Knesset public committee amazed by an admission of the power company engineer

This post was written (translated) by a EMR activist in Israel (she asked to stay unnamed).

Knesset public committee amazed by an admission of the power company engineer 

A power company's engineer of hazards prevention unit, Dr. Ben Zion Cohen: "not all the populations are aware of the risk of radiation from high voltage powerlines, but why wake the bears from lying down?" Place: in a discussion with the Knesset public complaints committee with MP David Azulai, Ben Zion Cohen amazed the committee members. The subject of the meeting was the fight of residents to transfer high voltage power line in Bnei Brack, a fight that lasts for years.

Committee chairman: "the company cannot ignore its responsibility for risks"

Knesset Spokesman notice on the Knesset's website: 
Amazement among the members of the public complaints Knesset committee, on Wednesday, following the admission of an environment quality engineer in the power company. 

A year ago a resident of Bnei Brack, approached to the committee in order to get help, regarding high voltage powerline near his house. He funded a radiation check which revealed higher levels than the standard of the environment ministry. 
Committee chairman: it is impossible that a resident will be exposed to continuing risk because of an argument between the municipality and the power company about funding the transfer of high voltage powerline. 

David Azulai, the chairman, approached the mayor of Bnei Brack and to the power company executive in order that they find the way to transfer the powerline from the street. Azulai informed that he would approach the health ministry in order to check whether there exists policy on the subject of high voltage powerlines in populations centers. In the discussion it turned out that the cost to 
transfer the high voltage powerlines is between 400,000- 500,000 shekels. 

Knesset member Uri Makleb: dozens of families suffer from the radiation. These are people who pay taxes and it is impossible that the authorities risk their health. 

Knesset member Israel Ichler: The power company invests billions in infrastructures, they must transfer the powerlines by law. In the city of Manchester, UK, there was a case of parents who died following similar exposure to radiation and the local power company must pay money to the children for all their lives 

Manager of the environment quality unit of Bnei Brack's municipality, Moti Vilovski: The municipality gave twice a special area to transfer transformer in the street but the company avoided doing it.

Manager of the national marketing branch in the power company, Zvi Segev: according to 2002 law, the company is committed that all the network and the distribution in populated areas will be under the ground. Experts committee forced the company to give 8-10 billion shekels every year to bury the infrastructure in the ground in order to diminish the phenomenon of magnetic fields, in addition there was determined priorities order, in the head of the list are schools and kindergardens. 

Power company engineer in the unit of hazards prevention and environment license, Dr. Ben Zion Cohen: the company gave the env. ministry the list of installations in the country and radiation check for which the env. ministry is responsible for. Every citizen can file a request to transfer the line and the company checks the issue. The norm in the country enables several milligaus, which is true in the case of Reines stress in Bnei Brack. Not all the populations are aware of the risk of radiation, but why wake the bears of their lying down? already above 30 years there has been not proven an undoubted risk. Maybe yes maybe not. Whoever wants can enter into the website of the company and see if he is in the area or not.

Knesset spokesman press release:

"The power company builds on the lack of awareness and rejects transfer of high voltage power lines from populated areas"  (hebrew) 

http://www.knesset.gov.il/spokesman/heb/Result.asp?HodID=10251

Globes article (Hebrew)

http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?fbdid=1000749459

Radiation in the education ministry? work two hours less

This post was written (translated) by a EMR activist in Israel (she asked to stay unnamed).

Following miscarriages and cancer increase, the workers of the education ministry fear that the powerline near the building emits high levels. The solution of the ministry's executive: go home early. One of the workers in response: "it is a sad joke." 

Workers in the education ministry were informed that the working day of part of them would be shortened from now on in two hours. However the workers are not satisfied. The reason: it is not a prize, but an intermediate solution of the ministry's executive in order to deal with the worker's claim on radiation in the offices that endangers their health. During the last years, workers in the education ministry noticed an increase of cancer among the workers, and many cases of miscarriages among the women workers. They decided to hire a private company, that determined that the building is near a powerline that emits high levels of magnetic field, especially in the upper floors of the building. The education ministry checked also several times but the results were not received yet. The workers fear for their health, they approached lately to the executive of the ministry, Dalit Shtauber, and she promised to check the subject and how it's possible to make it easier for the workers. 
In an email that was send to the workers from the executive, they were told that the education ministry and the Civil Service Commission, decided about a temporary solution that will make the anxiety and the panic feeling easier, until the findings of an industrial doctor's radiation check will be accepted. It was decided to approve temporarily a shortened working day of 6 hours for 95 workers in the floor where high radiation level was found, was written in the notice to the workers. "I am glad that the effort to shorten the working day for the workers in the floors where high level of radiation was found, yielded fruit and I see it as an important achievement for the relief of the worried workers"

One of the workers told Ynet that "it's a sad joke, also 6 hours of exposure to radiation is dangerous to health and if the building is really dangerous then it's time they close the offices and transfer us to another place".

From the education ministry it was told that "Dalit Shtauber, the ministry's executive, received the decision to temporarily approve the working day to 6 hours for the workers from good will to make it easier on the panic and anxiety that the workers expressed to her. And this is until the reception of an industrial doctor. It would be clarified that this decision is not a recognition in the danger of the radiation or a decision that the workers are in an increased exposure to the radiation. A decision on this subject will be received only by a check of an industrial doctor, who is an expert on this subject.

Article in Hebrew

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4232276,00.html

The Israeli government is confused about wireless technologies.

People from around the world asked me in the past few days if 4G was banded in Israel.

No, it was not officially banded .

As far as I know there is an ongoing litigation about advanced cellphone use (when the low suit was issued, by the forum for sane cellphone use, it was about 3G video, Internet and data, but now it seems to be about 4G) in the Supreme Court ( http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3105745,00.html ) .

In addition the ministry of environmental protection and the ministry of health are calling for a public debate before further deployment of 4G, LTE and WIMAX technologies ( Hebrew post, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1912699 )

So for the time being, there is no commercial 4G network in Israel, yet.

One of the cellphone companies has announces few months ago that it started to deploy 4G network, but since then there was no news on this issue (http://norad4u.blogspot.com/2011/12/4g-cell-network-to-be-deployed-by.html).

The government in Israel is acting in two opposite directions regarding the wireless issue. From one side warning about the use of cell phone and other wireless devices where issued by the ministry of health and the ministry of environment protection, and on the other hand it seems that wireless technologies are being deployed and pushed to the public with the approval of the government, sometimes by the government and municipal governments .

For example, this is the case with WIFI in schools, where a comity (with representatives from ministry of health, the ministry of environment protection and the ministry of education) issued a report that 'call" for wired Internet in schools, and according to its' report mobile phone use was limited in schools ( (Hebrew posts, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2125366). But this report does not band WIFI, and It says that the IARC resolution is not "strong" and that it is not widely excepted. They go ahead saying that we need to act according to the "precautionary principle" without saying what it is. After this report was issues a different division of the ministry of education started the deployment and installation of WIFI networks in schools around the country (Hebrew posts, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2286852 , http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2203335 ) .

Another example of this is the warning that were issues a while ago on cellphone and wireless devices use, both by the ministry of Health and of environmental protection ( http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/cordless-phones-emit-as-much-radiation-as-cell-phones-1.303349 ). Later on that year, the ministry of Communication pushed for 2 additional 3G cellphone networks (Hebrew post, please use translator - ) and for WIFI in cities around Israel ( Hebrew post, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2225950 ) . In addition to that wireless water smart meters are being deployed in Israel as we speak, again very quietly… sh…sh…sh…the public is sleeping!

Some people here say that what the ministry of environment and health are doing is deliberately in order to show to the public that they are doing all they can about this issue, while still allowing the wide spread of wireless technologies.

On the Knesset front (the Israeli parliament) there are several MK that are trying contently working to create new lows regarding public awareness of the danger from wireless technologies and protection of the public from the non heat related health effect. Leading this group are MK Yulia Shamalov Berkovich and Dov Khenin who purposed a new low that will require health warning labels to be put on cellphones (http://norad4u.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-bill-that-will-require-health.html) . On the other hand MK Meir Shitrit is pushing for a low that require the installation of WIFI router in all public building (Hebrew post, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2289156&r=1 ).

I think the government is very confused. I think most of them never measured the RF levels from a wireless router, several laptops working in the same room, smart meters, cellphone antenna, cell phones, and any other RF or ELF sources. I think that none of them is an EHS, none of them suffered from RF or ELF EMR. I think that they know only a small part of the science proof for the damage caused by RF and ELF EMR, and even if they do know it, their interpretation is wrong. I think they are all very limited in their views, knowledge and actions.

But on the other hand I am very naïve; maybe all of this is just a very big spin!

So I give you :

The flag of the "Wireless State of Israel"

High Magnetic fields in Or-Akiva Israel, florescent tubes lighted under power lines

On a TV show in Israel Dr zamir shalita and Liran Raz were able to repeat the experiment that florescent tubes are lighted with out electricity, when being in a strong (above 15 mGouse) magnetic field under High voltage power lines in Or-Akiva, Israel. The residence in the street near the lines live in 35 to 80 mG magnetic fields and suffer for cancer, abortions, migrants, headaches and other side effects of ELF magnetic fields.

Please see the video below, from 00:50- 01:40 and

http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleId=828569&sid=126

extream low frequency EMR from standby electronics

Some electric and electronic appliances and devices emit ElectroMagnetic Radiation (EMR) and consume electricity even when on standby mode, even when not in use. The best way to reduce this emission and electricity consumption to 0 is to unplug the devices from the electricity power outlet. However this is not always easy to do and can sometime be a little bit dangerous. In this clip we will see how a multi socket power outlet with a power switch can solve this issue. We will see that all the devices emit EMR when connected to the power source and does not emit any EMR when the power switch is turned off.

ElectroMagntic radiation emitted by home electronics on standby mode

Some electric and electronic appliances and devices emit ElectroMagnetic Radiation (EMR) and consume electricity even when on standby mode, even when not in use. The best way to reduce this emission and electricity consumption to 0 is to unplug the devices from the electricity power outlet. However this is not always easy to do and can sometime be a little bit dangerous. In this clip we will see how a multi socket power outlet with a power switch can solve this issue. We will see that all the devices emit EMR when connected to the power source and does not emit any EMR when the power switch is turned off.