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Israeli environmentalists applauded Thursday after a court dealt a blow to a controversial oil transport deal with the United Arab Emirates, agreed after the two countries normalised relations last year. The deal would have seen Gulf oil brought to Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat by tanker, then moved overland by pipeline to its Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, for onwards shipment to Europe. Environmental advocacy groups filed a petition in May to block implementation of the deal, citing risks to the northern Red Sea corals off Eilat. The three organisations – Adam Teva Vadim, the Society for P…