About Shavnu
Shavnu is an independent, English-language guide to Sde Dov, the former Tel Aviv city airport becoming a 16,000-home coastal district. We tell the district's story, track every project and developer, translate the Hebrew press, and publish the market data behind it all. We are an independent publisher: we do not sell apartments, and no developer pays for ranking or coverage.
Methodology
One rule governs the site: every public figure carries a source, and unknown stays unknown. Project pages show only facts we can cite, permits with dates, tender results with prices, published starting prices. Where a developer has not published a number, we say so rather than estimate. News items are translated summaries that always link the original article. Negative facts, contamination findings, delays, slowdowns, are covered with the same weight as launches.
Our data sources
Recorded sold-deal prices by land block and parcel, the sold transactions shown in the Data Terminal.
Official parcel polygons (layer 524) and construction-site records with permit status (layers 499/772).
Satellite scene metadata used to date construction progress. Imagery metadata only, never invented interpretation.
Globes, Calcalist, Ynet, TheMarker, Nadlan Center, ice.co.il and others, every news item we publish links its original source.
Project specifications, watercolour representations, and district history. Every representation names the developer whose rendering it was painted from.
Plan TA/4444 and district design plans via the municipality and Israel Land Authority publications.
Update frequency
Sold-deal, parcel, and construction data is refreshed from the official sources periodically, the terminal shows the latest recorded deal date, so you can always see how fresh the data is. News is reviewed and added as the district makes it. Project pages are updated when permits, prices, or milestones change. Long-form Journal pieces carry their publication date and are corrected in place when facts move.
About the photography
Photographs on this site are colour-graded to a single house look, and the 1938 archive plate is restored and colourised. No building, crane, road or feature is ever added, removed or altered: the treatment changes light and colour, never the facts of what stands on the ground. Plans and maps are published untouched, credited to their owners. Project images are different, and we say so on every one: they are watercolours we paint from the developer's own rendering, labelled as representations. Nothing here is a photograph of a finished building, because at Sde Dov almost nothing is finished. A watercolour carries the character of a scheme and makes no claim about its final appearance, materials or dimensions; the sale contract and the technical specification do that, and they govern. Historic stills, press photographs, and film on The Story name the photographer or publication on the plate (Government Press Office, PikiWiki, Wikimedia Commons, Times of Israel, Globes, Go Tel Aviv, Cohen-Wend, YouTube channels). We keep their frames so the record is visible; the credit is the license.
Corrections
If any figure, date, or claim on this site is wrong, tell us through the contact form and include the page and the correct source. Verified errors are corrected on the page itself. We would rather carry a correction than an error.
What we are not
Shavnu is not a licensed real-estate broker, law firm, or tax adviser, and nothing on this site is investment, legal, or tax advice. Buying property in Israel calls for your own professional team; our guides explain the landscape so you can brief that team well.