{"id":6564,"date":"2025-11-02T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamteva.org.il\/?post_type=news_and_updates&#038;p=6564"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:21:09","slug":"opposition-to-plans-for-golf-housing-complex-on-ashkelons-coastal-strip","status":"publish","type":"news_and_updates","link":"https:\/\/adamteva.org.il\/en\/news_and_updates\/opposition-to-plans-for-golf-housing-complex-on-ashkelons-coastal-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to plans for golf &amp; housing complex on Ashkelon&#8217;s coastal strip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Israel Land Authority (ILA) is advancing a plan to build a vast golf complex on about 145 acres of coastal land at the northwestern edge of Ashkelon \u2014 part of a a 350-acre area that once housed a quarry and municipal landfill. The plan also includes 1,140 housing units, a 650-room hotel, and 120 small apartments, with a commercial promenade and public walkway overlooking the coastal cliff. Despite the area\u2019s previous designation as a \u201ccoastal recreation park,\u201d the Southern District Committee decided in 2023 to permit residential construction, arguing that the housing is needed to finance and maintain the golf course. The Coastal Protection Committee approved the plan in May 2024, claiming it would \u201cenhance the coastal environment\u201d and better connect the city to the sea. Mayor Tomer Glam hailed the project as a national opportunity to place Ashkelon \u201con the tourism map.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong><br>Public open space becomes an area for a limited public \u2014 and for a fee<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Teva V\u2019Din has filed an appeal against to the plan, warning that de facto the proposed project would convert valuable public space into a fenced, fee-based facility accessible only to a limited public. <strong>Yael Dori<\/strong>, head of planning at Adam Teva V\u2019Din and representative of the green organizations on the Coastal Protection Committee points out that the opportunity to link the city with its open spaces will be lost to the golf course project, which turns public land into private, fenced space. In other words, this public open space becomes an area for a limited public \u2014 and for a fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>Economic Distortion and Public Costs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Teva V\u2019Din\u2019s Economics Department sees that the state would be heavily subsidizing private development. To make the project economically viable for the developer, the state will be required to subsidize it by hundreds of millions of shekels. Instead of investing directly to remove the waste and rehabilitate the site, the state is choosing a far more expensive route \u2014 about US $35 million for hotel subsidies, US $33 million for infrastructure and the golf park, and another US $33 million in waived land values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amit Bracha<\/strong>, executive director adds that Adam Teva V\u2019Din has fought for two decades to maintain the public\u2019s right of access to public beaches and to safeguard the Mediterranean coastline from over-development:<br><strong>\u201cThe proposed Ashkelon golf course and housing complex is a a distortion of priorities: instead of investing public funds in cleanup, the state is subsidizing a private real-estate project and giving up a valuable public asset.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Teva V\u2019Din warns that the project will privatize public space and damage one of Israel\u2019s last stretches of open coastline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6569,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[62],"tags":[95,108],"class_list":["post-6564","news_and_updates","type-news_and_updates","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coasts","tag-planning"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opposition to plans for golf &amp; 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