Tamar Zandberg

Uri Zaki raised 734,000 shekels in 2017-2022 for his nonprofit from the New Israel Fund, a U.S.-based NGO that supports progressive groups in Israel.

It aims to increase water levels and ensure a constant flow throughout the year, turning the area into a diverse biological ecosystem and a tourist destination.

“It’s 2021. The world is changing … Israel cannot afford to be left behind,” says Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg from the U.N. Climate Change Convention in Glasgow.

“The climate crisis is one of the major issues on the world agenda. It concerns the lives of all of us,” says the Israeli prime minister.

Some praise the plan, saying Israel must act as the “science is in,” and the world faces an imminent global climate crisis. Others scoff at the “so-called science” and say there’s no justification for overhauling Israel’s economy—that it will be “all pain, no gain.”

“Immediate action must be taken to reduce the amount of waste for landfill by increasing recycling,” says newly sworn-in Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg.

“The Gulf of Eilat is in real danger because of the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline,” says Tamar Zandberg.