ISRAEL TO UNVEIL NEW GREEN TUNNEL IN HAIFA

The Carmel Tunnel, a new traffic route and the longest of its kind in Israel, will open under strict eco-friendly standards next month in Haifa, Israel’s chief port and third-largest city. The 3.5-mile route is built atop a former landfill and connects Haifa’s eastern and western districts, redirecting drivers from downtown to an alternative route to the eastern and central parts of the city and Haifa Bay. The new tunnel prevents the extensive environmental impact that the construction of an overland road would have caused. The tunnel project also includes the replacement of local soil, natural shrubbery and the native white lilies on the slopes surrounding the Rupin interchange, one of the largest thruways in Israel.