Sure - maybe you get a canal from the Mediterranean down to Eilat where you’ve got about 2 miles of undeveloped Israeli waterfront before the Gulf of Aquba hits the Egyptian border.
The bigger, and probably insurmountable issue is that the Gulf of Aquba runs down between Egypt and Saudi with a relatively narrow exit to the Red Sea with a couple fair sized islands parked at the mouth, leaving two exit channels about a mile or two wide. Any ship going through a Israeli alternative canal will have to manage safe passage through 25-30 miles of what will likely be a very hostile eastern shore in the Gulf of Aquba
Then, once at the bottom of the Red Sea, they’ll encounter hell on earth in the pinch between Yemen and Djibouti. It’s tough today but you’ve got to believe the Iranian backed Houthi’s are going to be extra interested in every ship that passed through the alternate canal. It’ll be a 15 mile wide kill zone for any Israeli canal ship.
I’m sure there are some dreamers who put this stuff on paper but that’s all it is - a dream. I won’t say it’ll never happen but I doubt our grandchildren will live to see it come to fruition.
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