The Israel authorities and Ramat Gan Municipality have reached an settlement wherein the Ramat Gan Safari Park will transfer to close by Ariel Sharon Park (Hiriya) with a state grant of NIS 500 million. The Safari Park will thus stay in Ramat Gan and underneath the administration of the Ramat Gan Municipality, which a residential neighborhood can be constructed on the vacated land.
The transfer was formulated after protracted talks between Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen, and the Prime Minister’s Workplace, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environmental Safety and the Israel Land Authority.
As a part of the settlement, a further interchange can be constructed on Highway 4, which is able to scale back visitors congestion on the Aluf Sade Interchange and within the southeast of the town.
As well as, a brand new residential neighborhood with hundreds of housing models is deliberate. Shama-Hacohen insists the neighborhood can be designed for the town’s younger individuals, and in accordance with him, the neighborhood can be deliberate and promoted utilizing AI. The settlement additionally features a main enlargement of the nationwide park by a number of hundred dunams (50 acres), opening inexperienced areas that have been closed to the general public and including hundreds of recent bushes.
Shama Hacohen says, “Relocating the Safari Park will present a greater high quality of life for Ramat Gan residents and higher welfare for the animals. Ramat Gan can be greater, extra progressive, greener, extra flowing and youthful. This isn’t only a geographical switch and the enlargement of the town and the nationwide park, however a strategic transfer that guarantees a brand new and progressive Safari Park funded by the state and and not using a shekel in municipal taxes, rising the town’s jurisdiction, creating the biggest inexperienced strip in Gush Dan, a real answer for visitors jams on the Aluf Sade freeway, growing new sources of employment and revenue, establishing public, cultural and sports activities buildings that had nowhere till now, and a one-time alternative to plan a wise neighborhood primarily based on AI with inexpensive houses for younger individuals.”
The settlement can be formally signed on Thursday at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 27, 2026.
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