New ILA chief halts Haifa Bay renewal plan
Yaakov Kvint, who was appointed Israel Land Authority director in December, has frozen work on the plan for evacuating Haifa Bay s petrochemical plants.
The committee of ministry directors general examining the future of the petrochemicals plants in Haifa Bay has been working for the past several months on its conclusions, and is due to hold a final meeting on the matter today. Meanwhile, however, the newly appointed director of the Israel Land Authority, Yaakov (Yanki) Kvint, has decided to freeze the Haifa Bay urban renewal plan, without which evacuation of the petrochemical plants is not economically viable.