Israel Union for Environmental Defense
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The Israel Union for Environmental Defense , is an environmentalist
group in Israel
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. One of the islands would be for an airport, similar to the Kobe airport
in Japan, and the other island would have houses, commercial offices and tourism
. Then IUED executive director Phil Warburg called the proposal a "technological fantasy that is highly improper [because of] Israel’s economic and environmental constraints."
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
group in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
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Tel Aviv islands
In November 2002 the Israeli Government appointed a six-member committee to explore the financial feasibility of creating two islands off the coast of Tel AvivTel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. One of the islands would be for an airport, similar to the Kobe airport
Kobe Airport
is an airport on an artificial island just off the coast of Kobe, south of Sannomiya Station Japan. It primarily handles domestic flights, but can also accommodate international charter flights. In the first year of operation the airport handled 2,697,000 passengers with an average load factor of...
in Japan, and the other island would have houses, commercial offices and tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
. Then IUED executive director Phil Warburg called the proposal a "technological fantasy that is highly improper [because of] Israel’s economic and environmental constraints."