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The tourists demand: "NIS 8.5 million compensation for the fright of the mouse" | Israel today

2019-12-04T04:53:23.821Z


Galilee tourism business claims NIS 8.5 million from the state: "Image damage was created due to a false intimidation campaign on pollution in the north


Tourism business in the Galilee against the state: "Image damage was created due to false intimidation campaign for pollution in streams in the north while spreading only in the southern Golan" • Ministry of Health: "We will respond accordingly"

The kayak business in the Upper Galilee filed a $ 8.5 million tort claim in Nazareth District Court yesterday (Tuesday) for the economic damages they suffered following the "panic" of the August 2018 riots.

Mouse panic: Clean water starts flowing into the Golan Heights // Photo: Uri Vazna, Nature and Parks Authority

The lawsuit was filed through attorneys David and Chaya Mena, on behalf of the Jordan River rafting, the Bridge of Bridges, Kfar Blum kayaks and Beit Hillel and Abu Kayak. The kayak business claims that the relevant government offices were negligent in their role of "sowing panic" among the public from entering all the northern rivers while the streams that were contaminated were in the southern Golan Heights - causing many cancellations in the tourism business and staying away from the area at the height of the tourist season.

"The plaintiffs suffered image damage and damage to the good oil as a result of the sweeping publications issued by the Ministry of Health, which issued a scare campaign that addressed all the streams in the north of the country, while some of the northern streams were not affected at all and were clean and clean of the mouse disease," wrote Adv. In the lawsuit.

"Ministry of Health leaked false information about the spread of northern mouse disease, without separating infected water sources and streams that had nothing to do with the mouse disease. Ministry of Health's summer 2018 publications about northern river mouse disease caused panic and panic among the public. "The travelers hiked their feet from the north and the harm to the plaintiffs was extremely difficult."

It is also alleged that, although years before the outbreak of the mouse caused by the discharge of cattle and wildlife effluents, the Ministry of the Environment invited reports from experts who allegedly offered simple and inexpensive solutions to prevent pollution in streams, it did nothing to promote them until summer 2018. "In early 2012, the ministry appointed Environmental Protection Committee of experts to make recommendations for a program to prevent water sources pollution by grazing cattle in the Sea of ​​Galilee basin by placing troughs for cattle, the lawsuit states.

"It also states that the commission submitted the report containing its recommendations during June 2012. This report, according to the lawsuit, joined another expert report filed earlier (in 2007) and the 2011 state comptroller's report that alerted him to failure The Ministry of the Environment's hand. "Among other things, the Comptroller's report (referring to the Ministry of the Environment) states:" The findings indicate that the Ministry did not advance its policy on: Restoration of rivers primarily means water rehabilitation and habitat restoration, "the State Comptroller was quoted in writing. The prosecution.

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The lawsuit also states that it was only during the past year that actual operations in the field began to implement the conclusions of the 2012 report for placing troughs for cattle and wildlife near streams.

The Ministry of Health said : "The claim has not yet been forwarded to the Ministry of Health. When accepted, we will study it and respond in court as is customary."

The Ministry of the Environment said : "The government's decision to remove cattle from water sources to reduce environmental and health pollution was approved in March 2019, which states that each body will act - in accordance with its powers, to monitor and act to reduce pollution in streams. In 2012, the Ministry of the Environment prepared a plan to remove cattle from water sources. With the aim of reducing environmental pollution caused by nutrient enrichment (nitrogen and phosphorus) in the stream, the program was not related to public health issues at all and the issue in particular, and last summer, the ministry led a government decision based on the relevant sections of the 2012 plan, and health aspects were added.

"The government's approved plan of action in March 2019 promotes a range of bodies, including the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the relevant local authorities, the Kinneret Drainage Authority, the Nature and Parks Authority and the water authority. Each factor in accordance with its actual powers.

The actions set out in the plan: removing grazing from streams, through the construction of troughs, streams and shading (led by the Nature and Parks Authority); Vaccination of herds in the basin against the mouse disease (led by the Ministry of Agriculture), monitoring of bacteria for the presence of bacteria (led by the Ministry of Health) and monitoring wildlife for disease factors (led by the Nature and Parks Authority). "

Source: israelhayom

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