Last week (beginning of August 2023) the Supreme Court (in its session as the Court of Appeals for Administrative Matters) considered appeals against a judgment of the Court of Administrative Matters in Haifa.
The ruling of the court in Haifa rejected petitions, which were submitted against the decisions of the National Commission for Planning and Construction of Preferred Complexes (the National Committee for the Planning and Construction of Preferred Complexes) to deposit and approve the plan of the National Committee for the Planning and Construction of Preferred Complexes (Havatmal) 1025 "Kiryat Ata North". The appellants are the Kibbutz Committee, the Action Committee to Save the Remains of Agriculture in Emek Zebulon, Kibbutz Shaar Hamakim, Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan, GDS Ram and Kfar Bialik.
What is the Tamal 1025 plan?
The Tamal 1025 plan deals with the establishment of a new residential neighborhood of approximately 10,950 units for residences, public buildings and institutions, commerce, offices and employment. In the plan, 1,400 units are earmarked for sheltered housing and, in addition, a regional hospital with 2,200 beds, a higher education institution and open public areas. The plan also refers to the dedicated public transportation in the area.
Supreme: "Order the removal of the hospital from the scope of the program"
The Deputy President of the Supreme Court Uzi Fogelman stated that the appeals must be partially accepted. "I found that the appeals should be partially accepted, and the hospital should be ordered to be removed from the scope of the plan. I also found that the designation of areas for planning for the future goes beyond the authority of the Ministry of Health; And that in view of amendment No. 7 to the law, the Ministry of Defense must return and examine the proportionality of the damage to the village of Bialik."
Later, the judge says that the plan is wide-ranging, and in its main part the court should not interfere, therefore there is no room for canceling the entire plan. What needs to be done is to return the discussion to Vatmal to correct what is necessary according to the judges' decision and to consider the damage to the village of Bialik.
The representative of the appellants, attorney Ron Rogin: "The transfer of the hospital will not take place"
Attorney Ron Rogin, who represented the appellants, said that the Supreme Court clearly ruled on this scandal and put an end to it:
"The Supreme Court ruled that there is no connection between the solution to the residential housing crisis and the hospital. First, there is a need for agreements "with all the relevant parties" for both the evacuation and the transfer of the Pliman and Mazur hospitals [a psychiatric hospital] as well as the Bnei Zion hospital." or parallel hospitals." The program itself emphasizes that the approval of the Ministry of Health and, in addition, the approval of the Ministry of Finance are necessary for these agreements. There are no such agreements and there is no prospect of any signing of these agreements in the near future. It's all talk.
Second, there is no budgetary source for moving the hospitals; There is no liquid and immediate budget section for the construction of a hospital in Kiryat Ata - you can find this out with the Ministry of Finance; There is simply no such thing. It is not clear who will build an entire hospital(!) without concrete budgetary authorization. It's all talk.
It is appropriate to pour in now - urgently - funds, resources and sources to strengthen the existing hospitals in Haifa and the entire north - money and not promises on the ice; Money - not talk.
Third, in the plan - in relation to the hospital: there are no basic detailed planning documents at all, such as environmental quality guidelines; sewage treatment; noise and smell infrastructures; Waste [including organic waste and treatment of biological and chemical substances] - everything will "be done in the future". It's all talk.
Fourth, there is no expansion of the "hospital" without an occupancy of no less than 8,000 units - which means that these are things that are not going to happen.
I represented in the appeal the settlements that have been cultivating this land for over 80 years, led by the village of Bialik - as mentioned, the largest root growers in the country [most of the roots are grown in this area]. Horseradish is a white solid underground root; Its taste is very spicy; He is considered very healthy."
Representative of the Binui Shepoi association Moshe Fisher: "Within Kiryat Ata, there are hundreds of building permits that have already been issued, but despite this they are not building on them"
Also in court was Moshe Fisher, who is a representative of the association "Binui Shafoi" of the kibbutzim and moshavim on the issue of the Vatmal:
"The High Court returned the planning of what was done to Kfar Bialik for re-planning. Our claim is that the damage is disproportionate. They take productive lands located in the village of Bialik, farmers who cultivated the state before the establishment of the state, and decide to build on these lands.
If there was a valid reason, we would not object. But to build a hospital and an industrial park and to build thousands of units in Kiryat Bialik, we do not see this as a justified reason to destroy the land and the crops."
"Within Kiryat Ata, there are hundreds of building permits that have already been granted, but despite this, they are not being built on. There is a housing shortage, prices are rising, but in the north, both in Acre and in Shlomo, sales are very slow and demand is very low.
In 2015 they took land from Kibbutz Adamit and built on it for the benefit of the residents of Shlomi and the surrounding area. A total of 15-20% of what they took was built, uprooting over 30,000 yielding avocado trees. Isn't it heartbreaking to uproot so many trees and in the end barely use the land?
Even in Acre it is neither simple nor easy, the people of Israel did not run to live in Acre. We see that in Karmiel there is no addition of residents. This is all part of the picture. Rami and the planning director cannot work in a vacuum. The planning director is not a contractor or entrepreneur. When they come and take land from the kibbutzim, it is important to protect the land."
The recommendation of the inter-ministerial team: "Move the Carmel Medical Center to Kiryat Ata"
It should be noted that at the same time this week it was announced that an inter-ministerial team established by the Ministry of Health last year recommended moving the Carmel Medical Center to Kiryat Ata and the Bnei Zion Hospital to the building currently used by the Carmel Hospital. The team is led by Dr. Hagar Mizrahi. The team estimates that it will take 6.5 years to build the hospital in Kiryat. This proposal complements the 1025 plan, according to which an existing hospital will move to Kiryat, but now after the results of the appeal, it is not clear how things will progress.
There is a possibility of offering a tender to build a complex for the hospital. Bring money. There are enough strong entrepreneurs in the real estate market... allocate space and paperwork and we will take care of money and engineering and architectural planning according to the requirement of the legislator and the local authority, etc.
A hospital must be accessible - and quickly.
You have to walk around Haifa for half an hour until you reach it, and that's on a day when there are no unexpected roadblocks and traffic jams.
This is what we said, the kibbutzim are the owners of the land and they are fighting the reform, in order to resist handing over land that does not belong to them for the development of the state, creating the spear from the sack.
A very important article, especially in light of the discussion in the Haifa press last week about the relocation of Carmel Hospital to Kiryat Ata, without reference to the various aspects of such an operation. The attitude that it makes sense to take agricultural land from farmers who have been cultivating it for many years, to uproot an orchard of tens of thousands of avocado trees and in the end not even use the land was very disturbing.
The lawyer is wrong because the previous Minister of Finance, Haberman, included the hospital in the base of the budget, therefore now the restoration of the hospital is closed and finished, of course the first step is its planning
Farmers are not fools!! what do you want from them The areas designated for the hospital are not agricultural areas at all. If the mayor of the nearby city had acted the right way, then the planning process would have progressed more efficiently. The issue of budgets and standards for the hospital is not related to agriculture at all
fools the farmers,
It is for their benefit that the hospital is brought closer to them.
They forget that they are getting old too.
Is this a hospital?!
It's a nightmare factory.
By the way
There are some people there who come to print a card, not to carry out the doctors' agreement.
If it is possible to take Mor on the road to Kiryat, I will take you from the center of Horeb.
A hospital in Kiryat Ata, a hospital in Shafaram (it's the same hospital) are empty words. There is no budget and there won't be because factually it is easier to expand an existing hospital - Rambam and Nahariya and they have land reserves for expansion than to build a new one. A new one will be built by a private entity like Assuta but that is already politics. Practical, healthy. And the welfare of the north is of no interest to the Israeli governments. many years
Rambam has been expanded for years
B. The average wait in the emergency room is about 7 hours
third. Bnei Zion and Carmel cannot expand them because they do not have Ren.
third. In the whole area of Kiryat / Shafaram it is difficult to get to Rambam quickly because of the traffic jams in the lower city.
D. There is a lot of availability for appointments for surgeries / mri, etc. at the center
In Yod in the north, the queues can take a year.
50 years promise to budget a hospital in Kiryat Ata. 10 governments, 10 ministers of health promised. In the end, a combine is brought from the land of combines, a hospital is dragged from Haifa... who will rebuild it in Kiryat Ata? Oh, no budget. Tel Aviv in the exceptions of every light rail line - pouring another 3-4 billion shekels for fun, what happened.. Metro 200 billion.. what happened, we need it.
A hospital for a quarter of a million residents of Kiryat? No no, there are no budgets for that.. What's half a billion shekels? Where are we going to get such a huge sum?
The state should turn to Assuta, as they established in Ashdod and Tel Aviv and now in Beer Sheva - to establish a new hospital in Kiryat Ata. Not from Haifa. that Mayor Peretz, who is proud of his connections in the Likud government, will bring half a billion shekels to a new hospital. Why doesn't he succeed?!
50 years promise to budget a hospital in Kiryat Ata. 10 governments, 10 ministers of health promised. In the end, a combine is brought from the land of combines, a hospital is dragged from Haifa... who will rebuild it in Kiryat Ata? Oh, no budget. Sub-Aviv deviations of every light rail line - pouring another 3-4 billion shekels for fun, what happened.. Metro 200 billion.. what happened, we need it.
A space house for a quarter of a million residents of Kiryat? No no, there are no budgets for that.. What's half a billion shekels? Where are we going to get such a huge sum?
The state should turn to Asuta, as they established in Ashdod and Tel Aviv and now in Beer Sheva - to establish a new hospital in Kiryat Ata. Not from Haifa. that Mayor Peretz, who is proud of his connections in the Likud government, will bring half a billion shekels to a new hospital. Why doesn't he succeed?!
Does the fact that Assuta received state grants in the amount of 1 billion NIS, to build the hospital in Ashdod - change in any way your recommendation to let Assuta build the hospital in Kiryat Ata?
I'm sure the government is ready to let them build, of course at their expense, as early as tomorrow morning.