(Andrew Friedman/TPS) Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav has demanded the government act to swiftly remove the ammonia storage facilities in Haifa Bay, following publication of a report by Prof. Ehud Keinan of the Technion, the former dean of the university’s chemical engineering faculty.

The report says the location of the ammonia storage facilities poses a major catastrophic danger to the entire Haifa metropolitan area. The danger is not only from the storage facilities, which are not underground, and therefore highly vulnerable to a missile attack, but from the ships that bring the ammonia to the port.