# The Big Bloc

> The famous privately owned land inside the old airport: 1,892 owners, rights table approved September 2025.

Canonical: https://shavnu.com/glossary/the-big-bloc

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HaGush HaGadol is a historic block of private parcels that sat inside the airport fence, owned by families for generations. A court finished the rights table for 1,892 owners in September 2025. Eshkol lot 102 is held for it, under court-appointed managers. Lots 105 and 108 are separate private land, held by other owner groups who are building on their own account. None of the three were sold by the Israel Land Authority.

## Where this comes up

- [Fifty Years Of Plans: What Was Proposed For Sde Dov Before TA/4444](https://shavnu.com/blog/before-ta-4444.md): From Patrick Geddes's 1925 coastal vision through outline plan TA/3700, cabinet decisions, court dates, and a mayor's counter-proposal: the schemes that preceded the validated district plan, and what the record does not yet say.
- [The Big Bloc: 1,892 Owners, Fifty Years, One Court Ruling](https://shavnu.com/blog/big-bloc-land-saga.md): Inside Sde Dov, a historic block of private parcels sat under the runway for generations. A court finished the rights table in September 2025. Here is what that means for Eshkol lot 102, how it differs from the district's other private lots, and what a buyer comparing private land to a RAMI tender plot should check.
- [What Israel Does With Military Land](https://shavnu.com/blog/military-land-precedents.md): More than ninety percent of Israel's land is publicly held. When a defense site becomes housing, the Israel Land Authority's tender system decides who builds. Sde Dov is one documented instance of that pattern, not a private sale.
- [How To Read An Israeli Land Tender](https://shavnu.com/blog/reading-a-tender-document.md): RAMI sells state land through sealed-bid auctions. The tender publication is the primary document behind every migrash price on the Sde Dov field. Here is what each part means, using the district's real tender history as the worked example.
- [Sea, Price And Commute: Sde Dov Against Herzliya Pituach](https://shavnu.com/blog/sde-dov-vs-herzliya-pituach.md): Both names sit on the Mediterranean north of central Tel Aviv. One is a presale leasehold district inside the city; the other is an established freehold villa enclave. The choice is typology, not a price ranking.
- [Sde Dov And Park Tzameret: Two Tel Aviv Skylines](https://shavnu.com/blog/sde-dov-vs-park-tzameret.md): Both names carry luxury towers and Mediterranean light. Recent reporting puts them in the same price band per square metre. The contrast is scale, setting, and what the market already concluded about location.


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Source: https://shavnu.com/glossary/the-big-bloc 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.