Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: You haven't heard.
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: But this is an argument you hear over the years when you live in HaifaYou hear it about once a day. Now you'll understand again.
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The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: It's because they are hysterical with the public, they are misleading it unequivocally. The public in Haifa, who may be causing such lawsuits to be filed. I say Dugri, as a man of problems (Tz"l, "health" – D.H.) The public is causing more damage when I am in Haifa than not doing it. In other words, They think they are doing a good thing and they are doing it in good faith, I am convinced.
Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: Are you talking about us?
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: Nope. I'm talking about the plaintiffs. I say they do it in good faith, But they don't understand that they got in, got caught up in the subject, got it scientifically wrong, and they're sure they're going to die tomorrow, and it's not her..
Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: Are they sure they're going to die tomorrow, aren't she?
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: True.
(pp. 1872-1873).
- Lin testified that he did not understand monitoring (see his testimony at pp. 841-842). Dr. Libiki clarified in her testimony that "...I didn't actually learn air monitoring, but I did learn the techniques that [z"l: "apricots" – d.h.) use to perform this monitoring...I don't think there is such a degree that you can study, except maybe in technological colleges...But the techniques I learned are applied to air monitoring...And I have been working in this field most of the 35 years I have been at Ramble" (and in detail in relation to her professional experience and expertise - pages 1580-1582).
- In this context, it should be emphasized that the applicants did not claim in the application for approval that there are a small number of monitoring stations in the Haifa Bay area or that those that exist have consistently failed to function properly. Such an argument in the summaries is tantamount to a forbidden change of façade.
- Thus, for example, it was argued by the Applicants in their summaries that "...Shlita was asked about how many air monitoring stations there are in the Haifa area and Tashand his daughter: 'There is too little, much less than the standard.' Monitoring is extremely poor. What is poor and little monitoring? (p. 247, paras. 4-9)" (ibid., chapter 4(2), p. 34).
- The above quote constitutes a partial and misleading presentation of Shlita's testimony in relation to the monitoring stations. The expert was asked about this issue and answered as follows:
Adv. Mr. Amos Goren: Can you tell me, Do you know how many air monitoring stations, air pollutant monitoring stations there are in the Haifa area?