Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced Sunday that the new international airport to be built in Timna, north of Eilat, will be named in memory of Ilan and Assaf Ramon.
Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, was one of seven members of the crew of the United States space shuttle Columbia, which broke up on re-entry in 2003. His son Assaf was killed in an Air Force training accident last September.