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Class Action (Tel Aviv) 11278-10-19 Yehoshua Klein v. Oil Refineries Ltd. - part 110

January 13, 2026
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 Adv. A.  Goren:                       Her name?

The Witness, Dr.  Julie G.: That the levels in Haifa are higher. 

 Interpreter:               She said this, What was one that you said?

 Adv. A.  Amorai:       That's what she said.  That's what she said.

[....]

Adv. A.  Goren:                   I don't think that's what she said.

The Honorable Judge D.  Chasdai: Check with her, check please, ask her to clarify.

[....]

The Witness, Dr.  Julie G.:  Oh being similar to levels in other

Interpreter:               excuse me that are similar in levelsI apologize.

The Witness, Dr.  Julie G:  that the levels in Haifa are similar to those in other places, and two, that these levels are generally lower than the regulatory limits they are intended to protect sensitive populations, such as populations of children, pregnant women, and the elderly

(In detail, pp. 2226-2228).

  1. The expert was asked and clarified in her cross-examination, in relation to her work-opinion, inter alia that:

:Q      How do you relate in your opinion to the emissions deviations of these factories? How do you relate to it?  You know what, Slash has reservations, expresses, fires, exceptions, that's exactly it...

[....]

:A      Again, what interests me is the air that people breathe.  So if these emissions have led to increases in the air that we breathe, which is reflected there, then that's Import This is reflected in data from stations, from the monitoring of the air.  Air Monitoring Data.

:Q    Just for the record, can you confirm to me that you haven't seen a monitoring station in Israel before? Didn't you ask to know the locations of the monitoring stations? Confirm me that you have no idea whether this or that monitoring station worked, and with all things related, second, I can't do that.  And when it comes to the monitoring stations, you relied completely, without checking, on what she wrote.

The Witness, Dr.  Julie G.: It is true that I have not seen a monitoring station, I do know where they are because it appeared in Dr. Libicki's report.  It's important to understand, I'm not an expert in air quality, Dr. Libiki is.  I use data to assess the risks, so I didn't need the.  I needed the data but I didn't need to personally see the stations (pages 2186-2188).

  1. As to her opinion and the use she made in Gedera of the monitoring data presented by Libiki and which appear in the latter's opinion, Dr. Goodman testified as follows:

... It is true that I have not seen a monitoring station, I do know where they are because it appeared in Dr. Libicki's report.  It's important to understand, I'm not an expert in air quality, Dr. Libiki isI use data to assess the risks, so I didn't need the.  I needed the data but I didn't need to personally see the stations...  (pp. 2187-2188).

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