Towards a marine cadastre in Israel
Srebro, Haim & Orit Marom
Israel is a coastal State. In more than 95% of its land, land settlement already exists. The Director General (DG) of the Survey of Israel launched an initiative to promote marine cadastre in Israel in order to cover the entire area of sovereignty by formal land settlement. The water areas of Israel are the lake of Kineret (Sea of Galilee), The Dead Sea, The Red Sea (The Gulf of EILAT called also The Gulf of Aqaba) and the Mediterranean Sea. The lake Kineret and part of the other water areas were taken care of in the past as internal waters in the regular process of land settlement. The southern part of the Dead Sea and the Salt Pans are now undergoing a process of land settlement and their boundaries will be defined by coordinates. The Israeli Territorial Sea in the Red Sea has also been land settled. All these three Israeli water areas which are considered either internal waters or Territorial Sea were taken care of as a continuous extension of the land cadastre. A plan for the "land" settlement and creation of a marine cadastre in the Territorial Sea of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea has been launched in 2009 to define a coordinate based marine cadastre. These efforts are incorporated also in the process of promoting a coordinate based cadastre (CBC) in Israel.
Only personal, non-commercial use of this document is allowed.