes in recent months Despite alarm sirens being activated in the nearby Krayot area there were no warning sirens in Nesher when Yassour decided to bring the children into the kindergarten’s shelter The site of a Hezbollah drone impact at a kindergarten in the Haifa suburb of Nesher. The children were unharmed. pic.twitter.com/mYiPHmaOZH “We started a morning meeting with the children they were all together and as soon as we heard the alarm and saw that it was a drone ‘we are not taking any risks’ – and in a few seconds we all entered the shelter I think it was only after we got out of there that we realized the magnitude of the miracle because the place of impact was exactly where we were before entering the shelter,” Yassour said Footage from the impact site shows a blackened indentation on one of the outside walls of the building close to the playground where Yassour said the children were playing just before The inside of the building was covered in glass shards but suffered no major damage “When we were inside the shelter we heard a really crazy noise and we realized that it was probably close - but we didn’t realize that it was in our garden Only when we went outside with the children did we understand.” The children were scared but were able to leave the shelter in an orderly fashion before being quickly picked up by their parents shortly after praised the kindergarten staff for their “huge initiative” and thinking ahead while also criticizing the IDF for not activating alarm sirens “It may be that they also need to change a little and refresh their guidelines and activate alarms in more extensive areas certainly when children are in educational institutions But we are here together with the residents we train a lot to continue our routine,” Levy explained The near-catastrophe in Nesher once again underlined serious concerns over the IDF’s ability to track and intercept Hezbollah drones. “We could have been in a Majdal Shams 2 event this morning,” said Kadosh “⁠There is no nice way to say this – the residents of the north do not trust the warnings of the Home Front Command The warnings often turned out to be unreliable,” he argued “I didn't realize it until I went to my parents’ house in the north and one night they woke me up in a panic to enter the shelter then they said there were alarms in a nearby settlement I tried to explain to them innocently." who believes the alarms?’ Only then did I understand how a person who fears for his life and has already lost faith in any military system The incident in Nesher also follows the catastrophic drone strike on the Golani Brigade’s training base that killed four IDF soldiers and wounded 58 others the IDF Home Front Command said that in cases where the IDF loses contact with a drone above Israeli territory wide and ever-growing areas would be covered with alarm sirens until the threat was dealt with It remains unclear why this didn’t happen on Tuesday and the IDF said it was continuing its investigations The IDF estimates that it has so far eliminated around 10% of the operatives of Hezbollah’s Drone Unit 127 which still has around 30% of its drone arsenal The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel The Haifa District Planning and Building Commission has approved a 54-floor tower in the new industrial and residential area on the site of Quarry 4.5 in Nesher This is a huge quarry south east of the Checkpost Junction below the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in Haifa The plan for the site consists of 356,000 square meters of workspace and 1,081 housing units on an area of 19 dunams (4.75 acres) and two 54-floor towers connecting the lowest part of the quarry site with the cable car and the Technion The plan is an initiative of Migdalor Max, owned by Shamgar Vaknin and Ben Max. The tower approved yesterday will contain 165,000 square meters of space, or which 60,000 square meters will be offices, and the rest will be residential and commercial, including student dorms, and there will be parking both above and below ground level. The design is by Miloslavsky Architects who is responsible for the design of the tower together with Itai Dafni "The 'Tower in the Quarry' project will represent a new metropolitan anchor It will be the highest tower in Israel outside of Gush Dan built in a strategic location for business and it will lever the entire area from being a typical industrial zone to a multi-use center of attraction part of an urban belt between Haifa and Nesher." Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on July 27, 2021 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2021 Israel: Nesher-Israel Cement Enterprises has received an order from the Ministry of Environmental Protection to reduce emissions from its Ramle cement plant. BALLEG News has reported that the plant violated pollution rules over non-focal emissions and particle emissions values. Nesher-Israel Cement Enterprises also reportedly failed to submit data about defects, malfunctions and abnormal emissions, following 'several incidents.' The producer previously paid a US$1.64m pollution fine in August 2022. © 2025 Pro Global Media Ltd. 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Enjoy your own private fishing pond and then head to one of Missouri's underrated fishing spots with a stay at this cozy cabin. Thanks for subscribing. We’ll see you in your inbox! © 2025 World of Good Brands. All rights reserved. The Metronit bus rapid transport (BRT) network which operates in Haifa and the Haifa Bay (Kraiot) area is to be extended to Nesher Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz announced today Work carried out by the Yefe Nof Transportation and Infrastructure Construction Co Katz said that the new Metronit line will operate from the Yagur Junction via Bar Yehuda Street in Nesher and onto the Hadar neighborhood of Haifa The estimated cost of the work will be NIS 450 million "The line will significantly shorten journey time between Nesher and Haifa along a 7.2 kilometer exclusive bus lane." The Metronit will replace the current bus services between Nesher and Haifa The frequency of service on the new line will be every 7.5 minutes during peak times and the Nesher - Haifa line will carry over 1 million passengers per year A park and ride car park will be built need Yagur Junction with other such facilities built along the route The Metronit began operating in 2013 and there are currently three lines covering 40 kilometers The first line runs from the norther section of the Kraiot (near the former kurdani IDF base) along Road 4 Histadrut Boulevard and the Haifa Port area to the Hof Hacarmel terminal near the southern entrance to the city The second line runs from Kiryat Ata via Road 4 Histadrut Boulevard and the Haifa Port area to Bat Galim and the third line runs from Kiryat Yam and Kiryat Haim to Hadar in Haifa "The Haifa Municipality is proud to lead in the country's public transport sector and constantly continues to develop the Haifa metropolitan area In the next future thousands of residents will be able to forego their private car and reach Mount Carmel conveniently and quickly from the Nesher and Yagur area." Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 26 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd in Ramla and Lod,” said Benjamin Ruggill leader of the citizen action group demanding clean air in the area of the Nesher plant and a member of Kibbutz Gezer located about 3.5 miles from the factory.“We want to have residents living by the factory checked for other lung diseases to know exactly how bad the damage is,” he told The Media Line.While he was glad to hear of the enforcement steps Ruggill was skeptical about their effectiveness “The ministry has an estimate of the health damage done by the factory and it stands at around $300 million a year [Nesher owner Len] Blavatnik is far away in London and these minor fines don’t even tickle him,” Ruggill said.Blavatnik a British-American billionaire and philanthropist is the controlling owner of Clal Industries He also owns Israel’s Channel 13 and is known for his close ties to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu Blavatnik‘s fortune is estimated at $35 billion.“It’s an administrative procedure that is very significant The fine imposed is unusually high for an environmental issue and the fact that more enforcement procedures are ongoing is also important It’s significant even for a factory this big because they now realize they are at risk of more fines in the future,” said Gidi Mazor head of the central district in the Environmental Protection Ministry.Nesher Ramla is Israel’s third-most polluting factory after two coal-based power plants During the time Likud was in control and Bibi [Netanyahu] was prime minister nothing happened with the factory: no regulation and no enforcement and no fines,” said Ruggill.Mazor denied that the enforcement effort is something new.“I have been in this role since 2008 and the Nesher factory has been keeping us busy ever since We realize how anxious it makes people around it and make every effort to monitor and prevent air pollution regardless of who is the current minister,” he said.Tal also rejected allegations of slow enforcement due to Blavatnik’s connections.“I might have some criticism but in every interaction I had with the Ministry of Environmental Protection I found that people were very eager to help and try to improve the situation,” he told The Media Line.Ruggill also had criticism for the current minister Tamar Zandberg from the left-wing Meretz party who entered the post in June 2021.“Unfortunately the new minister has not been very involved We invited her to the area and updated her on anything that we monitored She never helped us directly,” he said.Ruggill has his own theories as to why the ministry is supposedly not too keen to stop the pollution from Nesher Ramla.“Zandberg’s ministry is in a conflict of interest they want to say they got rid of mass amounts of garbage it’s the most polluting private-sector factory in Israel and it’s located in the center of population affecting millions of people,” he said.“It’s a matter of environmental justice This only could have happened in Ramla and Lod where the population is weaker from the social-economic perspective,” Ruggill said.Nesher did not respond to The Media Line’s inquiries by press time The Environment and Climate Change portal is produced in cooperation with the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The Jerusalem Post maintains all editorial decisions related to the content