Just have a look at Yavne which gets the emissions from the Ashdod industrial areas and the refinery with the West wind. Well, the country is small and in the metropolitan regions overcrowded.

When it comes between the value of life and making money; money usually wins. Let's see if the government of Israel will take the high road and do the right thing: shut down the plants until they comply with environmental regulation. Haifa is not the only heavily polluted area...Ashdod follows closely, but there has been noticeable improvement in the air quality, since the power plant switched from coal to gas!

ALL factories dealing with dangerous chemicals and even non-dangerous crap, in ALL of israel should be eliminated. Israel is too tiny to absorb all the poisons and kill its people. What was ok 40 yrs, it's not OK Today.