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September 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Current army base in Southern Israel
Israel has started a project to turn Southern Israel into very populated area of the country after languishing for many years, according to reports in the news media.
The Israeli army has begun construction of its largest training base ever moving operations of some of the most expensive real estate in the country to the arid sands of southern Israel, in a new attempt to make the dream of Israel’s founding fathers to make the desert bloom.
The construction project of $650 million is the largest of the military in three decades: Beginning in late 2014, 10,000 troops will be moved to the new base 30 kilometers or 20 miles south of the city of Beersheba from its current headquarters in the Tel Aviv-area, the country’s heartland.
The program is designed to simplify combat training, now held in various facilities, into one place.
But critics question whether it will revive the economy of the Negev region as officials promise.
“Not since Israel withdrew its bases from the Sinai desert in Egypt in early 1980 under the treaty between the two countries has the army carried out a project of this size, in terms of cost, the number of soldiers involved and pure physical size,” project manager Lt. Col. Shalom Alfassy said.
At present, only a few buildings are standing in the 625 acres earmarked for the site. But within two years, 2.7 million square feet of construction is supposed to go up, including barracks, hundreds of computerized classrooms, simulation sites and shooting ranges.
The base will not train combat soldiers, but drivers, paramedics and other troops to support regular troops on the front. It will not take away operations and military headquarters of the Ministry of
Defense from the heart of Tel Aviv.
The project is part of a larger movement to relocate military installations to the Negev. Alfassy says about half of the bases in the center of Israel will move to the region by the end of the decade.
Negev accounts for more than half of Israel’s land mass but is home to only 8 percent of its 8 million inhabitants. So it was the vision of Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, to get the desert to flourish. But poor services caused the area to languish, despite a series of government programs and improved roads and rails to increase the population.
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