Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: Okay, but I'll tell you why I'm interested in this, because it's possible that this or that factory emits additional substances that you're not aware of, that circulate in the air of Haifa and the Gulf. Did you check that, sir?
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: Anonymous.
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The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: No, that's why there is a state body called the Ministry of the Environment that both defines in the law what substances should be measured and measures themTherefore, I have no interest in dealing with other substances that I know well and that can cause other phenomena.
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Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: Great. And you also can't tell me how much emissions each of these respondents has. That's right, sir.?
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: Except for what the Ministry of the Environment describes.
Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: Okay.
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: He describes how many refugees, he describes how many exceptions, if there were any, he describes things and I am in an orderly country.
(pages 1826-1828)
- The expert also noted in his testimony, inter alia, that:
I think that today I am representing a lawsuit against the factories that I truly think is not true. In my professional opinion, I think that there is no connection between air pollution in the Gulf and morbidity. So much so that I'm not even sure that there is excess morbidity in the Gulf, OK? And I'm probably the person most qualified to talk about this issue as of today in the State of Israel, with all due respect.
And later on -
In my opinion, there is no excess morbidity, in my opinion, the exposures are exposures that do not know how to cause cancer in most cases, and this is my professional position. So the more we mix it up again and again and again and again and again, the fundamental questions are, is there an excess of morbidity or none? Is there an excess of exposure or not? And is there a connection between exposure and morbidity?
(pages 1835-1836)
- In connection with a report/survey that he had submitted in the past to the District Committee, in which he had also received material from BAZAN and monitoring data [Appendix 21 to Kantor's affidavit on behalf of the Respondents], the expert testified and replied as follows:
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: This report, in my opinion, I was not at Bazan in the context of all these claims. I met the people of Bazan at my house. I think maybe once or twice at first, maybe once before the report started to move forward. And I received data from them from a professional company that they provided me and also in my opinion and for everyone, and at any time, he says All the opinions there were based on data, the Goldschmidt Farm. Many, many, many were large binders of data, and I relied on them in the exposure element, OK? Again, we need to differentiate between the question of exposure and the question of the relationship between exposure and outcome (page 1831)