Give Israelis credit, they are not that stupid. The most important part of the article is the second to last paragraph ""Given the area's real estate potential, the City's conduct is problematic " They knew what they were doing, they Olmertized the pond.

The mosquito issue is well known from these areas, and the city has an active program to protect against mosquitos due to the viruses they carry. This entire article is one big SPNI advertisement. I am a local resident near the ponds - I'm sorry, but frogs are not going to do it. The life of residents takes precedence, there's also a major park (pillbox) nearby where families gather by the 1000s.

the superiors had their eye on the real estate... So many Nobel Prizes going to waste..... TATA

Believe me, what was sprayed on that lake is toxic but toxins are also being sprayed worldwide in aerial chemtrails to reduce the world population and contaminate the soil and water and food. Then there is Fukushima Dai-Ichi and the winds blowing radiation around the world which so far is ten times worse than Chernobyl that contaminated the world's fresh water supplies according to a book by Dr. David Edwards of Clovis, California, the Physician of the Year for California and America years ago.

how about giving a fine to the city of Holon. Maybe the voters will remember their leaders negligence, once election time comes around.

The right hand knew EXACTLY what the left hand was doing. Let's just see how quickly that area gets gobbled up by a developer, and who signs off on the deal.