Closures

A new study carried out by researchers from the Hebrew University on two districts with the highest air pollution in Israel, Gush Dan and Haifa, while taking meteorological conditions into account, reveals for the first time the effect of a significant reduction in economic activity on the quality of the environment. The research findings revealed that the maximum relative contribution of the closure to the total change in pollutants was up to 26%, and together with the meteorological conditions up to 47%