The Interior Ministry's Urban Planning and Construction Committee publicized on Monday its plan to construct a monument in Jerusalem in memory of the victims of the infamous 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. 
Aside from the planned Jerusalem monument, there are nine memorials to the 9/11 victims in various towns throughout Israel.
The planned monument will be situated within the grounds of a city park in Emek Ha'arazim (Valley of the Cedars). Access to the memorial will make use exclusively of currently existing footpaths in the park. The monument's placement will also ensure its exposure to the traveling public, as a new light-rail bridge cutting through the valley is slated to pass right alongside it.
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) initiated the proposal for the Jerusalem 9/11 monument, designed by sculptor Eliezer Weisshoff. Previous Weisshoff monuments include a chiseled stone and bronze sculpture dedicated to the memory of those killed in a suicide bombing of the Apropos restaurant in Tel Aviv.
The legally-required publication of the plans for the new Jerusalem memorial affords the public the opportunity to file objections to the proposal. Barring any serious complaints, final approval of the 9/11 monument by the responsible government committee is expected later this year.
On September 11, 2001, nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four domestic US flights. The jihadists flew two of the planes into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, eventually bringing them crashing down. A third plane slammed into the Pentagon in Washington DC, while a fourth plane was apparently liberated from the terrorists but crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. All told, over 3,000 people died in the attacks, among them four Israelis: Alona Avraham, Danni Lewin, Shai Levinhar and Hagay Shefi.
Aside from the planned Jerusalem monument, there are nine memorials to the 9/11 victims in various towns throughout Israel. With the assistance of the respective city mayors, and at the initiative of Dov Shefi, father of Hagay, two parks and seven squares currently commemorate the thousands of victims. The cities and towns with such memorials are Or Yehuda, Herzliya, Nes Tziona, Ashkelon, Eilat, Be'er Sheva, Ashdod, Yehud and Rishon LeTzion. The most recent addition, a square in Rishon LeTzion, was dedicated on September 11, 2007, by Mayor Meir Nitzan and the US Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission, Luis Moreno.