# PFAS

> "Forever chemicals" from firefighting foam, found in the old airport's soil and groundwater in 2026.

Canonical: https://shavnu.com/glossary/pfas

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**PFAS**

PFAS compounds are a legacy of decades of airport firefighting foam. The Environment Ministry and the Israel Land Authority announced groundwater findings in February 2026, opened a remediation fast track, and updated national thresholds in March 2026. Some lots tested cleaner than others; coverage has treated a clean plot as a sales advantage, and the first buyer lawsuit over contamination was filed in August 2026.

## Where this comes up

- [When Do They Actually Hand Over The Keys?](https://shavnu.com/blog/delivery-risk.md): 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.
- [From Tender Price To Asking Price: Where The Money Goes](https://shavnu.com/blog/from-tender-to-price.md): Winning a RAMI tender buys lease rights at a sealed bid. Selling an apartment recovers land, planning, construction, finance, levies, and margin. The public record shows some of those lines for Sde Dov and is silent on others.
- [Getting To Sde Dov: Every Way In And Out](https://shavnu.com/blog/getting-to-sde-dov.md): Light rail, roads, and coastal position on a cleared runway: how plan TA/4444 draws connections in, what the lot map reserves for approved and proposed roads, and what a transport promise is worth before it opens.
- [How Tall, How Many: The Rules Behind The Skyline](https://shavnu.com/blog/height-and-density.md): 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.
- [Not Just Apartments: The Hotels, the Marina, and Reading's Second Life](https://shavnu.com/blog/hotels-marina-reading.md): Plan TA/4444 budgets ~3,000 hotel rooms, a five-hotel ILA mega-tender, Eshkol's first two hotel lots, and a southern edge where Reading power station, fuel tanks, marina, and park are being rewritten at once.
- [Your Money Before The Building Exists](https://shavnu.com/blog/off-plan-protection.md): Two mandatory statutes govern presale apartments in Israel. They limit upfront exposure, require indexed guarantees, and compensate late delivery. For a remote buyer, the payment voucher booklet is the difference between protected cash and exposed cash.


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Source: https://shavnu.com/glossary/pfas 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.