The Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) released it's annual assessment  this week. In the assessment the IUED rated  Knesset members for their Environmental activities. 

MK Esterina Tartman (Israel Beytenu) received special recognition for creating the lobby to save the Dead Sea. She managed to centralize all aspects dealing with the sea under one minister and brought about the creation of a government company with a NIS 300 million budget to help save the sea.

Tartman thanked IUED for the honor but said that she hoped environmental legislation would become the norm and there would be no need in the future to note such efforts as extraordinary.