Idit Silman

Cabinet ministers, Gantz denounce booing of Netanyahu's name during Witkoff's Hostage Square speech

Likud ministers and senior opposition figure Benny Gantz denounced protesters who booed Prime Minister Netanyahu during US envoy Steve Witkoff’s speech at Hostage Square.

Activists gather at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, October 11, 2025.
 View of the pitot spread out near the home of Likud MK Idit Silman. April 14, 2025.

Protesters spread pita in front of Likud MK's home in call for hostages' return

 Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman is seen at the handover ceremony replacing outgoing minister Tamar Zandberg, in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023.

Israeli arrested for slapping Minister Idit Silman in Rehovot

 Idit Silman, head of the Health Committee leads a Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2021.

Idit Silman to become third Israeli minister to visit Saudi Arabia - report


Israeli government pushes for net zero by 2050 with climate bill

The urgency of the climate bill increased after a recent report showed that Israel had recorded its highest greenhouse gas emissions levels since 2012.

Greenhouse gases

Illegal Palestinian waste fire forces settler shop owners to stay indoors

"We woke up one morning" to "a big black thick pillar of smoke, no one can breathe."

 Fire at illegal trash dumping ground caused dangerous air pollution level in Binyamin region of the West Bank, on August 7, 2023.

Israel, Morocco to collaborate on climate issues

The agreement will include a framework for cooperation between research institutes, entrepreneurs, and public and private bodies in the field of the environment.

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman with her counterpart, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development of Morocco, Leila Benali, in Rabat, Morocco.

What will Israel spend on the environment this year?

The ministry said it feels successful in that its total compensation stayed the same or even went up despite budget cuts to ministries across the board.

 The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav which suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby evaporation ponds of the chemicals and the IEC power plant. December 28, 2017.

National parks open free of charge for Gaza border residents

People living within 40 km of the Gaza Strip will be granted free entry into the country's national parks and gardens, including the night parking lots, starting from Thursday.

 Kochav Hayarden National Park

Lighting Lag Ba'omer fires in open areas to be banned throughout Israel

The Health and Environmental Protection ministries joined the call to avoid lighting fires this Lag Ba'omer and gave out guidelines for a safe holiday.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys dance around a bonfire as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in the city of Ashdod, Israel May 13, 2017

Knesset fails to advance Climate Bill due to internal opposition

An affirmative vote by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation is required to advance the bill to the Knesset and make it law.

 Interrelated crises with reciprocal feedback: Pollution, Climate change and Activity that Impairs Biodiversity

Hundreds protest judicial reform outside ministers' homes

On Silman's street, people who opposed the protest sprayed the demonstrators with pepper spray.

 Israelis block the Ayalon highway and clash with Police in Tel Aviv during a protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul on March 23, 2023.

Israel is not prepared for climate change, Silman says following UN report

The IPCC report indicated that the world is on the brink of a climate change disaster.

 Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman is seen at the handover ceremony replacing outgoing minister Tamar Zandberg, in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023.

MKs in disguise: Israeli lawmakers dress up for Purim

Several Israeli MKs and ministers took the time to make costumes that either reflected Purim merriment or contained political meanings.

 Israeli National Missions Minister Orit Struck is seen in Hebron dressed as Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut for the holiday of Purim, on March 7, 2023.

Ministers approve controversial 'Hametz Law' for preliminary reading in Knesset

The "Hametz Law" makes it illegal for hospitals to enter or hold hametz (leavened bread) during Passover.

A MAN wraps fresh matza during Passover in Ashdod in 2016