While all the other local authorities are strongly opposed, in Haifa they welcome the disaster.
Airports are an environmental nuisance and most city dwellers believe that they should be kept away from city centers in order to minimize noise and pollution.
Therefore, when a government decision was made to establish an airport in the Jezreel Valley, the heads of the councils from the region started a persistent struggle to cancel the evil of the decree. The regional councils of Emek-Jezreel, Ramat Yishai, Tivon, and Megido filed objections, organized demonstrations, opened informational headquarters, and even went as far as the High Court of Justice.
"Not on our backs"
In another case, when the Committee for National Infrastructures decided on the establishment of the Hadera-Mizrah airport
As an alternative to the civil airport in Herzliya, which is expected to be closed, six heads of local authorities left
From the area (Hadera, Menasha, Emek Hafer, Elikhin, Baka al-Grabiya, Pardes Hana-Karkur) they set up a struggle headquarters against the establishment of an airport in Hadera and declared: "We will not allow the Israeli government to land the airport from Herzliya on our backs." Hadera Municipality and Menashe Regional Council also petitioned the High Court against the decision to build an airport.
And in Haifa...
In contrast to them, since Einat Kalish-Rotem's election as mayor of Haifa, she absurdly promotes the expansion of Haifa Airport as an international airport with flights to destinations in Europe. For this purpose, cooperation began with the head of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council, Eyal Betzer, who jumped at the opportunity to get rid of the disaster knocking on his door and move it to Haifa.
Unlike all the other heads of councils and cities, who go out of their way to keep away the dramatic hazard in the form of an airport, Klish invites this disaster to our doorstep.
Since everyone is trying to get rid of this hot potato and Klish accepts it with open arms, of course the government authorities are very happy to pass the hazard to those who are willing to accept it.
That's why Deputy Defense Minister Alon Shuster announced that he would work to move the field activity from Herzliya to Haifa and not
Hadera, against the background of strong opposition from the regional councils of Hadera and its neighbors.
Even worse, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced that he intends to promote a new plan to establish a field
A new airport in Haifa, as an alternative to the airport that was planned to be built in the Jezreel Valley, and this after its establishment
The area was met with a wave of resistance from the residents.
"I believe you will support"
Lieberman revealed the plan as part of a conversation with "Calcalist", at a conference of industrialists and entrepreneurs - Maalot
Tarshikha-Kfar Varedim. Lieberman added that he would involve the Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli in the process and said that "I believe she will support it."
A hazard is not a hazard. An international airport saves time for hundreds or thousands of people from Tirator to reach Israel, time and money. Therefore, all concerned should be alerted and heartache should be prevented.
An airport in Haifa will upgrade the city and connect it to the world. will create new jobs and promote the entire area. Even so, the industrial area is not a green lung. The damage is small compared to the benefit.
We want an airport in Haifa. I'm tired of traveling to Nabatim and the main problem now will be that for every trip abroad I will have to travel 3 hours to Nabatim (the flights from Nabatim will be expensive! Tickets are cheaper - only in Nabatim!).
A completely non-absurd cliché that promotes it. On the contrary, you will also remember another 50 years as the head of the legendary city that brought about a turning point in Haifa.
From Haifa to Ramat David 15 minutes on the Emek train. Like MTA to NTB. Cliché lives in the absurd. I sat like her in the same discussion where the senior experts detailed the aviation and safety reasons why there is no possibility of international cooperation in the Gulf, but she is not interested. Like a crying girl in a candy store who stomps her foot and wants exactly what is forbidden.
Prof. Micah Burt / Green Islands / and closing the Chinese port immediately and turning it into an airport. They are the basis for green tourism from Europe. And if computer engineers don't wake up and wise up.
The most beautiful city in the world will be left in the hands of vigilantes.
Delusional mayors. And world-class crooks.
See: Brynston Organic Village
An organic ecological village that has existed since 1978 with over a million tourists a year who land from Europe sick and return healthy.
See :
De Ilion Code
Cipher de Ilion.
Ms. Nagel is right! By the way, in recent years I have also sent you a number of critical articles against the mayor's policy regarding the airport in the Gulf, and the other Gulf carriers. My feeling that "I live here" is blocked from my articles.
In 2021, an airport will be built on the sea, in front of Haifa, on cubes made from plastic scraps.
And the same should be done with Ben Gurion Airport.
But, Haifa does not have a local government, probably since the days of Father Khushi.
And those who are guilty of this, are the residents of the city, in their wrong choices, over many years.
An airport in Haifa should not be an alternative to Ramat David but a field that will serve the residents of the area.
He is a huge bonus for the city of Haifa and the entire north. Israel's future airport is already in the bud. Mitzvah itself a long time ago.
With the money that will be saved in Nebatim, a high-speed rail infrastructure can be established throughout the country for the benefit of all the country's residents 24/7, instead of spending
The money for how many people fly once or twice a year abroad.. due to the construction of a field in another place.. I recommend studying the data and the cost differences between sprouts for any alternative that will be offered in the future.
It's a shame that the author really doesn't know the details. the airport. In the Jezreel Valley, the houses of the residents were planned. There may have been houses that had to be evacuated. In Haifa, the closest apartment building to the route is about two kilometers away. Checking the noise lines in Haifa shows that there is almost no noise at all since the takeoffs and most instructions will be to the sea. Building a field in Haifa will help clear some of the facilities in Zen and Haifa will be twice as prosperous. There are many cities sitting on the sea with a port and an airport. For example, Boston, Marseille, Nice and more, this combination works wonders for them. A field limited to narrow-body planes will greatly promote Haifa
Haifaim, since when do you say "yes" to worsening conditions???
Aircraft noise at all hours of the day, day and night?
Coal, polluting smoke and the smell of burning jet fuel overhead, from now on and forever
Traffic loads on central roads and loads on public parking lots and their conversion to paid parking lots
Depreciation of real estate assets
*** This is the meaning of establishing a large, international airport in Haifa!!!!!!
All the other mayors, who understood the implications of accepting this disaster that unfolded before them, shrieked, shouted and resisted to the point of submitting to the Supreme Court.
And only the beautiful and polite Haifa fell asleep on guard!
It's not too late - it's time to resist!!
Rina you are so right
Haifa is deteriorating at a rapid pace, is a home for wild pigs, is full of factories that pollute, and now we have another problem
The airport that will be noisy 24/7 every day and all day
Every city tries to remove this nuisance from its territory, while only in Haifa the mayor embraces the inclusion of the noisy field. Beyond that, this is unusual air pollution. Even so, statistically, residents of Haifa are affected by cancer due to air pollution, and now they are trying to add the unreasonable pollution from airplanes.
Or for the ears that hear woe to the dreamers, oh to the fools, well done Rina for bringing up the issue ahead of time, maybe something can still be saved.
Well done Rina
Excellent article
There is some confusion in the responses: an international airport is a first-class economic asset. The municipal field in Boston covers 30 percent of the city's budget. The field is not in the center of Haifa but in the industrial area, the Gulf port cost 10 billion and is completely unnecessary. The plundering of Mord Kishon Park is the responsibility of the Israel Ports Company and has nothing to do with the airport. If there is a field in Haifa, the upcoming shipping will make Haifa a home port for thousands of tourists
All the councils and municipalities are fighting and preventing the establishment of an airport in their area, and only Haifa is volunteering to bring this trouble to us.
Here is what would happen in a country that is not controlled by treasury officials who only budget for Tel Aviv, Modi'in and Jerusalem (because that is where they live):
- The government would have made a decision to immediately realize the definition of the airport in the north as a project of national importance already during Mofaz's days as transport minister.
- The government appointed an expert committee consisting of teams that dried the sea for the Gulf port to plan within a year an artificial island with runways towards the sea and a connection with an 8-lane highway next to the breakwater of the Gulf port and then into the sea
- The government would issue a tender upon completion of planning for the construction of an international airport and a connecting highway.
- Israel Railways was required to produce an extension from the check post to connect to the airport by train
- The drying of the island would begin in 2023 for 5 years of construction and the "Herzl" international airport would open during the country's 80th celebrations in 2028.
- Next to the highway to Sheda, the area of the Kiryat Haim tank farm would have been turned into a logistics center for the airport and on its beach a huge recreation area with a new marina and hotels that would serve the flight attendants and passengers at the airport
Wow, just awful!
The pollution and noise from the airport will destroy the little quality of life that is still left for the residents of Haifa and Kiryat.
Very important article!
Rina is right in every word
Incredible. Mainly because I thought Klish ran for the green mandate.
There is ecological and infectious damage here.
If she wants to turn Haifa into a city of Tirut there are other ways to do it before they pollute our environment and harm our quality of life
Northern Israel needs an airport. Ecological or not, every coastal and touristic city around the Mediterranean basin with a size of half a million inhabitants has an airport except for one city named Haifa, which the state in which it is located decided from the height of a colony in Jerusalem to turn it into the black sheep of the State of Israel, the garbage bin of the State of Israel, and a metal dumping ground The sea and infrastructures are devouring the area it diverts from Gush Dan and the Sharon area.
Instead of giving the region a chance to become a strong metropolis with the help of which the entire northern region will be leveraged, as the integration of Gush Dan leads to demand and the regeneration of cities in the entire outer core ring of Gush Dan, whether it is Rosh Ha'Ein or Netanya, then in Haifa the opposite is happening. The weakening of the metropolitan core produces ripples that weaken all the cities in the core ring and through them the weakening of all economic and tourism activity in all the districts of Haifa and the north which fades in front of the districts of Tel Aviv and the center.
Whether it's the lack of an international airport in the north
Whether it's fencing Haifa in fences, electrifying the railway without tunneling and destroying the development of the coastline along many kilometers
Whether it's taking over the Kishon areas for logistics, when in Tel Aviv the Yarkon is removed from every industrial plant and all fuels.
Whether it's the lack of budgets for high-level public buildings and a huge investment in culture in Jerusalem and Gush Dan at the expense of Haifa and the North.
Whether it's a lack of police enforcement despite a wave of lynchings followed by an increase in serious crime, shootings, extortion, robbery, assassinations.
All this in the bottom line says:
The State of Israel abandons the metropolis of Haifa and thus weakens the flip-flop effect on the entire northern region. In this action, it also damages indicators such as competitiveness and ease of doing business.
Error correction: Rina Nagel
Rona Hi. There must be an airport in Haifa. Have a nice evening and good night
Is it better to further take over the Israel Ports Company and turn the city into a fuel storage area? And this is in addition to what exists today.
It is better to store fuels than to burn them in the sky
It is better to store fuels than to burn them in the sky
Tell me what's going on with Haifa?? Haifa has become the cesspool of the country!!, factories that emit day and night thick, smelly and toxic smoke that pollutes Haifa and its surroundings. And now they also want to increase the environmental hazard by adding an airport that will cause air pollution, unbearable noise, traffic jams and congestion on traffic routes, and a lack of parking. Not to mention of course a decrease in the value of real estate. Crying for generations!
Residents of Haifa, we will regret this - if you don't wake up and say no!!
You are right. Every word is in stone
Haifa should announce the closing of the airport and its transformation into a logistics complex of the Gulf Port instead of the Gulf Port taking over the areas of the kishan for containers and silos 30 meters high, which will be erected on the airport grounds.
Closing the airport in Haifa will force the state to immediately plan an international airport in the north and this will serve the entire north, as well as the residents of Haifa. Where is Klish's mind???
On her first day in office, she had to close the airport and conduct negotiations with the Gulf Port for an exchange of space around the banks of the Kishon to set up logistics in the field.
3 million residents of the north need an international airport on our part that will dry up another section like the Gulf port and establish a port and runways for landing and taking off into the sea. If there is 150 billion shekels for the metro to Gush Dan, let them find another 5 billion shekels to dry an island for the airport in Haifa Bay. We are already tired of traveling to Israel. There are businessmen who say that the reason they will never settle in Haifa is that it is an hour and a half to Israel
Eyal.