The Ministry of Environmental Protection increases enforcement against those who throw waste on the beaches: allocated one million shekels for enforcement hours by Israel Police officers alongside coastal authority inspectors; 18 authorities in Israel will receive more than 2021 hours of policing during the 7,000 bathing season in order to deter litter criminals on the beaches and reduce damage to the coastal and marine environment
The holiday began with a decrease in the cleanliness of the open (undeclared) beaches in Israel: according to the "Clean Beach" index data of the Ministry of Environmental Protection for the second half of the month (until June 30), 69.23% of the measured beaches were rated as "clean" to "very clean", compared to 77% in the previous index as well as in the corresponding period last year. The percentage of clean beaches 70% from the beginning of 2021 stands at 71.21%.
Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg:
In the summer months we are all on the beaches of Israel, enjoying the sea and our beautiful beaches. It is important that we all take care to preserve and protect the country's beaches, avoid using polluting single-use plastic, and not leave waste behind after visiting the beach. The ministry will continue to maintain and protect the beaches and the marine environment through budgeting, enforcement and supervision, so that the sea remains clean.
The cleanest coastal authority in the vicinity of Haifa (having a score of "very clean") is Kiryat Yam.
Coastal authorities with a "medium" average score are: Nahariya, Acre, Haifa and the Carmel Coast. It should be noted that the responsibility for cleaning the beaches under review rests with the coastal local authorities.
As part of the Ministry of Environmental Protection's Clean Coast Program, the National Unit for the Protection of the Marine Environment initiates assistance to the coastal authorities in carrying out enforcement actions on the beaches during the summer months. This year, the ministry is allocating one million shekels, twice the amount allocated last year, for the purpose of strengthening the supervisory power of the coastal authorities by Israel Police officers, who will accompany the inspectors in supervision and enforcement operations, with the aim of creating a deterrent against waste criminals on the beaches, and reducing the damage to the coastal and marine environment .
The authorities in the Haifa region and the surrounding area, which will receive more than 2021 hours of policing during the 7,000 bathing season, are: The Carmel Coast Regional Council, Haifa Municipality, Tirat Carmel Municipality, Acre Municipality and Kiryat Yam Municipality.
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As part of the enforcement activity, vacationers who litter the beach may be fined up to NIS 750 for throwing waste, due to the high sensitivity of the beaches. In 2020, similar support was carried out in the area of 13 coastal authorities, with the assistance of 398 police officers, and 1,012 fines for cleaning offenses were distributed.
From studies in the world and in Israel, it appears that Israel's beaches lead negatively in terms of the percentage of plastic in marine waste both compared to the Mediterranean Sea and the world average. As a member state of the Barcelona Convention, the State of Israel is committed to the Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea from marine and coastal waste. According to this plan, the member states must take a long series of actions to minimize the dimensions of the marine waste phenomenon and its harmful effects on the marine environment of the sea and the population living on its shores.
In 2020-2021, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is supporting the coastal authorities in their area of undeclared bathing beaches to the extent of NIS 9,508,181. This budget is used by the authorities to carry out cleaning operations on open sea beaches that are not declared for bathing in their area.
The management of the cleaning fund also approved a multi-year budget for the "Clean Beach" program in the amount of approximately NIS 44 million, a budget that comes from the funds levied by the law to reduce the use of disposable carrier bags. According to the approved action plan for the next three years (2021-2023), the "Clean Beach" program will continue to work to change awareness of the importance of the sea and beaches and to strengthen taking personal responsibility, and will also focus on enforcement, cleaning, reduction at source and monitoring of plastic waste. All this, with the aim of minimizing the amount of coastal waste in Israel and working to clean the beaches and the sea, in relation to a clear environmental result index and in accordance with the international commitment, for the benefit of the environment and the public in Israel.
In addition, the ministry for the first time allocated NIS 2 million to support the coastal authorities to reduce the plastic waste hazard on the beaches before it reaches the shore and the sea. The support enables the establishment of garbage collection infrastructures on undeclared beaches, surface runoff waste collection facilities and infrastructure facilities to encourage the use of reusable tools. This support is conditional on the authority's commitment to promoting a municipal bylaw against the use of disposable utensils on the beaches and the payment is conditional on the approval protocol of the law by the authority's council or plenum.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection urges vacationers and travelers to leave the disposable dishes at home, not to leave waste on the beaches and enjoy beaches and seas free of plastic! Disposable, not in my sea!
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The municipality of Haifa bullies the residents with the support of the mayor. I was sitting in the sea at noon after some difficult events in the personal pan. I cracked kernels over a table and some of the kernels flew to the floor. A group of inspectors attacked me except for 1 Jewish woman, all of them from the sector including the person in charge and the lady was sitting with 2 young guys from the sector. I received a 750 NIS fine. The explanations didn't help. The request to pick up the seeds in order to avoid a fine didn't help. Being an unemployed father of 3 small children didn't help. But the 2 young men from one of the villages in the area who were single and broke like me got out without a fine. I don't want to say racist enforcement. But Undoubtedly selective enforcement. Appeals to the mayor of Saghnia or their legal office did not help. I will meet with them in court
Well done! It will finally be clean here like in Europe!
It's a big confusion, I've been chased by the municipality for over a week because of neighbors who threw old furniture in a green area under a playground. Everything is documented and photographed, inspectors have already arrived 3 times, got an exact name and address and think they did something? They didn't give anything, not even a fine, and the scrap is still in the same place. Really green Haifa
Those who are supposed to protect the environment, do not pass on the danger of the wild pigs that proliferated in Carmel, polluting causing damage and endangering citizens in Haifa. We are lucky that they are still not infected with rabies
In my dream they would move to another place from the danger of wild pigs to an agricultural area where vines and many types of fruit trees have been growing for decades.?????
Transferring dirt from my plate to someone else's clean plate, not a very smart nor sane idea.
An easy patron of those who do not have the appropriate training that will enable them to deal with the burning and existing problem in Haifa.
Imagine the gardener coming to take care of my garden and sweep my dirt into the neighbor's yard.
A good surgeon removes infected tissue from the body in order to stop the spread of the disease. Or in case of necrosis, the amputation of the organ that necroses is "sharp and smooth" without sentiments.
Avraham Alon, who takes pity on the pigs, is cruel to the merciful citizens
The trouble of many is half comfort or the comfort of fools
What happy news! It's time and not only on the beaches but in general and it's also time for the dog owners who leave their feces outside and in abundance to be fined! They let their dogs go out alone to relieve themselves and come back or they go with them with like a bag in their hand that stays forever because God forbid they don't clean up after them. Waiting for more good news just don't forget to enforce!
Thank you Tamar, I believe from the majority of Haifa residents
A month ago there was a lynching here where they threw stones at buildings, burned trash cans and cars and littered the streets
I did not hear Knesset member Zandberg's voice against the Arab rioters. Now she is the minister of the environment.. irony
The environment she lives in is a bubble.
Nice..excellent..it's time to fine the polluters...we'll see when it works..only then will I believe it....the problem in our country is enforcement...
The mermaid will complain to the municipality about the inspector
There is no connection between religious and secular, everyone is equal before the law
A welcome initiative, it should also be everywhere, not just at the beach
Bathers on the separate beach in Ashkelon have immunity from throwing garbage on the beach. I contacted the inspector and took a picture of how they leave the beach like a trash can. The inspector said that religious people do not accept shame. This is how far the corruption has gone.
One dirt is enough to be caught and fined and the beach will immediately become clean down to the last grain of sand.
It is forbidden to throw waste on the beach.