More than a hundred days needed for environmental rehabilitation – this is what will be done

MK Gaby Lasky (The Democrats) publishes an environmental platform that includes advancing a Basic Law: Environment, rehabilitating aquifers, abolishing the VATMAL (National Committee for Preferred Housing Complexes), a soil pollution law, and establishing an independent animal welfare authority. The article criticizes the policies of former minister Idit Silman.

MK Gaby Lasky (The Democrats) publishes an environmental policy platform ahead of the next Knesset. At the center of the platform: advancing a Basic Law: Environment, which would establish a constitutional right to a healthy environment. Lasky commits to bringing back the stalled Climate Law, and to promoting aquifer rehabilitation, a soil pollution law, and the abolition of the VATMAL (National Committee for Preferred Housing Complexes) in favor of more transparent and democratic planning. The platform also includes establishing an independent animal welfare authority, expanding marine reserves, and requiring street shading. The article sharply criticizes the policies of former minister Idit Silman, who it claims turned the Ministry of Environmental Protection into a 'partner of the polluters.' Lasky declares that 'canceling what was done in the government of abandonment is not enough' and that her party is leading a vision for systemic change.