The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Yes.
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: In other words, the decision was actually that we had to withdraw from the announcement in which it was written that on the basis of Rotenberg, the assessment is that the morbidity in Haifa is the result of exposure to air pollution, right?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Anonymous
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: Isn't it?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Nope.
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: Isn't it?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Nope.
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: What is the meaning of...
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Continuing to check means that for the purpose of the matter the Ministry of Health is obligated to do so, and another examination was also done by Professor Raanan Raz, who was working at the Ministry of Health at the time and others, together with the National Cancer Registrar to continue to really examine this issue, and note that we are correcting, because here I really said earlier that the issue may not have been sufficiently clarified. We actually said in this study, or I based it on the study, what this study found is that children who lived in Haifa, that is, the follow-up group that started as children in Haifa up to the age of 14, develop their cancer afterwards. I mean, they're at risk, it's not that the children who are at risk right now are at risk, and that's actually the real interpretation of the data, and it does appear here. As for the research data of the Hadassah researchers who followed the population for 10 years in all age groups, including children between the ages of 0 and 14, that is, they followed children for 10 years because this is their study, they found an excess of morbidity. In other words, the morbidity is not in children, it is in people who were exposed as children to air pollution in Haifa.
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: But it was also said here.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Therefore, it is not said anywhere that... It doesn't appear that this study is not valid, or that this study is not true, as if you said it and I ...