Ramon Airbase


Ramon Airbase is an Israeli Air Force base southwest of Beersheba, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon. Also titled Kanaf 25, it was formerly known as Matred. It was built as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after the peninsula was handed over to Egypt following the 1978 Camp David Accords. It was constructed between 1979 and 1982 by Air Base Constructors, a joint venture of Guy F. Atkinson Company, sponsor, ; Dillingham Corporation ; and Nello L. Teer Company in association with Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton.
Its current commander is Col. Zvi Levi.

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