Environment minister says disaster is a case of 'malice' on part of ship owner with 'no compassion,' demands government reconsider plan to increase crude shipments via Israel

As more tar washes up on beaches, ministry seeks companies that can map contamination, establish cleanup priorities, offer ways to help to get hard-to-remove tar off rocks

Environmental advocacy body Adam Teva V'Din calls on Environment Ministry to update public 'in real time' and 'with maximum transparency'

Greenpeace says spillages are 'a stain on the government' for consistently ignoring calls to monitor and prepare for toxic pollution

Environmental Protection Ministry team checks Minerva Helen in Piraeus port, eliminates it from list of dozens of tankers under investigation for massive tar contamination

Responding to accusation of lagging in both cleanup and investigation, official says 'no one in the Mediterranean knew about it'; says at least 5 ships suspected

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Funds bugeted to deal with contamination caused by offshore oil spill that has shuttered most of Israel's Mediterranean coast; Haifa court drops media gag order on spill probe

Kan news says that the Minerva Helen, said to be involved in major oil spill near Copenhagen in 2008, is under investigation; shipping company denies involvement in both incidents

Experts call the spill Israel's worst beach contamination in memory, and they fear much marine life has been wiped out. Nobody can say how long recovery will take