Within about two months, a team established at the initiative of Transport Minister Rav Michaeli should decide whether the airport will be built in the north of the country, that is, in the Haifa area.
Airport with a runway of 2400 m
The team appointed by Minister Michaeli is supposed to examine the possibilities for expanding international air traffic capacity - to and from Israel.
Establishing an international airport in Haifa is a well-known dream of the mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem, and Nachshon Tzuk fills her place. The two fought for its realization from the very beginning. In about two months it will be decided whether this dream will come true.
In one of the interviews given by Tzuk Lahi Fe on the subject, he said: "Our desire is to extend the Haifa airport runway from 1600 to 2,400 m, so that there will be a runway that will allow the landing of passenger planes used for international commercial flights, something that will turn the Haifa airport into a field International aviation. As everyone knows, we are interested in an airport in Haifa with a runway of 2400 m."
At the Gulf Regional Conference held this year in Haifa, Transport Minister Michaeli said that she does not rule out the establishment of a complementary international airport in Haifa. Michaeli also emphasized that in Israel it is necessary and important to establish complementary airports, one in the north and one in the south, and for this purpose the team was established that examines alternatives for expanding the capacity for international air traffic, which, as mentioned, will decide on the issue of the airport in Haifa. In an inspection with the Ministry of Transportation, it was stated that an answer on the matter will be received in the next two months.
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A less offensive alternative
It is important to note that a team of experts, including engineer Dov Rosen and risk management expert Yaron Hanan, is working with the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Defense and the heads of local authorities, with the aim of promoting a new alternative, which has not yet been tested, for a supplementary airport in the north. According to them, this alternative will be the least offensive in terms of noise and environmental damage, and will meet all the aviation and professional requirements set by the government, this compared to other alternatives that are published in the media from time to time, without any necessary connection to their feasibility. The team of experts will present the topic in the near future, after completing all the necessary tests. At this stage and to prevent the failure of the alternative by interested parties, the team refrained from publishing more details.
The Ministry of Transportation stated:
"As part of the government's decision, a team was established at the initiative of the Minister of Transportation and Road Safety, MK Merav Michaeli, which examines alternatives for expanding capacity for international air traffic to and from Israel. As part of the decision, the team was assigned 9 months to complete the inspection and the team intends to meet the schedule and present its conclusions in about two months.
The team headed by the Deputy Director General, Elam Sagi, examines and uses the professional tests that have been carried out in recent years, summons experts and examines additional alternatives for a complementary airport to Israel with the intention of creating a significant aviation infrastructure in Israel for the coming decades."
Mayor of Kiryat Yam, David Ibn Tzur:
Previous committees checked and found that the location for the airport in Haifa is not ideal, to say the least, for a variety of reasons. Better locations have been found, which allow for longer flight paths and are less disruptive to the daily routine of the residents and the environment.
Mayor of Kiryat Bialik, Eli Dukorski:
The municipality of Kiryat Bialik strongly opposes the opening of an international airport in the Haifa Bay, which will have devastating consequences on the quality of life of the residents of the area. The nuisance of the noise from the jet engines will disturb the residents of Kiryat to the same extent that it is a problem for the residents of the settlements near Ben Gurion Airport today.
Also, the establishment of an international airport will impose height restrictions that will jeopardize the development and urban renewal plans in the Kiryat cities.
Dukorsky, it was also reported, supports the plan that proposes to establish an international airport near Ramat David, which according to experts is the right plan, since there is already aircraft traffic in the area, and it is located in the heart of the northern region, so that it will contribute to the economic strengthening of the entire region without harming the quality of life The residents and the environment in Haifa Bay.
Mayor of Nesher, Roy Levy:
This is a plan that will affect all the authorities in the metropolis, as such, my assessment is that the plan will be presented to all the heads of the authorities who will be required to make a joint decision. When this happens, I will be able to weigh the advantages for the city's residents against the possible disadvantages - pollution, noise and traffic congestion, then we will form a firm opinion on the matter.
Lucky that I have enough money to move from Kiryat in case they extend the route.
So right now it is permanently closed, there is no way to get out of the north outside Israel?
Unfortunately Israel is a third world country with high tech. This is the description of the way of management and decision-making in the country.
I have lost hope in this country. If it is not possible to promote a hospital in Kiryat for a quarter of a million residents in a metropolis of a million people,
or an airport for millions of passengers, so there is really no point in having illusions that Haifa can be developed and the polluters thrown away and the city promoted.
Haifa is the national garbage can, that's how it was decided in Jerusalem. What the residents of this city who want a progressive developing city "on the map" can do is to leave for other cities where there is normal development for the residents of public transportation, airports, bike paths, school buildings, neighborhoods without unreasonable overcrowding. Haifa is finished. dead A correct diagnosis cliché. The officials in Jerusalem and the disgraceful management of the Labor Party's business have robbed Haifa of its future for hundreds of years to come as a backward city in all types of urban development.
Instead of bringing low and expensive cranes to the port, bring high and cheap cranes. This way there will be an international attraction for the airport in Haifa - planes will land under the cranes.
All the mayors in the Galilee demand a second large international field in the north.
We cannot allow 40 thousand residents of the valley councils to destroy the economy of 3 million residents of the north.
Why did you wake up only now?
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For decades we have been told that it is impossible to build infrastructure islands and sea drying is too expensive. Here comes the Gulf port for which they drained a huge area, the size and length of airport docks, and it was proven that everything is applicable, possible, economical, and doesn't even take too much time.
If you want no fairy tale. An international airport can be established, which will add 10,000 direct and indirect jobs. He will boost the hotels in Haifa. It will be an incentive for the high-tech industry to locate in Haifa, close to an accessible and central field within a short driving distance.
A medium-sized international airport with 5 million passengers per year will contribute billions of shekels to the urban economy and the economy of the north in tourism, transportation of goods and aviation services. Only from the indirect savings for the economy in fuel, reducing congestion on Israel's long roads and overcrowding in trains to and from Nabvi, makes the project profitable for the economy.
As we learned from Singapore, airport planning can turn it into a tourist attraction in itself. In the area of the existing field, it is possible to plan an airport city - not an isolated terminal, but the advantage of its location is tremendous: in the heart of the city and near the transportation hub of the Gulf Center, with the distance between them only one and a half kilometers. In the area of the technical school that is being vacated, it is possible to create a strip of airport hotels and offices, as an extension of the area outside the Gulf. In the area of the Gulf Center, it is possible to build a huge hangar for large performances up to 20 people, which will allow artists and equipment to be flown directly to and from the performance and accessibility by trains and buses from all over the country to and from the performance, which will allow cultural events to be held on an international scale. The evacuation of the refineries will add tens of thousands more residents who will be able to enjoy accessibility of only a 10-15 minute drive from the airport.
A million residents will enjoy accessibility up to a 20-minute drive to the international field in Haifa Bay when it opens in a few years. Several thousand workers will come to work in the field, at the terminal and thousands more workers in logistics, aviation services, hotels and entertainment that will open around the terminal.
The IATA code of Haifa International Airport, HFA, will become a symbol of Haifa's renewed economic prosperity, and the restoration of its importance as a rail, sea - and now also air crossroads. Instead of polluting chimneys and torches, a new aviation tower will be erected, which will be lit up at night and will be the new symbol of Haifa Bay .
If we want, it is not a fairy tale.
Be in favor of an airport in Haifa and fly. that one good thing came out of her.
I'm also thinking of an island in the sea, which will serve Haifa and the northern ones instead of traveling to Netbag.
Then let a mayor come who also knew how to accommodate the tourists who came down to Haifa. Because Haifa is dead.
The obvious solution for everyone is to establish an aviation error next to the Gulf port in dry land. A medium-large international airport for 10 million passengers. Logistics and hotel-aviation in the area of the fuel tank farm XNUMX with terminals in the area of the existing field. Connection by shuttle bus and conveyor to the docks about a kilometer and a half into the sea. The rail-seaport-airport connection will be a huge growth engine for the entire north.
Before they return the internal flights to Eilat.
You climb a ladder step by step and don't jump over your head.
The closest alternative was Sde Dov, and it also no longer exists.
So please, consider the residents of the north and bring back at least domestic flights.
It is not possible that you have to travel to Israel for two hours by train to fly to Eilat, it is absurd
As long as Haifa airport is not expanded, there will be no favors for Eilat or nearby destinations. There are no planes left with the Israeli airlines that are capable of better than the short salon of Haifa.
So all this foot-dragging by the various governments has completely destroyed aviation in the north, when they only cry about the congestion in the airport.
I don't understand the enthusiasm for developing an airport in an area that sits on an explosive industrial concentration like the Haifa Bay. Are the dangers and pollution here not enough for you to look for a plane that will miss a runway and land in refineries or a petrochemical plant. Enough with these delusional ideas, look elsewhere. In short, no Interested. Thanks
And what is your enthusiasm Aaron to leave an explosive industrial concentration here??
And what is the connection between landing and taking off from docks in the sea, and Haifa Bay??
After all, there is a government decision to kick the refineries out of Haifa Bay.
Enough is enough with your delusional reactions against necessary and good economic development in Haifa.
Sounds very suspicious.
It is important for Haifa to have an international airport.
Landing from the direction of the sea and taking off towards the sea or vice versa, will not cause any suffering to the residents of the area, the Kiryat and the area will benefit a lot from an airport close to home. It won't be Ben Gurion, much less.
Let's hope they don't make the same mistake they did with the power plants.
It's just not clear why in the meantime flights are not being promoted to nearby destinations, Larnaca, Amman, Sharm and from there connections to the whole world.
I don't understand this either. As of March 2020, Israir stopped its operations for domestic and international flights from Haifa airport. They don't think about the residents of the north. It's clear that they won't make the field international, so why not go back to the way it was?
Haifa's runway is too short for the planes available at the airlines. Before 2020, there were flights by Israir and Tus with small planes, but since then these planes have been decommissioned due to lack of viability and age. So if it is decided once again not to expand the field, there will be no flights at all, not even domestic flights.
An alternative airport and docks for passenger ships are the winning link that will provide thousands of jobs to all populations around Haifa, instead of opposing, we should unite successfully
It's funny to hear about cities much smaller than Haifa metropolis, which have an international field with millions of tourists.
And with us it is a field that will serve 3 million inhabitants from Hadera to the north, not just one small city.
Just a crazy situation. The state loses billions of shekels in the loss of working hours to transport goods from the north to Israel, traffic accidents, wear and tear of vehicles and fuel, traffic jams and what not. And continues to insist on not building another international airport because of a militant committee of Israel workers who functioned for Likud and Labor and destroy the future of the north and all A chance for competition and to stop the traffic jams and the nightmare of going back and forth to Israel.
Every tourism survey has shown that it is possible to add 2 million foreign tourists if a field is opened in the north of the country (pilgrimages to the Sea of Galilee, etc.). In addition to millions
Residents of the north who choose to fly through it instead of Bulgaria will surely go to short destinations such as Greece, Bulgaria, Rhodes, Cyprus, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Egypt, etc. A potential for 5 million users already in its first year, which will already make it a medium rather than a small field.
Where is this country, where is this government, where is the economic leadership here. In the United Arab Emirates, there was a small field from Benghazi, today there are 5 huge international fields. We are stuck with the expansions of Benghazi and another Ramon that stands desolate because it is not connected to Eilat.
Now they want to build a desolate field two fifteen minutes from Beer Sheva that will again remain empty and they will ask why.
Is there really no limit to stupidity in Israeli governments?? An airport was declared an essential national project in Haifa by Transport Minister Mofaz 15 years ago. We wasted 15 years of "location discussions". The location must have tracks towards the sea and therefore must have a bay protected from waves. This is in Haifa Bay. Second, you need a shallow place where you can dry sea. We saw in the Gulf port and the Navy's breakwater how quickly a very large area of sea can be dried up. This is exactly how you can dry land for runways.
What are the discussions about and what is the delay? Will we wait another 15 years? ? ? Why don't all the heads of the authorities in the north embark on an immediate and urgent struggle to establish an airport in Haifa. There is a limit to how much you can avoid the decision and damage the economy of the entire north. Are seaports important? Airports are also important. Go ahead and build an international airport in Haifa Bay.
Einat Kalish succeeds in harming the residents of Haifa in the present and is now planning harm in the future as well.
Too bad there is no one to stop her.
Let's start before a field to kick the failed mayor from here maybe through the existing field
The failed mayor should decide about the city's residents who do not trust her.
Airport, must be outside and far from the city
We want to live and not suffer from noise pollution
What noise and what shoes? The planes will land and take off over the sea. There are no residents there. Only benefit will accrue to the metropolis of Haifa from the extension of the route for international flights to all of Europe.
Because the residents of Kiryat Haim are not considered in your eyes
Where is the mayor of Kiryat Ata. The disturbance to the residents of the city is not important to him?
There are rigs the size of a football field. The claim "there is nowhere to land and it is impossible to land in Haifa Bay" is false. It is possible to connect three rigs and establish a landing strip in Haifa Bay, and connect them with a bridge to the existing Haifa terminal + field area.
All that is required from the state is an immediate decision on the establishment of runways for the airport in the waters of Haifa Bay.
The purchase of two large giant rigs and placing them behind the Gulf port are connected to runways and they are the construction of a bridge.
The cost will be like drying up the sea of the Gulf port and within three years an international airport will be operating with safe landing and take off from the sea without any nuisance to the city.
The length of a soccer field is 100 m, while here rigs of 1000 m are required. Therefore doubt whether applicable.
Really, that's all we're missing... the noise of the training flights from Bihas to the flight isn't enough... we fly on Saturdays too, and it bothers us