Heter bniya
A building permit: the city authorization to actually construct.
A heter bniya is the full building permit. Rainbow received the district's first excavation permit in March 2024 and a full permit in October 2025; ASHIRA received a full permit in March 2026. Without it, marketing can run but the tower cannot rise above the early-works stage.
Where this comes up
Pages on this site that use the term in context.
- When Do They Actually Hand Over The Keys?
Marketing timelines, permit stages, and statutory late-delivery rent are three different clocks. On Sde Dov they diverge by years. Here is how to read them without treating a brochure date as occupancy.
- How Tall, How Many: The Rules Behind The Skyline
Seven marketed projects, seven height profiles: how TA/4444's fabric-and-tower rules translate into floors and units on the registry, and why the skyline clusters the way it does.
- The Questions To Ask Before You Buy Off Plan Here
Israeli presale law gives buyers mandatory protections, but only if you verify them before you sign. A diligence checklist grounded in the Sale Law and the Sde Dov project registry.
- Schools, Clinics And Shops: Daily Life In A District Being Built
Public buildings and commerce designations reserve schools, clinics, and shops on the plan map. The gap between a reserved plot and an open school, and why services typically lag the first keys.
- A Third Of The Ground: What The Plan Reserves That Is Not Housing
Plan-lot land uses from residential and employment to parks, roads, and antiquities: what each TA/4444 designation permits in Israeli planning, and what the mix tells a buyer about life beyond the tower lobby.
- Buying in Sde Dov from Abroad: The Honest Playbook
Foreigners can buy here, but the tax code, payment schedule, and permit pipeline work differently than in most overseas markets. What the research actually supports.