The proposal, which would prohibit state agencies from using projections of advancing sea levels in drafting coastal development rules, was hailed as a "common sense" approach that would shield against negative economic impacts on the state's coastal areas.
His efforts to bring Gaza, a coastal enclave ruled by the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas, under his baton have so far gone nowhere.
In his written apology, Mr Netanyahu said he would ease restrictions on supplies to that Palestinian coastal strip ruled by Hamas.
Hamas said it remembers Turkey's "wise leadership in supporting the Palestinian people and their cause" and working to lift the blockade on Gaza, the coastal territory ruled by the group.
PAGE A6 NEW MUSEUM TO OPEN IN GAZA The first museum of archaeology in Gaza will open this summer, showing how this increasingly poor and isolated coastal strip, ruled by the Islamists of Hamas, was once a thriving multicultural crossroad.
The widespread use of social media for the first time in Palestinian elections has seen both sides locked in a conflict of narratives over conditions in the coastal strip ruled by Hamas since 2007, which has lived through three devastating conflicts with Israel in the last eight years.
The company had hoped to almost double the the size of its San Diego whale tank complex – which is home to 11 orcas – to 9.6m gallons, but the $100m plan backfired last month when the California coastal commission ruled that the company could only expand the tanks if it put an end to breeding orcas at the park.
But when Jawdat N. Khoudary opens the first museum of archaeology in Gaza this summer it will be a form of Palestinian patriotism, showing how this increasingly poor and isolated coastal strip ruled by the Islamists of Hamas was once a thriving multicultural crossroad.
An Egyptian official told Reuters the talks would discuss Palestinian demands for the opening of more Israeli crossings into Gaza - a move that would help end six years of blockade of the coastal enclave ruled by the Islamist Hamas.
The group ranked companies on how green they keep their ships, focusing on their compliance with coastal clean water rules, how much they run their engines to provide electricity while in port, and how extensively they treat their sewage.
