Flights at the new Ramon International Airport in Timna, 10km north of Eilat, are expected to begin taking off in 2017.  The airport is named after Ilan Ramon – Israel’s first astronaut and his son Assaf and will initially handle two million passengers a year.

http://www.touristisrael.com/ramon-airport/17886/

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