ICL Group, Tel Aviv, reported the Be’er Sheva District Court on April 21 dismissed “with prejudice” the application for certification of a class action that was filed on March 18 against the company’s Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd. and Periclase Dead Sea Ltd subsidiaries.
The class action was requesting compensation of about NIS1.4 billion (approximately $435 million) regarding environmental hazards that were caused due to leakage of wastewater to the groundwater aquifer in the vicinity of the Bokek stream, which began in the 1970s, while ICL was government owned, and ended by the year 2000, ICL said in an April 25 statement.
The court’s decision to dismiss “with prejudice” the application means that the plaintiff cannot refile the same claim again in that court.