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Updated: 8/07/2008
Israel’s most important – and perhaps most threatened – environmental resource is open space. The country’s land resources are severely limited. Contiguous open spaces that contain nature, landscape, and heritage values and provide leisure and recreation areas are fast disappearing. The little that is left is subject to major development pressures. Under conditions of land scarcity, planners have been forced to grapple with the question of which areas may be built-up and which should remain as open space to fulfill a variety of social and ecological functions. Since the loss of open space to development is an irreversible process, the question of the future management of open space is of critical importance. In recent years, the Ministry of the Environment, in cooperation with green bodies, has spearheaded a policy aimed at balancing between development and conservation. Along with the Planning Administration of the Ministry of the Interior, the Environment Ministry is working to assimilate this new policy into national and regional master plans.
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