Chemicals

Suspected hazardous materials leak in Jerusalem, two elderly people found unconscious

Magen David Adom teams are treating two people in their 70s and 80s who were found unconscious but breathing, lying on the floor of a bedroom.

Israeli firefighters at the scene where a kid in a critical condition after a fire broke at an apartment in Ramot, Jerusalem, December 3, 2025.
Hazardous material contained at Haifa factory August 17 2026

Worker exposed to hazardous substance in Shlomi factory, Fire and Rescue units dispatched

United Hatzalah volunteers at the scene of a fire in Sderot's industrial area, July 27, 2026.

Massive fire breaks out in southern Israel factories, hazardous leak ruled out

Security personnel stand outside the complex of Indian Oil Corporations (Indian Oil Corporation) IOCs refinery in Haldia, West Bengal on December 22, 2021 a day after three people reportedly lost their lives in a fire incident in the plant.

Massive fire at Haldia Petrochemicals' plant in India, several workers injured, local media says


Gadiv Petrochemical fined NIS 634k for Haifa Bay pollution

Environmental Protection Minister MK Gila Gamliel declared in response to the decision, that "the closure of polluting factories from Haifa Bay has begun."

Oil spill at Haifa harbor

Hummus: Advocacy group concerned over health of supermarket brands

The Environmental Working Group is an advocacy organization, funded in part by the organic food industry, that commissions research on the health of consumer products.

Hummus and Falafel, Israel's favorite chickpea-based dishes

Fire breaks out at petrochemical facility in southwest Iran

There have been several explosions around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.

View of a damage building after a fire broke out at Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility, in Isfahan, Iran, July 2, 2020.

More evidence vaping is not a healthy alternative to cigarettes

New studies show possible link between vaping and pulmonary disease

person smoking an ecigarette

Exiled Thai critic attacked with chemicals in Japan

Neither was seriously hurt, but Pavin said they have been told by police not to return home.

UN chemical weapons experts inspect alleged chemical samples from an attack in Syria, 2013

Differences between luxurious and chemical toilets is important

Use of high doses of acid or bleach-based detergents, even when not mixed together, can cause serious irritation to the skin, the eyes and the breathing system.


Britain says Russia secretly stockpiling deadly nerve agent used in attack

Britain and Russia have each expelled 23 diplomats over the attack as relations between the two countries crash to a post-Cold War low.

Emergency services wearing protective clothing work near the bench where former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned in Salisbury, Britain, March 13, 2018.

There is no Planet B

The government and NGOs are trying to win a war against pollutants in our environment, but Israel still has a long way to go.

Cartoon pollution

After 'Sea of Plastic' found in Caribbean, one Israeli firm is off to the rescue

Kibbutz-based Infimer seeks to alleviate $40 billion-a-year cost of plastics pollution.

Plastic pollution