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	Kishon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kishon River is a river in Israel that flows into the Mediterranean Sea at the city of Haifa.
		Considered the most polluted river in Israel, it has been the subject of controversy regarding the struggle to improve the water quality.
		It is often claimed today that there are more chemicals than water in the river, and that washing ones hands in this river can cause severe chemical burns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kishon_River (135 words)

	ýEstablishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the past, the natural sources of the river were trapped for drinking and agriculture purposes.
		ýDownstream, the river is impacted by the infiltration of seawater in a daily cycle of ebb and flow, which bestows it with the unique character of an estuary, and by elevated and saline groundwater.
		At the entrance of the Zippori River into the Kishon, some 7 kilometers from the point of discharge to the sea, the polluted section of the river begins.
	www.kishon.org.il /establish.htm (452 words)

	Haifa Chemicals Sludge and Kishon River Mud Contaminated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A similar toxic cocktail in higher concentrations was also found in dredged mud from the Kishon River where many industries including the US-owned Haifa Chemicals dump their outflows.
		Three samples from the Kishon River mud and two from the tank of the ship "Aribel" in Haifa Port were taken by Greenpeace activists last April 13, before the ship dumped its toxic content in the Mediterranean Sea.
		The dredged mud from the Kishon River cannot be applied to soils or dumped in the sea as was raised as an option by officials.
	www.fluoridealert.org /pollution/1368.html (764 words)

	Brownflower Artists Group: The Kishon Group
		The Kishon Group is named after the river Kishon because the river itself is a kind of starting point for the philosophical explorations of the group.
		The Kishon river is a symbolic river in Israel that aptly reflects the relationship between humans and nature because of its extremely polluted water (a result of the chemical industry on the northern bank).
		The artists of the Kishon Group present themselves in an intensive post-modern look by a mixture of different genres, styles, and techniques which might be broadly catagorized with words such as "Expressionism," "Surrealism," "Fantasy," "Abstract," "Cinematographism," "Collage," "Comics," "Maximalism," and "Virtual Reality" in handmade form.
	members.aol.com /dream8673/kishonpage.htm (228 words)

	Fire at polluting Chemical company \| Greenpeace International
		Kishon, Israel — Spreading thick fl smoke across the Haifa Bay area, a major fire broke out on Tuesday at the Haifa Chemicals factory near this northern coastal city in Israel.
		Its factory along the bank of the Kishon river has been operating since 1966, and up to last year it discharged an average of five million litres of toxic effluents each day.
		The 200 or so fishermen of the area, who regularly have to replace parts of their boats corroded by the acidic water, show an astonishing cancer rate of 20 percent, and 19 have already died from cancer.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/fire-at-polluting-chemical-com (582 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| The Holy Land's poisonous river
		The landscape is clogged with factories, belching fire from their towers, and the Kishon River that was once the lifeblood of the region has turned to a stinking trench of poison.
		Yellow froth clings to the river's surface as pipes from the nearby factories and the local sewage plant spew a vile cocktail of biological waste, chemicals, mercury and even arsenic into its waters.
		Some of these men spent hundreds of hours in the Kishon, diving in the river, breathing in the fumes, and sometimes even swallowing the water which was trapped in their diving masks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_941000/941317.stm (916 words)

	ýEstablishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Kishon River is one of Israel's largest and most important rivers.
		The Kishon widens for the last two miles, and there are large bushes on its banks, but mostly on the north shoreBustards
		The Kishon River Authority is responsible for the last 25 kilometers downstream.
	www.kishon.org.il /time.htm (424 words)

	GREENPEACE BLOCKS DISCHARGES OF CARCINOGENIC WASTE INTO ISRAEL'S DIRTIEST RIVER
		Research published last month by Professor Eli Richter from the University of Jerusalem, concludes that the Kishon pollution is the direct cause of the cancers discovered amongst at least twenty commandos who were required to dive in the polluted waters as part of their routine training.
		Greenpeace alerted the authorities of the threat the Kishon River to human health and the environment in 1995, but no action was taken.
		Today, the environmental organisation expressed concern that the full extent of the damage to public health and the environment caused by the Kishon River pollution may be greater than is currently recognised.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/toxics/2000jun14.html (629 words)

	Environment groups warn Israel against polluting in the Mediterranean Sea
		As part of a master plan to clean up the polluted river, a pipe is to be built that will bypass the river and allow the factories to dump wastewater containing certain types of salts directly to the Mediterranean.
		The push to clean up the Kishon began in 2000 when it was revealed that 40 out of 750 divers of an elite navy unit had contracted cancer after carrying out diving exercises in the river.
		The Kishon River and Haifa Bay are lined with chemical factories, which have been dumping their waste into the waterway for decades.
	www.uswaternews.com /archives/arcglobal/2envgro1.html (474 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That was before Tamir knew that the mouth of the Kishon River, where it opens into the Mediterranean and where Israel's elite commando units trained for 25 years, was contaminated with toxins and carcinogens from nearby industries.
		It was before he believed the river caused his cancer, and before he realized the military would refuse to help pay for his expensive treatments.
		The Kishon River is a roughly 5-mile-long estuary in northern Israel that empties into Haifa Bay.
	www.intelihealth.com /pcn/general/00294341.htm (1391 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A 1999 report on river pollution by the Israeli environmental group, Adam Teva Ve Din, cited the 63-km (39-mile) Kishon as "one of the most stricken and polluted rivers in Israel".
		The Kishon River Authority described it as an "open sewage canal" - a waterway filled with industrial chemicals and municipal sewage as it approaches the Israeli port of Haifa.
		Another polluted river, the Yarkon, led to the deaths in 1997 of two Australian athletes after a bridge collapsed during opening ceremonies in Tel Aviv for the "Jewish Olympics".
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=11786 (585 words)

	Water Conflict Chronology
		God sends heavy rainfall in the mountains, and the Kishon River overflows the plain and immobilizes or destroys Sisera's technologically superior forces ("...the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, and the clouds also dropped water," Judges 5:4; "...The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon," Judges 5:21).
		Other historians argue the Cyrus needed the water to maintain his troops on their southward journey, while another asserts that the construction was an attempt to win the confidence of the locals.
		Partition divides the Ganges River between Bangladesh and India; construction of the Farakka barrage by India, beginning in 1962, increases tension; short-term agreements settle dispute in 1977-82, 1982-84, and 1985-88, and thirty-year treaty is signed in 1996.
	www.worldwater.org /conflict.htm (2700 words)

	GREENPEACE REVEALS CULPRITS OF RIVER POLLUTION LINKED TO CANCER IN ISRAELI MARINE COMMANDOS
		The Israeli commandos had been diving in the Kishon River as part of their routine training.
		For years, Greenpeace says the Kishon River is more polluted than the Yarkon River, known for causing the death of four Australian athletes who fell into the river when the bridge collapsed in the 1997 Jewish Olympics.
		These protocols ban industrial and other toxic discharges along the coast and in rivers, waste dumping at sea, toxic and nuclear waste trade in the basin, and protect the biodiversity of the basin.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/toxics/2000may26.html (748 words)

	Environmental Health Perspectives: Cancer risks in naval divers with multiple exposures to carcinogens - Environmental ...
		Since the late 1940s, the Kishon River and Haifa Bay served as a training site for recruits and naval commandos, an elite and highly select group in the Israeli military (Figure 1).
		Samples were taken along the length of the river from its source to the Haifa Bay.
		The divers reported spending an average 15-20 hr/week under water in the Kishon and other adjacent sites during their first year of training, and thereafter 10 hr/week for the next 3 years of their service, for a total of 45 weeks/year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_4_111/ai_102102833 (1418 words)

	British-Israeli Water Management and Treatment Workshop
		The plant’s effluents have been flowing into the Kishon River, a small regional stream, flowing from Jesrael Valley into the Haifa Bay.
		Haifa-Chemicals’s effluents constitute one of the principal contributors to the deterioration of the river.
		This would entail gradually ceasing the flow of effluents into the river, unless they are treated up to a level that would enable the re-introduction of recreational activities.
	econ.haifa.ac.il /~shechter/Haifa-Ch.htm (895 words)

	Bible Topics: Rivers
		Isaiah 23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
		Exodus 2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
		Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
	www.bible-topics.com /Rivers.html (3147 words)

	Israeli Soldiers Get Cancer From Toxic Waste Dumped In Mediterranean
		The river has become so polluted with the toxic waste that it poses a severe environmental hazard and has been linked to the development of cancers in at least twenty marine commando soldiers who used to dive in its waters as part of their routine training <#one(1).
		The activists stopped the pollution reaching the river by redirecting the effluent pipe and returning the waste to the Gadot Biochemicals factory, one of the seven companies responsible for discharging toxic waste <#two(2).
		Currently, the Israeli authorities are suggesting that a five- kilometre by-pass pipe is constructed to redirect the toxic effluent that has killed the Kishon River to the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.rense.com /general3/medit.htm (671 words)

	Environmental Health Perspectives: Cancer risk to naval divers questioned - Correspondence
		(2003) on increased risk for cancer in naval commando divers in the Kishon River in Israel, there are three systematic errors in estimating the degree of exposure to environmental water contaminants (their Table 3).
		In fact, the observed concentrations of suspended particulate matter and particulate heavy metals in the Kishon River (Herut and Kress 1997) were 2-4 orders of magnitude lower than those reported by Richter et al.
		Report of the Investigation Committee for the Effects of Military Activities in the Kishon River and the Region's Water on the Health of IOF Soldiers Activated There [in Hebrew].
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_12_111/ai_109567716 (1019 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		Commanders brushed aside his health concerns and Tamir logged 1,100 hours in the dark waters during a 23-year career _ until he was diagnosed with skin and colon cancer 18 months ago.
		The Kishon River and the adjacent Haifa Bay are lined by chemical companies that have been pouring toxic waste into the water for decades.
		While the Ministry of Environmental Protection pollution levels have dropped in recent years, the river is still considered a health hazard, with signs along its banks prohibiting swimming.
	www.earthchangestv.com /biology/August2000/PrintFriendly/0825cancer.htm (749 words)

	Misc Study: Ehud Barak, Israel's New Prime Minister
		Barak means "lightning" or "lightning flash" and Deborah means "bee." These two come on the scene after Israel had again done evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud's death, and had been sold into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan.
		The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon." Keil and Delitzsch explain: "For not only did the Israelites fight against them, but the powers of heaven also.
		Megiddo and the Kishon River are very interesting places, especially with regards to the book of Revelation.
	philologos.org /bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms026.htm (2400 words)

	Israeli soldiers sue over cancer, other illnesses - 07/26/00
		HAIFA, Israel -- It's the smell of the Kishon River that first hits you, long before the murky, oily waters are visible.
		Like hundreds of other divers, he trained in the Kishon, a river that seemingly everyone has always known was the most polluted in the country, ringed as it is by refineries and chemical plants.
		It took 40 minutes with caustic horse soap to remove the river water from his skin after every dive.
	www.detnews.com /2000/health/0007/26/a16-96166.htm (527 words)

	Gulf of Haifa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulf of Haifa (also called Haifa Bay) is a small bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel.
		Fed by the Kishon River, the cities of Haifa and Akko are on its shores.
		South of the bay rises beautiful Mount Carmel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Haifa (144 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is much damaging evidence connecting the pollution to the cancer among navy personnel, including a May 2000 Greenpeace report documenting tested water samples were highly toxic.
		Many of the former navy commandos have been diagnosed with cancer, and they insist the cause was the training in the heavily polluted Kishon River which was used as a dumping site for chemical plants.
		The river has since been declared off-limits to swimmers, fishermen, and anyone wishing to enter it.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=42285 (240 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Committee chair, retired Justice Meir Shamgar, held a minority opinion directly linking the Kishon pollution to the incidence of cancer among the commandos, and placed the onus on the military and government.
		The river was used as a dumping site for chemical plants, yet IDF naval commandos were using it as a training site as well.
		However, after evidence of the extent of the pollution in the Kishon became public, it was declared off-limits to swimmers, fishermen, and anyone wishing to enter it.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=42324 (171 words)

	Israelis treat the earth like they do other races - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For decades, factories have been discharging untreated waste into the Kishon River, which empties into the Mediterranean at Haifa Bay north of Tel Aviv.
		As part of a master plan to clean up the polluted river, a bypass pipe would be built to carry factory wastewater with certain types of salts directly to the sea.
		The push to clean up the Kishon began in 2000 when it was revealed that 40 out of 750 divers of an elite navy unit, who had carried out diving exercises in the river, contracted cancer.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=8856 (398 words)

	Kishon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Qishon =tortuous], intermittent river, c.45 mi (70 km) long, rising below Mt. Gilboa, N Israel, and flowing NW to the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa; only the lower 7-mi (11.3-km) section is a permanent stream.
		In the Bible, the defeat of Sisera and the slaying by Elijah of the prophets of Baal occurred on the river bank; an alternate spelling is Kison.
		Ephraim Kishon, leading Israeli satirist, dies at 80 in Switzerland
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kishon.asp (301 words)

	E-LAW E-Bulletin: Haifa Chemicals Agrees to Curb Kishon Pollution
		For years, Haifa Chemicals, a manufacturer of phosphate fertilizer, had been discharging 1.5 million tons of toxic effluents into the Kishon River annually.
		Haifa Chemicals, one of the main polluters of the Kishon River, this week promised an environmental organization that it would significantly curb its flow of poisonous and carcinogenic waste, an unprecedented pledge from an Israeli industrial concern.
		Environmentalists have pointed to exposure to Kishon River water as the likely source of the high prevalence of cancer in veterans of an elite navy commando unit that trained there.
	www.elaw.org /news/ebulletin/text.asp?id=293 (552 words)

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