In the years ahead, Israel will need significantly more electricity, larger infrastructure footprints, and far more advanced energy solutions. This is no longer a distant forecast, it is a reality already taking shape before our eyes.

Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data centers, advanced industries, electric transportation, and smart urban systems all depend on one fundamental resource: energy. Every technological leap depends on power plants, energy storage facilities, transmission lines, land, roads, high-voltage networks, drainage systems, and municipal services.

Yet one fundamental question remains unanswered: Who should benefit from the economic value created on public land?

Today, the model is clear. The state promotes national infrastructure projects. Private developers build them. Economic gains flow to a limited group of stakeholders. Meanwhile, the municipality that hosts the project is often left to absorb the consequences without receiving a fair share of the benefits.

More traffic. Greater maintenance demands. Increased security needs. Expanded municipal services. Environmental mitigation. Additional public expenditure. All of these fall on the local authority and, ultimately, on the residents.

At the Haifa and Northern District Planning and Construction Conference, I introduced a concept that borrows from the familiar idea of nationalization, but shifts the discussion........

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