Environmental Protection and Energy ministries trying to reach pre-election deal on renewable targets and whether Israel can move to almost total reliance on sun by 2050

Scholars from Israel and elsewhere issue stark plea for international community to remove 1 million barrels from ship stuck for five years, or face devastation of vital ecosystem

Environmental groups hope new index excluding oil and gas firms from TA-125 will help wean institutional investors off industries driving harmful climate change

Cooperation must include adversaries, says energy expert Brenda Shaffer, doubting that either East Med gas pipe to Europe or big Israeli role in Europe-bound Gulf oil will take off

Despite activists' calls for urgent public debate about oil giant's pollution record, Yuval Steinitz 'confident' that $5 billion deal to buy Noble Energy will be approved

Demanding debate on oil giant getting Noble Energy's Mediterranean stakes, campaigners say Chevron avoiding $9.5b payout for 'Chernobyl of the Amazon' spill, boding ill for Israel

Benchmark crude prices go up by $10, a percentage climb unseen since 1991 Gulf War, amid the worst disruption to world supplies on record

Adrian Darya 1 turns off tracking beacon 45 nautical miles from port of Tartus, renewing speculation the vessel is delivering 2 million barrels of crude oil to Assad regime

Two pumping stations hit, bringing flow of crude to a halt; Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim responsibility for assaults