82% of beaches reopened to public; cleanup operation to continue

Environmental Protection Ministry says secretive Europe Asia Pipeline Company allegedly violated several laws, after initial investigation into Ashkelon toxic event

Analysis of tar from Haifa, Netanya, Ashdod expected to shore up Environment Ministry move to win claim from International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund over oil spill disaster

Environmental Protection Ministry says large chunks found on Neve Yam Beach, several other locations in northern Israel; cleanup efforts in progress

Environmental Protection Ministry says tar levels are no longer hazardous, but warns that pollutants may wash up again on recently cleared areas

Authorities open additional 40 beaches to public, but warn more tar could still wash up

Authorities say tar cleanup has been completed at over a dozen sites, following devastating environmental disaster

Defense minister not yet ruling out environment minister's charges that disaster was an Iranian act of eco-terrorism, but so far no proof found

Gila Gamliel keeps claiming the oil spill polluting Israel's beaches was deliberately engineered by Tehran. Offering no proof, she makes Israel look paranoid, conspiratorial

Intelligence apparatuses reportedly recruited to investigate matter; Greenpeace says 'outrageous and factually baseless' claim of terrorism minimizes environmental issue