The Tel Aviv District Court recently allowed a motion to certify a class action against the Volkswagen Group and its importer in Israel, Champion Motors Ltd. The class action focuses on the Dieselgate scandal, after an...more
11/10/2022
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The Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court has set a fine totaling ILS 340,000 on Kishle House (which operates the Setai Hotel in Jaffa) and on two company officers after the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection filed an...more
The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection announced this week its imposition of a pecuniary sanction totaling about ILS 3 million on the leading supermarket chain Shufersal for violations of the Clean Air Law. (In...more
About seven years ago, one of the worst ecological disasters in Israel’s history occurred. During work to divert an oil pipeline, one of the old pipelines belonging to the government company Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co. Ltd....more
11/23/2021
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection imposed a financial sanction of NIS 634,000 on Gadiv Petrochemical Industries of the Bazan Group, following the company’s violation of the terms of an emission permit....more