# Four Stations to the Sea: What the Green Line Means for Sde Dov > The Green Line light rail crosses Sde Dov on the Ibn Gvirol and Gordon axis with four stations. Southern section around late 2028, full service around December 2030. Here is the spine, the Yarkon bridge, and what station proximity actually means for each complex. Canonical: https://shavnu.com/blog/green-line-light-rail --- **Published:** 2026-08-20 **Category:** planning **Reading time:** 8 minutes **Projects covered:** ZOHI Tel Aviv, FIRST by Hagag, GINDI VOGUE, ASHIRA, RAINBOW Tel Aviv, UTOPIA, DIMRI YAMA TLV **Developers covered:** Levinshtein Group, Metropolis (Allied Real Estate), Mivne Group, Hagag Group, Gindi Holdings ## A Rail Line Drawn Before the Towers Plan TA/4444 validated in March 2020 with about 16,000 homes, two kilometres of beach, and a transit spine already on the map. HaKav HaYarok (הקו הירוק, the Green Line) is NTA's (נת"ע, the national transit authority) Tel Aviv light-rail line. It crosses the Sde Dov district along the Ibn Gvirol and Gordon axis, the same corridor that will carry tens of thousands of residents to the shore. the masterplan graphics show four stations serving the district: Propes (פרופס), Nofei Yam (נופי ים), Einstein (איינשטיין), and Zahara Levitov (זהרה לביטוב). The last honours pioneering pilot Zahara Levitov; a February 2026 article on the site traced how her name will mark both a boulevard and a station. The line is not a future amenity bolted onto finished towers. NTA is building track while excavators work on Eshkol and design plans multiply in Central and North. For a buyer signing a 2026 contract with first occupancy targeted around 2029, the rail timetable and the building timetable overlap by design. _TA/4444 and station names: the district plan and glossary. Zahara Levitov: district records, 25 Feb 2026._ ## The Four Stations from South to North Propes sits at the district's southern entry, near the Reading power station (רדינג) edge and the connection toward central Tel Aviv. Nofei Yam ("sea views") anchors the western residential blocks that tie toward the coast and the Nofei Yam neighbourhood name already used in local planning. Einstein station follows Einstein Street, which as of April 2026 is "on its way to becoming a main urban street" between Ramat Aviv and Sde Dov. Zahara Levitov is the northern station on the district map, named for the aviator commemorated across the masterplan. Together the four stops turn a 1,500-dunam former runway into a strip you can traverse by tram without treating Ibn Gvirol as a highway barrier. February 2023 coverage framed the Green Line as the link that would connect Sde Dov to Gush Dan, the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area. That is the strategic claim: not a neighbourhood shuttle, but a spine from the sea northward into the city and outward to the Dan region bus and rail network. **Green Line stations in Sde Dov and documented delivery dates** | Station | Hebrew name | Role on the plan | Service timing (documented) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Propes | פרופס | Southern district entry, toward Reading and central TA | Southern section ~late 2028 | | Nofei Yam | נופי ים | Western blocks, coastal connection | Southern section ~late 2028 | | Einstein | איינשטיין | Einstein Street corridor, Ramat Aviv link | Full line ~December 2030 | | Zahara Levitov | זהרה לביטוב | Northern district edge, aviation pioneer namesake | Full line ~December 2030 | _Station names: district records glossary and about-page map. Timetable: district records about page and Jul 2026 Green Line article._ ## Crossing the Yarkon Light rail cannot reach the sea without crossing the Yarkon River. On 27 March 2024, district records show progress on what it called Tel Aviv's longest bridge: the Green Line's Yarkon crossing. The piece treated the structure as a city-scale engineering milestone, not a neighbourhood footnote. June 2025 brought another progress update on works at the district's entry and exit points along the line. July 2026 added a municipal timetable presented by Mayor Ron Huldai, according to the site's 8 July 2026 article on Green Line works. Southern section service is expected around late 2028; full line service around December 2030. Do not confuse the light-rail Yarkon bridge with the separate Eshkol-to-Yarkon Park pedestrian bridge whose construction began in August 2026. Both connect the district to the river. One carries trams on the Ibn Gvirol corridor. The other is a park link for pedestrians and cyclists south of the field. _Yarkon bridge: district records, 27 Mar 2024. Jun 2025 and Jul 2026 progress: the district news archive. Eshkol-Yarkon Park bridge: district records, 5 Aug 2026._ ## Pedestrian Links Already Open Rail passengers will not be the first people to cross new bridges in this corner of Tel Aviv. The Einstein pedestrian and bicycle bridge, linking New Lamed to Nofei Yam, opened in November 2023, district records reported. A western span had been lifted into place in May 2023. Those structures prefigure how the district stitches neighbourhoods together before the tram arrives. The coastal park promenade opened in September 2023, running from Herzliya toward Bat Yam along two kilometres of shore at Sde Dov. It won the Karavan Prize for landscape architecture in September 2025. Walking infrastructure is already delivering value while NTA finishes the tracks. First occupancy in the district is targeted around 2029 on the masterplan arc. Southern Green Line service around late 2028 means the earliest residents may move in as the first trams start testing on the southern section. Full December 2030 service arrives when Central and North towers that won 2025 tenders are still climbing. _Einstein bridge: district records, 27 Nov 2023 and 30 May 2023. Coastal promenade: district records, 13 Sep 2023. Karavan Prize: 11 Sep 2025._ ## July 2026: Where the Timetable Stands The 8 July 2026 article on district records asked when the train would reach Sde Dov and reported that works are advancing. Mayor Huldai presented a southern-section timetable. Four stations will serve the district. The piece sits in a news month that also saw environmental demands to halt some infrastructure works over soil contamination, a reminder that transit and remediation share the same ground. Galnur Binui and Olitzki Infrastructure split Central and North civil works under municipal tender 55/2025 in December 2025, per district records. Street grids, utilities, and track beds are being built in parallel across complexes. The Green Line is one layer in a stack that includes a fifth water line approved in August 2026 and pneumatic waste systems approved in July 2025. For buyers, the practical question is not whether the line is on the map. It has been on every masterplan graphic since validation. The question is whether your building will be occupied before or after the southern section opens, and whether your walk to the platform is along a finished street or a construction zone. _Jul 2026 Green Line article: district records, 8 Jul 2026. Infrastructure tender: district records, 2 Dec 2025. Fifth water line: district records, 16 Aug 2026._ ## Transit Proximity and Apartment Value The research corpus for Sde Dov does not publish a verified Israeli premium for light-rail proximity in this district. No audited study in the source files quantifies how many shekels per square metre a station adds in Eshkol versus Central. Treat any broker claim of a fixed percentage as marketing until you see a cited transaction study. What the sources do show is behavioural. Developers market the line explicitly. ZOHI on lot 110 is documented as near the Ibn Gvirol extension and light-rail stations. FIRST by Hagag on Central lot 2270 is documented as near the Green Line on the first sea line. GINDI VOGUE is about 250 metres from the seafront in the Central complex. Proximity is a sales argument because buyers already treat it as one. Internationally, peer cities often price walking distance to fixed-rail stations at a premium once service is reliable. That pattern is widely reported in urban economics literature but is not duplicated here with Sde Dov-specific numbers. Use it as a hypothesis, not a quote. The honest local evidence is in marketing materials, plan maps, and the July 2026 timetable: the line is coming on a dated schedule, and projects nearest the corridor say so in their registry entries. _ZOHI station proximity: lots.ts eshkol-110. FIRST Green Line: projects.ts and lots.ts central-2270. Gindi distance: projects.ts._ ## Walking-Distance Reality by Complex Without publishing invented minute counts, the typed registry lets you rank projects by how directly they claim station access. ZOHI on southern Eshkol lot 110 is the clearest RAMI-era example: the lot note names the Ibn Gvirol extension and light-rail stations together. UTOPIA on lot 103 sits near the S.Y. Agnon and Levi Eshkol junction, closer to the southern Propes and Nofei Yam end of the map than to Zahara Levitov. ASHIRA (lot 101), RAINBOW (lot 111), and DIMRI YAMA (lot 107) occupy central Eshkol blocks between the coast and Einstein Street. They benefit from district-wide walkability plans (madrachot and shvilei ofanayim, sidewalks and bike paths, are explicit planning goals per district records's June 2024 coverage) even where the registry does not tag a specific station distance. FIRST on lot 2270 in the Central complex is the flagship Green Line marketing case: first line to the sea, near the corridor, with a 45-story tower approved in March 2026. Central winners from the February 2025 tender wave will sell on sea and skyline views; check each design plan against the published station map to see whether Einstein or Zahara Levitov is the nearer stop. The map is the honest answer. Brochure adjectives are not. > The station map is the honest answer to walking distance. Brochure adjectives are not. _Walkability planning: district records, 13 Jun 2024. Complex locations: lots.ts and projects.ts._ --- Source: https://shavnu.com/blog/green-line-light-rail on Shavnu, an independent English guide to the Sde Dov district in Tel Aviv. Figures come from the public record: Israel Tax Authority transaction reports, Tel Aviv GIS, tender results and the Hebrew press.