Tel Aviv's Sde Dov Airport close in 2016

All military and civil air traffic would transfer to Ben Gurion Airport
 
The Ministry of Finance, Israel Land Authority, and Israel Airports Authority signed an agreement in principle to vacate Sde Dov Airport in north Tel Aviv by 2016.
 
According to the agreement 12,000 apartments are planned to be built on the site.
 
Under the agreement in principle, the Airports Authority will cease all operations at Sde Dov by June 30, 2016. Operations will be transferred to Terminal 1 at Ben Gurion Airport and other sites.
 
Sde Dov Airport also known as Dov Hoz Airport is an airport located in Tel Aviv, Israel which mainly handles scheduled domestic flights to Eilat (and Ovda), northern Israel (Haifa and the Galilee) as well as light-aircraft activity and limited international flights. 
 
The agreement in principle to vacate Sde Dov Airport was reached after Minister of Housing and Construction Ariel Atias and Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz submitted their plan to vacate the airport to the cabinet in January.