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If you look at the source cited in the article, it's not a ban on 4 engine planes as a whole, it's a ban explicitly at Ben Gurion airport due to noise concerns, as it's surrounded by urban areas. The residents of those areas have been complaining for many years about noise.

There are other airports in Israel that can accommodate large, 4 engine aircraft in terms of runway. ETM and VDA come to mind but the former may not have the passenger handling capacity and the latter is now mostly closed to civilian aviation