It is possible to establish a significant international airport in Haifa, which supports flights to all of Europe and even across the ocean. Despite this, as of today, the Ministry of Transport is promoting an airport for small civilian planes, for relatively short flights (to Greece).
A procedure was recently completed "Public Mistakes" - in the planning process led by the Ministry of Transportation to expand the field for general civil aviation (for small and medium-sized aircraft). According to the planning of the Ministry of Transport, the addition of certain buildings and surfaces in the vicinity of the existing field will allow the transfer of the light planes from Herzliya, and light planes of the Air Force, to the airport in Haifa. After the completion of the program and the passage of the planes, the noise hazard from the holiday planes over the Kiryat will intensify. The range of flights - up to Cyprus and Greece only - will not change significantly.
All of this could have been prevented, if Haifa and Kiryat had together promoted a significant international airport, allowing flights to all of Europe and even across the ocean.
A number of barriers and suggestions for a solution
Regarding the possibility of establishing a significant international airport (with approximately 3,200 m runways), The Ministry of Transportation claimed that the Carmel Ridge does not allow the landing of planes From the southeast (due to the proximity to Mount Carmel in the area between Yegor and Isfia).
However, the direction of the route can be changed so that landings from the southeast will be possible without conflict with the Carmel.
The Ministry of Transportation previously also presented the giant cranes of the Gulf Port as a barrier, but pushing the route slightly north of the seaport also solves this matter.
In addition, The Ministry of Transportation stated that the industry in the Gulf and the chimneys of the refineries do not allow landings from the southeast, but in the meantime it was decided to evacuate Bezan and the polluting industry in general.
Finally Residents of Kiryat expressed fear of the noise that large planes would bring with them. The heads of the authorities in Kiryat have adopted the thesis that large planes will create a noise hazard, even though no professional opinion has ever been presented supporting the fear of increased noise. In fact the opposite is true.
A professional opinion was presented proving that an airport for large planes will reduce the noise that exists today. Rather, a long route into the sea will result in a complete solution to the noise problem.
Examining the noise seal from large planes shows that there will be no danger to the air (that is, less than 50 decibels), and it is also possible to set a flight curfew, as is customary in other cities in the world (for example, in Vancouver, Canada, the northern runway is closed between 22:00 p.m. and -07:00 in the morning, as well as in Sydney, Australia, there is a flight curfew between 23:00 and 06:30). Regarding the fear of air pollution, it is worth mentioning that modern airplanes are much more efficient and produce air pollution that meets the strictest European standards, so this is not a problem either.
The last remaining claim - a really broken one - is the claim that planes coming from the east will be in conflict with the airspace of the military airport in Ramat David, when planes are required to make an instrument landing that requires a slow descent over about 12 km. In fact, today's technology allows access for landing using instruments, when the plane makes a certain turn, until final alignment towards the runway axis about 7 km from the beginning of the runway (see thick red line in the sketch)
If everything is so simple, then where is the barrier?
Well, Again this is a political block, and the solution must also be political. The municipality of Haifa failed to entice the mayors of the Kiryats to support a significant international airport.
uncreated The mechanism that gives the heads of the authorities in Kiryat a central part of the receipts, they may favor the promotion of high-rise residential construction plans. It is understood that high-rise construction in the vicinity of the field will block the vision of a significant airport in Haifa.
It is to be regretted that the decision makers in Haifa and Kiryat do not work together and exert joint pressure on the Ministry of Transportation, in favor of promoting a significant international airport. National Airport 2 in Haifa generated hundreds of millions of shekels in rewards and property taxes, every year, from the airlines and related businesses, not to mention indirect benefits.
Haifa Mayor's vision and initiative
It is fitting that the mayor of Haifa - the current or the next - should demonstrate vision and initiative.
It is necessary to unite the mayors of the Kiryat and the North in favor of the airport vision. True, it is possible that Haifa will be forced to remain with only a small part of the expected direct receipts from the field (property taxes and royalties), with the bulk of the compensation going to the surrounding cities, expropriations, and compensation to the residents as required. However, the city of Haifa is the first to benefit from enormous indirect benefits from the establishment of a significant international airport on its territory.
If we take the Technion as an example - without a doubt the icing on the cake of Haifa and the North in general, well, what does an international airport mean for the positioning of the Technion? This means more international students and more international lecturers, and correspondingly an increase in the ranking in the important Shanghai University Index.
Likewise, large international companies may prefer the Haifa Bay over Kiryat Gat, for example (remember Intel that chose Kiryat Gat?), when again, the universities in Haifa and the quality workforce in the entire north are an asset to any serious international company.
On the other hand, when the Ministry of Transportation's plan for a small field is completed, the existing noise hazard will only intensify. The residents of the Kiryats will of course be the first victims of such a field. And the residents of the Kiryats, as well as the residents of Haifa and the entire north, will miss a fantastic opportunity to establish a significant airport that will benefit all residents in the north, and may even lead to the migration of residents to the north.
Therefore, the right way to move forward - as far as Haifa and the Kiryats are concerned - is the joint transportation of an airport that serves only large planes, with flights to all of Europe and even transatlantic flights (with runways of about 3,200 m).
In line with this vision, it is only requested to support high-speed trains (250 km/h) from the center of the Gulf to Tel Aviv, which make Tel Aviv accessible during a 20-minute drive to Haifa Bay. These two national infrastructures - an airport and high-speed trains to the center of the Gulf - are the most available basis for the development of Haifa and the entire north.
In this context, we have repeatedly presented the vision of high-speed trains to the center of the country, without harming the coastal environment in Haifa (and Atlit), and linking the important urban centers in Haifa to the center of the country -
Election time for our development. It is appropriate to choose only those candidates who know how to present and defend a Mishna Sedura on these critical issues for Haifa and the entire north.
The author, Adv. Dvir Langer, is a consultant to the Western Galilee cluster of authorities and heads of authorities in the north of the country. The said words represent his personal position only.
Hi, my name is Victoria Kalimankov, I'm 17 years old, I want to work at the airport in Haifa, I'd love to get a job during the holidays, thank you very much
"It was decided to evacuate Bezan and the polluting industry in general"... until the decision is implemented if at all... in the meantime the owners have changed hands and the businesses are alive and kicking!
The economic damages from the lack of an international airport in the north are so enormous that the investment in establishing it, even if it is 10 billion NIS, will pay for itself in only 5 years. Yes - the economic damage from not establishing an airport in the north is NIS 2 billion in loss of GDP in the north, every year.
This huge amount - consists of several sectors that are affected. The first is, of course, retarding the development of logistics branches of air transportation. Damage to tourism development. Harm to the loss of working hours from traffic jams to get to and from the National Bank of Israel on the three longitudinal roads and the railroad, all of which suffer from overcrowding and wear and tear on vehicles and trucks from Haifa and the north districts to and from the National Bank of Israel. Loss of about 5,000 direct jobs and another 5,000 jobs the industries support in the north. And the loss of the possibility to compete for the location of corporate managements due to the condition of being up to 30 minutes from an airport, when some managements moved to Gush Dan and Jerusalem from the north because of such a requirement.
But wait because the enormous damage of 2 billion NIS per year loss to the northern economy is only half of the total damages.
Today, the government is well aware of the damage that is also expected to be caused by overloading: the air corridor of the airport is narrow and narrow and will be blocked. As a result, in one year - 2024, they will not be able to add new airline lines, flights will become more expensive due to the cancellation of lines that are overloaded in the field, the congestion is already affecting the rating of the airport among the major airports, the requirements of the visa agreements with the USA will collapse the airport until So that we will consider collecting a use tax of tens of shekels from each passenger and increase the taxes of airlines.
All of this would have been avoided if there had been an international airport for 10 million passengers in the north, and it too, which does not exist at all yet, would have reached the limit of capacity according to an estimate within 10 years of its opening and it would have been necessary to expand it. So think what will happen to Israel when the Minister of Finance says that the establishment of an international civilian field in Ramat David will take 8 years.
Israel must wake up from the extreme politicization of the National Security Council Pinchas Idan and Israel Katz's deliberate failure to make a decision in order to serve the monopolization of the National Security Council which has only many and expensive shortcomings in the billions of shekels of damage to the state's welfare.
We need to proceed not tomorrow but yesterday already, as a matter of urgency to plan a massive sea drying - which will include landing and take-off runways on a dried peninsula in the Haifa Bay without any damage or noise to either Haifa or Kiryat. In any case, the ecological damage to sand drift has already been done with the Gulf port. The way to promote a huge international field in the center of the metropolis is like in many cities - within the maritime area.
אי שדה התעופה שייובש בדיוק כפי שתוך 3 שנים ייבשו את נמל המפרץ, יוקם כך שמסלולי הנחיתה וההמרעה יהיו מהים ואליו בלבד ללא צורך כלל בסיבוב מעל שטח בנוי. בנוסף ניתן כחלק מאותו ייבוש קרקע להקים מצפון לו, מעגנת כלי שיט – מרינה מול חוות המיכלים שתפונה ותהפוך לקריית הלוגיסטיקה של שדה התעופה – שינוע אחסון והאנגרים לחברות תחזוקה.
The fast connectivity of transporting goods from the Gulf Port and Haifa Port, directly to air aviation from the Lied International Airport, will further boost its regional advantages, along with shortening the flight time from Europe by 20 minutes to Israel.
Yona Yahav had 15 years to act on the issue. Not only did his inactivity cause enormous economic damage to Haifa, he also made it possible to close and destroy the technical school and the few lines from the airport that operated in the past. In fact, Haifa is competing with its hands tied behind its back and Gush Dan is constantly dealing economic blows to it, when you invested NIS 200 billion in the metro in Gush Dan, while Haifa and the Kiryat remain as the national garbage dump for polluting and carcinogenic industries and without an international airport and beaches surrounded by a stranglehold of railway electrification and fuel tank farms Toxic - this is the recipe for collapsing and blurring the gaps between the center and the rest of the country, creating the built-in weakness of all the northern metropolises that in fact
In advance, they suffer from the imbalance between replica investments in Gush Dan and the paralysis and cancellation of projects such as the Haminhor International Airport and the railways in Haifa in the north. Throw some slow light rail line to Nazareth as a small bone. Here, take it, and keep quiet and get cancer and drive two hours to Netbag.
The biggest and strongest opponent is the one with the biggest money and the one who understands will understand. Most residents of Hafa want an airport. And the opponents do not want the good of the city.
אפשר גם לבדוק אפשרות של מטען אויר שגיע לאחד משדות התעופה באירופה שישמש כ HUB
כך עושות גם כל חברות הקוריר הבינלאומיות
לפחות למטענים עד משקל מסוים
Leave the noise, this is the least of our problems.
There is no infrastructure in the area capable of absorbing the excess traffic. *Haifa will become Lod* along with unbearable traffic jams and crime.
Who is the writer and whose name is speaking on behalf of someone?
The quality of life of the residents of Haifa is not his concern and he should not suggest things that will disturb others, harm their quality of life and bother them.
There is already an airport today and it is already dangerous and disturbing.
As usual Eyal, a complete and accurate overview of the situation.
Eighth of all the failures, the issue of high-speed rail is equal to everything else, and is even dozens of times more important than all the rest combined, because a high-speed train to the central Gulf will bring prosperity to the Gulf, Haifa and the entire north.
כך גם רכבת מהירה תנגיש את נתב"ג ומקומות חשובים אחרים במרכז הארץ לתושבי חיפה והצפון. רכבת מהירה חוסכת את הצורך להגר למרכז הארץ במקרה של אובדן פרנסה בחיפה/צפון.
מטרת העל בצפון היא פינוי התעשייה המזהמת מהמפרץ, ופיתוח אורבני/סביבתי במקומה. חיפה תהפוך לעיר עם 600,000 תושבים, כאשר ביחד עם הקריות נעבור את המיליון. רק תשתית אחת תאפשר שינוי אסטרטגי שכזה במהירות – רכבת ישירה למרכזית המפרץ, כלומר, מנהרת שדרה.
ואולם, בדיונים לגבי התכנית "שער המפרץ" מי היו המתנגדים למנהרה ממרכזית המפרץ ודרומה? ניחשתם נכון, המתכננים החיפאים ופעילי סביבה חיפאים, ואלה כמובן מנעו מיו"ר איגוד ערים לקבל את ההחלטה האסטרטגית המתבקשת, לתמוך במנהרת שדרה.
כך גורמים "ירוקים" הזויים טענו ואף צוטטו בדברי הסיכום: "מנהרת שדרה תביא להקטנת ערכי הקרקע במטרופולין ו"תהרוג אותו" – יוממות מהירה לתל אביב תמנע את פיתוח לב המפרץ." אמיתי לגמרי.
כך אותם "ירוקים" (בעיני עצמם) עשו נזק לפינוי התעשייה, היעד המרכזי שלהם עצמם. חוסר הבנה, בורות, נפסדות, מלמטה (אחרון הטוקבקסטים/טוקבקסטיות) ועד למעלה (נבחרי הציבור החיפאים). ומה עמדת המועמדים לראשות העיר כיום בנושא מנהרת שדרה? תשאלו אותם אתם.
ללא תשובה ברורה מהמועמדים בנושא מנהרת שדרה, פשוט לא לתמוך בהם (ראוי לראות בעציוני ויהב כמתנגדים, ולכן חשוב לא לתמוך בהם עד אשר יציגו עמדה ברורה התומכת בנושא). ראוי להצביע רק למועמדים המתחייבים לשים תשתית זו בראש סדר העדיפויות של מועצת העיר והמוסדות המטרופוליניים.
The quote above is found in Section H according to the summary of the meetings with the planning team regarding the Gulf project, in full for your convenience here - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qwic3g90fsfnqer9jo8go/1-0822.pdf?rlkey=9zwiwrp3p93p0goybddczzpmr&dl=0
Well then, for 20 years nothing moved and only committees were appointed to grind water and what we will get now is 20 more years of waiting for a deliberate indecision between alternatives only with the addition of the passage of the noisiest small aircraft from the field in Herzliya to Haifa, the national garbage bin for all the infrastructures that pollute the soil, air and sea
It is the indifference of the residents of Haifa, who only care about their private or party interests and are not willing to go out and demonstrate collectively, that allows the officials and planners from Modi'in and Jerusalem to throw more polluting factories in Haifa, to make false promises about the removal of pollutants or to examine alternatives to the airport. They are simply used to any decision on electrification at the expense of Haifa's beaches, or another desalination plant or the transfer of small aircraft from Herzliya to Haifa - everything will be accepted with the indifference of the public and sometimes also its representatives in the municipality.
Why is this a rule?
If the residents of Tel Aviv were indifferent and the mayor was as weak as Kalish and Yahav, in the pockets of the finance boys and officials, then today the light rail would pass through Tel Aviv with the same slowness as Bat Yam, creating huge traffic jams. The mayor knew how to subdue the officials and the failed plan was avoided. If the mayors of Bat Yam and Petah Tikva were stronger, the red line would have been erected there as well.
And if there was a stronger mayor connected to the mayor of Haifa and less indifferent residents in Haifa and a city engineer who does not destroy a city, then we would be prevented a lot from planning which is the "trash bin" just as they refer to the disposal of any polluting use in the areas of Haifa.
Haifa was badly damaged and this is just the beginning of the coming year:
1. Transferring the noisy light aviation from Herzliya to Haifa
2. Electrification with fences and trellises through all the beaches of Haifa and the lower city
3. Destruction of valleys by starting the construction of bad and winding descent roads that constitute a fire trap
4. Activity in ZEN to "find" a political back candidate for the municipalities who will help it to text and cancel the evacuation of Haifa Bay
5. The attempts to move Carmel or Bnei Zion hospitals put the institutions in question for the future
6. Failure to make a decision in the government about an international airport in the north
7. A weak municipality that "won" the report of the Ministry of the Interior two months ago in last place in the management of human capital.
In such a situation, Haifa is doomed to economic paralysis for at least the next decade, and some of these failures will accompany it for decades to come.
There is nothing to show further drawings about the Sdera tunnel and routes in dry sea. It should be realized that the bilateral indifference on the part of the residents and on the part of the officials in Jerusalem, is destroying this city.
Adv. Dvir's proposal is problematic. Shabbat shalom and blessed everyone.
גישה מאוד נכונה , שדה תעופה נוסף גם יחלק את העומס על נתב"ג וכן יגרום לפיתוח מואץ של הצפון מבחינה כלכלית , יעזור לתושבי הצפון לטוס לחו"ל ללא נסיעה של כל שעות ו3 שעות נוספות לצורך הבידוק הביטחוני. כול הכבוד מקווה שמשהו רציני יקשיב לך
Enough and enough, Dvir. Did the late A Giora Rom become a politician? If he stated that it was impossible, and like the senior experts, for aviation safety reasons, that was enough for me. But always, and especially on the eve of an election, there will be politicians who will try to recycle this illusion.
I would prefer that the Bazen plant and other polluting plants be moved to the middle of the Negev, far from a residential area, and that an international airport be built in the same area that becomes vacant
In principle, Dvir's approach is correct
In my opinion, it is possible to expand on one route of 2300 meters parallel to Kiyam and adjacent to the new port which will provide more than 10 million passengers per year to all of Europe and the Persian Gulf.
Residents of the surrounding authorities and Haifa will receive, in accordance with the plan promoted, non-stop noise from the light aircraft
When the issue is not examined professionally and in the long term, the government will find a way to screw up the programs that serve the agenda of the residents and not the residents. To date, Haifa has pursued a plan that has not been promoted, and if it continues to insist, Haifa and the Kiryat will find themselves with a major environmental hazard
All the residents of the Kiryats do not want an international airport here that will create noise and an environmental hazard.
This is an unrealistic idea mainly because of all the factories, the port, places to store dangerous materials, proximity to residential areas..
In short, whoever initiated the idea, did not take all these things into account.
Well done to Erit Haifa, Kiryat Haim is not the country's garbage can! You exaggerated!
Adv. Dvir's proposal is extremely problematic despite his article. Changing the direction of the course and continuing into the Haifa Bay will cause the destruction and accelerated retreat of the Kiryat Haim and Kiryat Yam beaches by hundreds of meters within a few years. Also, the rise in sea level is already occurring and is expected to occur in 27 years ( 2050) for another 40 cm (and up to more than 1 in the event of an accelerated melting of the ice caps due to global warming combined with an increase in the frequency of storm waves and extreme winds, as well as increased flooding of Haifa Bay including the current airport area. This is without mentioning that The Airports Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority rejected the expansion of the existing field into a field that would be extended into the sea for reasons of flight safety and the residents that the planes will fly over. And the story that there will be no noise is a beautiful story but not true. As a resident of the Carmel slopes facing the Haifa Bay and a neighbor of Bnei Zion Hospital, I can testify that Already today aircraft noise is clearly heard during the day and at night after 21:00 many times. So will the addition of large aircraft reduce the noise? Please shave the beards of citizens who agree to this, the people of Haifa and the Kiryat are not ready to be guinea pigs. And one last thing. Already before Several years ago I renewed my proposal and plan for the establishment of a supplementary airport for Israel by building an artificial island in front of the shores of the Carmel Castle, with the runway and runway parallel to the coastline at a distance of 3 km from the coast, a plan that does not add any noise due to the distance from the coast and the requirement that all flights be Just above the sea and west of the runway. The connection of the island to the coast is simple, through a bridge on pillars and its connection to the coastal road as well as to the railway. The environmental impact of the field is negligible from a sedimentological point of view, with the constant action of transferring sand coming from the south to the north, creating a water area that will allow for beach recreation in front of the airport island throughout the year, proximity to the entire northern and northeastern region of Israel and the creation of new jobs and the promotion of tourism and commercial activity in the entire region "L. And equally important, the cost of building the island and the airport is slightly less than 4 billion dollars. This is the plan that received the support of the Carmel Castle Municipality and other mayors and local authorities besides the current mayor of Haifa and I am sure that soon it will be the former.
You are right about the noise. I live near the Rothschild Hospital and on particularly cold winter nights I hear the engines and generators of large ships working.
A video accompanying the column -
https://youtu.be/3Gvg4KELvqQ
3 additional international airports should be used immediately: Ramat David, Tel Nof, Hatzeri/Nabatim.
There are routes, you just need a civil terminal with fast trains to the whole country.
They did so in Turkey (Dalaman), Moscow (Zhukovsky), and other places.
The mental fixation of the Air Force and the greed of the security system need to be changed.
עם כל הכבוד, לאור התוכניות של עו'ד לנגר – שדה התעופה ורכבת ישראל , נראה לי :
A. Dvir does not like Haifa.
B. Dvir takes care of the residents of the north mainly.