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Jun. 1, 2021 1:40 PM
The preparations went on for years. Every drive along Highway 4 to Ra’anana afforded quick glimpses of the fortress-like compound. Every visit to friends in Herzliya included vital intelligence-gathering about fences, barricades and observation points. I tried not to look straight into the security cameras affixed to the electricity poles there. On other days, as I walked alongside the fence that surrounds the Israel Military Industries (aka IMI, or Taas, its Hebrew acronym) complex, in the Sharon region of central Israel, I wore a wide-brimmed hat – perfect for someone on a secret mission to crack the big mystery in the heart of the country.
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Jan. 26, 2021
A joint commission for planning and construction in the Central and Tel Aviv Districts has approved a plan to build tens of thousands of homes east of Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hasharon suburb.
The area is currently the site of Israel Military Industries plants, which are moving to the Negev over the next few years. The plan for a suburb called Kidmat Sharon would also seriously undermine one of the most important green areas in the center of the country.
The plan was initiated by the Israel Lands Authority with the aim of increasing the supply of apartments in the central region. The revenue the state is to receive from marketing the land to contractors is meant to finance the purification of the soil and groundwater polluted over the years by the IMI factories.