The largest and most complex environmental project in the State of Israel .

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From Hiriya in the east to Begin Park in the west, right at the residents´ doorstep, a giant park is under construction. The park, which will include rivers, a lake and leisure and nature activities, will connect between South Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Azur, This is the Ayalon Park … by the year 2020, there will be some 3.3 million residents in the Tel Aviv area. At present, the residents of this area, and particularly, of South Tel Aviv, do not have any substantial open space which is similar in quality to the Yarkon region in North Tel Aviv.
… And It´s On Its Way! - As early as Spring 2004, over ten kilometers of cycling paths will be opened to the public as well as a new area in Begin Park and other parts of the Ayalon Park. Visitors will enjoy spending their leisure time there. It is important for visitors to come, to ensure the continuation of the project … so that the entire park will be constructed for our pleasure and so that the last green lungs of the city will be preserved

The Park will be 3 times the size of "Central Park" in NY .

Today \/
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First stage \/
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Proposals & renderings \/
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Its impressive and im glad they did it, thinking about the future is so important, when 5 Million people would be living in the Tel Aviv area A park of that scale would be crucial, Im proud of the initiators and even prouder of the Tel Aviv environmental wing which takes care of this....Well dont, All Israelis are thankful!

wow - this is an amazing project...

very VERY important for the long-term quality of life in Tel Aviv.... reserve and protect the open spaces now while you still have the chance... because once these areas are built up there is no going back...

That is really awesome and amazing ideas of the projects.... Go Tel Aviv :)

When is it gonna to be completed the project?

there is also a huge park planned on the north. so now the metropolitan area will have 3 large parks.
check out the map in my thread in this forum.

That is quite a massive park project. Looks rather nice and like it could provide plenty of recreation for all the people in the city, and beyond. Really well planned.

Tel Aviv Regional Planning Board approves Ayalon Park visitors center

The $3 million center will hold seminars and international conferences on recycling.

Dalia Tal 17 Jul 05 15:37

The Tel Aviv Regional Planning and Building Board has approved a plan for a visitors center at the former Hiriya garbage dump, as part of the Ayalon Park. The Bracha Foundation will finance the $3 million center.
The four-dunam (one-acre) project will include Israel’s largest environmental and recycling educational center. The center will teach about waste, recycling, and ecology, and will hold seminars on garbage recycling and creative uses of garbage and recycled materials. It will also host international conferences on recycling. The center will have an ecological water purification system using pools with water plants.

As part of the project, it was decided to renovate a historic building used to make compost, which has a unique architectural façade. The structure will include a large showroom for temporary exhibits on environmental issues. It will also serve as a terminal for tours of the site, and later as an entry gate to the Ayalon Park, which the National Planning and Building Board approved as green lungs for the central district.

20,000 people visit the site every year, and the hope is to double this number.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on July 17, 2005


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Am I the only one who's reminded of Ayers Rock when I see this pic? :colgate:

מה זה Ayers rock סליחה על הבורות

i'm sure it's israeli greenpeace's plan:)))

This is all really great. Hard to believe that a lot of projects are happening in bureaucratic Israel but it seems things are changing a bit.

At least we won't have to worry about the landfills anymore, not that there has been a way to get develope over them.

This is all really great. Hard to believe that a lot of projects are happening in bureaucratic Israel but it seems things are changing a bit.

:lol: I am sorry, but this shows the ignorance of some of you people. Without the "evil bureaucracy", you would NEVER get this project - this was approved by the "evil regional planning comittee". If you had no "evil bureaucracy" you'd get a residential neighborhood there.

Thank god for "evil bureaucracy" - the thing that keeps large areas of free land safe from the harm of low-rise suburban sprawl, and other general idiocy.

:lol: I am sorry, but this shows the ignorance of some of you people. Without the "evil bureaucracy", you would NEVER get this project - this was approved by the "evil regional planning comittee". If you had no "evil bureaucracy" you'd get a residential neighborhood there.

Thank god for "evil bureaucracy" - the thing that keeps large areas of free land safe from the harm of low-rise suburban sprawl, and other general idiocy.
I don’t really care about such technicalities in any of the projects but believe me that there are always forces holding things back, interfering in the work of every committee (like the greens or some construction tycoons in other cases) and that is what I mean by bureaucracy (not necessarily those committees).
Anyway there is really no need to discuss my small optimistic remark even if it has shown too you how uninformed I am in standards and procedures of this kind.

I am sorry at my outburst, it's just there is this whole air of misinformation against government institutions, thru a campain led by neoliberals, that makes people say wrong things.... this really gets to me, so I get rather upset.

at least out of israel local municipalities fraud and corruption and
stupid actions once in a while
comes something good!

Well, what do you do to stop corruption? :)