Translated summaries of Hebrew and English coverage, each linking out to the original source.
Maariv: the Israel Electric Corporation has connected a new underground substation to the grid at a cost of about ₪217 million, a project Maariv ties to the construction coming in the Sde Dov district. It has two 75 MW transformers, sits about 20 metres underground, took about four years to build, and will serve Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv University and the rest of north Tel Aviv.
Rova Sde Dov: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa planning subcommittee approved the architectural design plan for North-complex lot 3205, promoted by Aviv-Melisron as "Aviv in Sde Dov". The plan has 320 homes, about 3,800 sqm of employment space and about 1,000 sqm of commerce on a lot of about 6 dunams, with a 40-storey tower. Miloslavsky Architects prepared the plan.
Rova Sde Dov: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa local planning committee approved the design plan for Fuel Tank Park at the Yarkon mouth and recommended it to the district committee and the coastal environment committee. The historic IEC tanks across the Yarkon had already become a night-lit landmark; the winning conversion plan was selected in May 2026.
Globes: seven projects are now marketing in the district, with first occupancy still expected in 2029. RAINBOW sold 7 homes in the first half of 2026, 3 of them in the second quarter, against 59 in all of 2025 and 99 in 2024, and DIMRI YAMA had sold about 41 of its 458 homes. Hagag's sales and marketing costs rose to ₪10.8 million in the half, from ₪4.2 million a year earlier.
Ynet: the Herzliya Magistrates Court ruled the compound lottery must not proceed for now, on the concern that differences in contamination, clean-up cost and delay between compounds would skew their values and divide rights worth billions of shekels unevenly. Globes: Adam Teva V'Din opposes striking the contamination petition despite the High Court's recommendation.
Globes: contamination fears continue to hold up the division of rights among about 1,700 Big Bloc landowners. After the assessor found no new information justifying a change to how value is split between compounds, rights holders argue the absence of contamination results is precisely why the lottery cannot yet be held.
Rova Sde Dov: Gindi Holdings said it signed with REIT 1 to sell all of the commerce and employment space in VOGUE in Central Sde Dov for about ₪400 million. The package is about 5,000 sqm of commerce, about 7,400 sqm of employment, and 127 attached parking spaces, the project's entire income-producing component.
Globes: testing the state told the court in May would take 60 to 90 days is still not finished, and even the sampling plans are still awaiting Environment Ministry approval. The Big Bloc land managers, who asked in May for the compound lottery to be delayed, now ask the court to let it go ahead rather than wait months more.
Calcalist: YAMA sold none in Q2 (about 40 of 458 units, ~8%). Globes: remaining inventory cut from ₪67,000 to ₪62,000 per sqm, with PFAS soil removal underway under the Environment Ministry.
The fifth water line into Tel Aviv is approved, a utility the district needs before residents can move in.
Globes: the Israel Land Authority told the court its contamination tests are progressing but has published no findings or mapping, so the division of the Big Bloc land is still stuck. Rights holders say the uncertainty is hurting deals. Separately, apartment buyers are seeking to cancel option agreements and recover about ₪1.55 million, saying they were not told about the contamination when they signed.
The Herzliya court had already moved the private-owners lottery from late June to 11 August. Globes: ILA's update still has no plot-by-plot pollution map, sampling plans await Environment Ministry approval, and the draw is delayed again.
Construction started on the Levi Eshkol bridge over Rokach Boulevard, a pedestrian and cycle crossing that gives north-west Tel Aviv a direct route into Yarkon Park and its path network. It is expected to serve Kochav HaTzafon, Tochnit Lamed, Nofei Yam and Ramat Aviv HaHadasha.
An option-holder sues Gindi Holdings for a refund of about ₪500K after PFAS contamination findings at Sde Dov.
Rova Sde Dov: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa planning subcommittee conditionally approved the design and development plan for lot 303 in the Eshkol complex, two nine-storey buildings for employment and commerce on Ibn Gvirol Street, beside the linear park and near the future Zahara Levitov light-rail station. Approval depends on review by the city engineer.
ice: planning is advancing for Nofei Yam Tzafon (plan TA/5091), about 1,500 homes on land just north of the Sde Dov district between Levi Eshkol, Propes and Ibn Gvirol streets. The plan area has been cut from about 190 to about 150 dunams to make room for more public space, about a quarter is planned for commerce, it includes affordable housing, and a deposit-stage hearing is expected around July 2027.
Globes: apartment buyers in district projects are adding cancellation clauses to purchase contracts because of the PFAS findings. The Environment Ministry told Globes that all nine plots with PFAS indications are earmarked for housing and that sampling results will be published once the investigation reports are approved. Globes names Dimri, Shikun & Binui, Gindi Holdings, Mivne and Prashkovsky among the companies involved; some developers say the ministry has already confirmed that their land is clean.
Globes: the Environment Ministry named the nine plots where PFAS indications were found: 103, 105, 106, 107, 301, 303, 2206, 2207 and 2102. Globes matched them to developers, among them lot 103 (Nahmias, UTOPIA), lot 107 (Y.H. Dimri, DIMRI YAMA), lot 2206 (Gindi Holdings), lot 106 (Shikun & Binui), lots 2207 and 2102 (Prashkovsky) and lot 301 (Hadas Capital). The ministry said results will be published once the investigation reports are approved.
The ministry asks for infrastructure work to stop while contamination and soil treatment are handled.
Rova Sde Dov: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa planning subcommittee approved the design and development plans for lots 3101, 3105 and 3106, on the district's westernmost line beside the coastal park. Together they have 332 homes plus commerce, internal courtyards, public passages and shared facilities for residents. The report does not name the developers.
A municipal update on the Green Line, including a southern-section timetable presented by Mayor Huldai. Four stations will serve the district.
Globes: a letter from the Water Authority's director-general to the Israel Land Authority lists other sites where similar PFAS contamination has been found or is suspected, including Sirkin Camp in Petah Tikva, the Kiryat Chaim terminal, the Glilot area, former and current airfields, fuel farms and power stations. The authority says it has mapped PFAS at risk sites systematically since it analysed Sde Dov groundwater in 2022.
Rova Sde Dov: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa planning subcommittee approved the design plan for lot 2207 in the centre of the district, a long-term rental project by Prashkovsky Meniv on Ibn Gvirol, Einstein and Batya Lishansky streets. It has 410 rental homes, 205 of them at controlled rents.
The Chussidman family foundation pledges ₪200M toward Reut Rehabilitation Hospital's new campus, relocating from Yad Eliyahu.
Tel Aviv's local committee approves Israel Brothers' Central lot 2103: 424 homes (348 in two towers, 76 in 5- and 8-story fabric buildings), about 1,766 sqm of retail, architect Moshe Tzur.
Ynet: Hagag Group's first-quarter 2026 report shows FIRST sold 59 homes in the five months to the report, for about ₪426 million, taking it to 191 of its 350 homes, 55% of the project, for more than ₪1.6 billion in under a year of marketing.
The local committee approves plans for 771 additional Central-complex homes, including lot 2226.
Q1 filings show the sales pace collapsing. Israel Canada had sold about 300 units at an average of ₪85,700 per sqm.
Globes: Israel Canada sold 86 apartments across the company in the first quarter of 2026, up from 76, but only 4 at RAINBOW, for about ₪22 million. RAINBOW's average price since launch reached ₪81,782 per sqm at the end of the quarter, against ₪81,704 at the end of 2025 and ₪80,493 at the end of 2024.
Calcalist reports that nearly half of Dimri's Sde Dov apartment sales were to the controlling shareholder.
Ynet: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa local committee approved the design plan for SEVEN SEAS by Electra Residence and Dan Real Estate on Central lot 2208: 437 homes in towers of 45 and 20 storeys, with about 3,500 sqm of employment space and 2,200 sqm of commerce.
A 217-unit Central-district tender has been postponed 12 times since September 2024; leftover tenders remain stuck.
Globes: the Herzliya Magistrates Court postponed the Big Bloc compound lottery, which was due the following month, to 11 August 2026, after the land managers asked for time to learn the extent of the PFAS contamination and who pays for the clean-up. The court set the same date for the Israel Land Authority to report on its testing, in line with the state's own estimate of 60 to 90 days.
Calcalist: responding in the Herzliya Magistrates Court, the Israel Land Authority and the Environment Ministry rejected the Big Bloc managers' position that the state must fully fund the PFAS investigation and clean-up, saying no formal, binding commitment on funding was ever made.
mako: Glanor Group won the joint Tel Aviv municipality and Mei Avivim tender to be main contractor for the phase A development works across the roughly 1,500-dunam site: roads, water, drainage, sewage, electricity and communications, preparing the lots already sold to developers for construction.
Ynet: Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman acknowledged a health risk from PFAS to bathers and to anyone in contact with groundwater at the beach near Sde Dov, while saying the area is not a drinking-water source. She wrote that the Water Authority first passed preliminary findings to the ministry at the end of 2022 and found PFAS in sea water near the beach in March 2024.
Ice reports the full building permit for ASHIRA on lot 101. The plot had tested clean of contamination.
Calcalist: the Big Bloc land managers asked the court to hold a hearing on the funding and timetable of the PFAS clean-up before the division of rights goes on, with every responsible state body present. Appraiser Roni Brill said she is already hearing from Sde Dov apartment and option buyers who want to cancel.
Trade press says Dimri is recording the highest price per square metre of any Sde Dov project then on sale.
Calcalist: Hagag Group's net profit rose 29% in 2025, largely on FIRST, while marketing costs nearly doubled and four sales were cancelled, three of them at Sde Dov. The company's own accounts put the lot 2270 land at ₪803 million plus ₪67 million of purchase tax, against the ₪756 million reported at the February 2025 tender.
Globes English follows the PFAS findings and the risk that parts of the ~16,000-unit build-out slip.
Updated national PFAS thresholds change how findings on the old airfield are read, a potential break in the contamination saga.
Shomrim: the Environment Ministry issued what read as a technical update to its PFAS soil thresholds, reviewed by the private firm Ecolog Engineering, which in effect made the exceedances found at Sde Dov compliant and weakened the precautionary policy. A source quoted by the outlet suspects the real purpose was to clear the district's land.
TheMarker: the Tel Aviv municipality has issued nine building permits in the Sde Dov district, two full permits and seven for shoring and excavation only. City engineer Udi Carmeli told the planning committee that soil had been removed from some plots where PFAS contamination was suspected.
The architectural design plan for FIRST, the ODA-designed 45-story sea-line tower, is approved.
Calcalist surveys asking and closed prices in Sde Dov, by then routinely described as Israel's most expensive new neighborhood.
Design plans for Africa Israel and Azrieli clear the committee, including Azrieli's Palace Sde Dov senior-living project.
After the PFAS announcement, Ynet reports that plots which tested clean are already being framed as a sales edge.
Ynetnews English report on PFAS, forever chemicals from firefighting foam, found on the former Sde Dov airfield.
TheMarker covers the same PFAS disclosure and the tension between already-sold land and a possible slowdown in construction.
Nadlan Center asks whether PFAS in the soil will delay the ~16,000-home district after land sold for billions.
The 230-unit low-rise project on Eshkol lot 110 goes to market, the district's deliberately shorter skyline.
Globes reports fast-tracked design-plan approvals that put six Center and North plots close to building permits.
Two banks commit more than ₪2.5B to finance construction of Avisror's ASHIRA on lot 101.
Mako reports Rainbow moving to execution with Ashtrom as contractor, works from January 2026, the project about 70% pre-sold.
Official launch of 458 units on lot 107, two-room apartments from ₪3.75M, after a ₪1.1B land purchase from Hanan Mor.
Mentalist Lior Suchard buys an 18th-floor home of about 88 sqm in Nahmias Group's UTOPIA on lot 103.
Works begin on 337 apartments: a 34-story tower, a 15-story tower, and two seven-story buildings.
A court finishes the rights table for 1,892 private owners of HaGush HaGadol, the privately owned land inside the old airport.
Rainbow's average closed deal reaches ₪11M, a record for the project, with 234 units sold for ₪2B.
Ice reports Dimri selling quietly on lot 107 months before the official December launch from ₪3.75M.
GINDI VOGUE lists from ₪49,000 per sqm, tens of percent below the district average; around 700 apartments sell within weeks.
Nadlan Center publishes the North-tender winner table, including Dimri, Melisron/Aviv, Tashluz, Mediterranean Towers, and Shikun & Binui + Shapir.
North-complex tenders close. Ynet and Nadlan Center put the wave at 2,744 units and ₪4.59B; Calcalist rounds it to 2,750 homes and ₪4.6B.
Prashkovsky, bidding with Dira LeHaskir, wins both long-term-rental tenders: 966 apartments.
Central-district winners are named for 4,191 units and about ₪6B: land about 40% cheaper than the 2021 record. Gindi, Hagag, Electra + Dan, Luzon Ronson, Israel Brothers, and A.A.I. Abu + Tomer Koko are on the list.
Avisror lays the first cornerstone in the district on Eshkol lot 101.
Ynet covers the same mega-tender: more than 7,000 apartments in the Center and North complexes go to market.
The Israel Land Authority opens ten tenders for 7,159 units in the Center and North plans, a wave valued at about ₪25B.
TheMarker puts a ~₪25B headline value on the land about to be auctioned for some 7,100 homes.
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