Several former senior officials at Europe Asia Pipeline Company also hit with fines over pair of incidents that badly polluted seasonal river in southern Israel

Environmental Protection Ministry, which brought criminal case, and environmental organizations, welcome judgment and imposition of personal responsibility on senior staff

Addressing claim against Rotem Amfert Negev for waste contamination, toxicologist Shlomo Almog says uranium leaves the body quickly, can be washed off skin with soap and water

Rotem Amfert, already responsible for Ashalim ecological disaster in 2017, to be investigated for flow of chemical sludge into open pits in February