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The committee for the selection of the location for the complementary field to Ben Gurion Airport is expected to convene and submit its recommendations to the Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli, within three months, but it seems that there are currently many disagreements and the road to approval is longer than ever.
The Minister of Transportation himself brought to the government’s approval the cancellation of the previous decision to build the field in Ramat David, adjacent to the existing Air Force base there. One option is out of the question, what will happen to the others?
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According to Ynet, a source in the committee says that in accordance with the government’s decision, the committee is not considering the use of Ramat David as a civilian field at all, and currently the committee will not submit a recommendation.
A planning source said in the same article that “Israel is a small country, and all these locations have already been checked and disqualified. Even where there is ostensibly open space, existing flight routes must be considered and any route chosen must always be able to function in both directions of takeoff and landing.” “.
In addition, the government has determined that the new airport will be built in the format of establishing the airport for a period of 25 years. With all the inability to reach agreement, there is still an urgency in establishing the additional field. The demand is for a field that can accommodate 20 million passengers a year.
Previous committees have estimated that such can be established only at the level of David or in the Nabataeans. However, the committee is now examining the operation of significantly small fields and each of these locations has its own problems:
Megiddo: will require a low-altitude flight over the Carmel, which is a noise nuisance and a safety hazard, will limit activity in Ramat David and will require part of the wind direction to take off and land over the Palestinian Authority in Samaria.
Haifa: The Ministry of Transportation and the planning committees have already decided to transfer to Haifa most of the activity of the Herzliya field, which must be closed by 2025. The field’s location near Carmel does not allow equipment flights required in severe weather.
Hadera East: Resistance from residents, and an order given by Defense Minister Bnei Gantz to his people to oppose the approval of the plan make it difficult to do so.
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Atarot: Activities in the field were stopped at the beginning of the second intifada due to stone-throwing by Palestinians from nearby Qalandiya. Beyond the security risk, also, an airport in such a location is beyond the Green Line, and most foreign airlines will probably boycott it.
Hatzor: An active air base of the Air Force. Its simultaneous operation as a civilian field, with aircraft that need different routes than fighter jets, will interfere with Tel Nof activity and to a lesser extent the Palmachim base, and will create a load on Ben Gurion Airport’s airspace, which will limit takeoffs and landings there.
Sprouts: A large and busy base of the Air Force. Its expansion into a civilian field would make it difficult to operate and transport fighter jets, colliding with the flight paths used as the base of the premises.
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