Dozens of failures and alarms this year lead Environment Ministry to weigh new penalties for operator of the Leviathan natural gas platform over permit violations

Move would bring environmental benefits and could save state NIS 850 million per year, Knesset committee hears

Mini-rebellion as PM struggles to divvy out limited number of portfolios to senior lawmakers in his own party; Gantz finds out about 'request' for delay from media

Ashkenazi takes foreign affairs, Nissenkorn justice, Tamano-Shata immigration, Hendel comms; highest-ranking woman in Blue and White forgoes portfolio to head up environment panel

Medical interns protest against 26-hour shifts; demonstrators opposed to PM rally in Rabin Square, at Blue and White MKs' homes; parents decry limit on number of kids at daycares

In run-up to national tree planting holiday, Knesset study shows 40,000 licenses granted to uproot 376,000 trees over six years -- most to make way for building

Stunning conference, Ze'ev Elkin devotes address to excoriating organizations for 'deliberate distortion,' especially those that campaigned against offshore extraction facility

With public pressure behind it, Environmental Protection Ministry strides toward solar energy. But Energy Ministry still issues permits for oil, gas, fracking, though it cuts coal

Determined not to stand idly by in the face of environmental degradation, animal rights campaigner Miki Haimovich eyes Environmental Protection Ministry

Former justice minister responds after prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has 'no place for the female role' in explaining opposition to her leading the religious right