As part of Israel's SEIS national work plan and with the support of the ENI SEIS II South Support Mechanism, Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection organised a national workshop on marine litter in Rmat Efal, December 18 2018.

The workshop brought together the following stakeholders:

• The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Israel, Marine and Waste Divisions, The Office of the Chief  Scientist and relevant agencies involved in designing the marine litter monitoring programme for Israel, as well as in the design and implementation of marine litter measures to be included in the marine litter action plan;
• Representatives of local authorities in charge of maintaining the beaches, managing waste, designing or implementing municipal waste management plan;
• NGOs carrying out marine litter surveys or interested in performing marine litter monitoring;
• Research institutes and academia involved with marine litter monitoring;
• Representatives of  marine litter monitoring related projects.

 More information in Israeli is available here