A major issue for the future of Israel is the importance of the elimination of polluting petrochemical plants in Haifa Bay, which are very dangerous from a security perspective too.
Instead modern residential areas should be set up.
Like the military bases evacuation in centeral Israel, this will help solve the problem of housing too.
The Petrochemical plants are situated on valuable land, on sea and river shores, with a spectacular view and in the heart of population centers. State taxes these plants pay are far lower compared to the taxes to be paid by a population which can live in new cities on their grounds.
These days opposition proceedings continue to the new master plan of Haifa, which is in favor of the continued development of new port facilities and construction of huge container yards with infinite space, together with development of the petrochemical plants.
The majority of the plants production is for export and most of the ships containers will stay in the yards only for transit.
The needless extra port and the plants should move to third world countries, if only for reasons of economic viability, as in the past the textile industry moved from Israel to such countries.
Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav and his coalition are in favor of the formation of the new monsterous port and development of the poisonous pertochemical plants. As a result of this conceptual failure Haifa social-economic structure is crumbling.
