Ramon Airport

Israel to build new international airport in Negev, PMO announces

The project, initially approved by the Economic Affairs Committee in March of 2025, is also intended to help alleviate traffic at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
AN EL AL flight takes off, 14 July, 2025,

Israel’s aviation rebounds in 2025 with 33% increase in passengers

 Wizz Air

Wizz Air plans Eilat-Budapest route, Israel bases from March

View of the Ramon Airport near Eilat, after a drone launched from Yemen struck the airport, September 7, 2025

Israel's forgotten airport: Ramon Airport security, health safety ignored, comptroller warns


On this day in 2003: Ilan Ramon dies aboard Columbia Space Shuttle

Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, was killed along with the rest of his crew when the space shuttle disintegrated upon reentering the Earth's atmosphere.

Space shuttle Columbia Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, during training on the operation of an M113 armored personnel carrier during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 18, 2002.

Palestinian are pawns in the Ramon Airport fiasco - opinion

Just as Palestinians have been threatened and criticized for taking higher-paying jobs in settlements, so too Palestinians are being threatened if they fly out of Ramon Airport.

 PALESTINIANS ARE being threatened if they fly out of Ramon Airport, according to the Palestinian transportation minister

Ramon Airport sparks crisis between Jordan, Palestinians

Some Jordanians said they are convinced that the PA, which has publicly expressed opposition to the opening of the airport to Palestinian travelers, has struck a secret deal with Israel.

 Arkia flight to Cyprus from Ramon Airport, August 22, 2022.

Israeli airlines need to facilitate travel for Palestinians to other countries - editorial

Enabling Israeli airlines to facilitate travel for Palestinians to Turkey and other countries makes the utmost sense.

 Arkia flight to Cyprus from Ramon Airport, August 22, 2022.

Israel delays plan to allow Wֿest Bank Palestinians to fly out of Ramon Airport

Israel, for security reasons, does not allow most West Bank Palestinians to travel out of Ben Gurion Airport. 

 A plane is reflected in the facade of the Ramon International Airport after an inauguration ceremony for the new airport, just outside the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel January 21, 2019.

Palestinians can start flying out of Ramon airport later this month

West Bank Palestinians who want to travel abroad must now go through the Allenby Crossing in the Jordan Valley and into neighboring Jordan for international flights out of Amman.

Cargo plane with military equipment lands at Ramon Airport

Palestinians can start flying out of Ramon airport later this month

West Bank Palestinians who want to travel abroad must now go through the Allenby Crossing in the Jordan Valley and into neighboring Jordan for international flights out of Amman.

Cargo plane with military equipment lands at Ramon Airport

Israel's Ramon Airport to open for Palestinian passengers - report

A first charter flight of passengers from the West Bank is set to leave from Ramon International Airport later in August.

RAMON AIRPORT in the Timna Valley, north of Eilat.

Palestinians ‘not excited’ about Israel’s offer to use Ramon Airport

Musa Rahhal, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Transport and Communications, said that the PA is officially opposed to the idea.

Cargo plane with military equipment lands at Ramon Airport

Cargo plane with military equipment lands at Ramon Airport

The plane landing shows that the airport can receive military and civilian equipment and aid in the case of emergencies.

Cargo plane with military equipment lands at Ramon Airport