http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/08/15/de ... r-housing/
Deal Signed To clear Tel Aviv’s Dov Hoz Airport For Housing
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel, and Transportation Ministry director-general Ettie Itzhak on Wednesday signed an agreement to close Tel Aviv’s Sde Dov Airport and replace it with housing.
“After decades, we’ve made the historic decision to allocate the resources to clear the airport,” Lapid said.
The Israel Lands Administration will invest NIS 230 million to build a replacement airport at Ben-Gurion Airport by June 2016, two years earlier than originally planned.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/ ... 3&fid=1124
In a brief ceremony in a small room at Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv this morning, while scores of Arkia Airlines Ltd. and Israir Airlines and Tourism Ltd. employees demonstrated outside, the official agreement to vacate the airport was signed. The signing concludes years of discussions and arguments over the vacating of the civil and military airfields and the construction of 16,000 housing units on the site in north Tel Aviv.
Under the current timetable, the civilian airfield will be vacated in 2016. "In June 2016, the bulldozers will work on the site," said Minister of Finance Yair Lapid at the ceremony. The military airfield will be vacated in 2017.
...and this means that the lot over at
http://www.scramblemagazine.nl/orbats/israel#LLSD101 has got to look for a new home...
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