INFRASTRUCTURE
Green light for Tel Aviv's fifth water line, paving the way to occupying Sde Dov
The fifth water line into Tel Aviv is approved, a utility the district needs before residents can move in.
Sde Dov, as it happens
Translated summaries of Hebrew and English coverage, each linking out to the original source.
August 2026
ENVIRONMENT
Tel Aviv luxury housing project faces contamination battle after buyer sues developer
An option-holder sues Gindi Holdings for a refund of about ₪500K after PFAS contamination findings at Sde Dov.
July 2026
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Protection Ministry demands halt to infrastructure works in Sde Dov
The ministry asks for infrastructure work to stop while contamination and soil treatment are handled.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Green Line works progress: when will the train reach Sde Dov?
A municipal update on the Green Line, including a southern-section timetable presented by Mayor Huldai. Four stations will serve the district.
June 2026
PLANNING
Chussidman family to donate ₪200M for the Reut Hospital campus
The Chussidman family foundation pledges ₪200M toward Reut Rehabilitation Hospital's new campus, relocating from Yad Eliyahu.
PLANNING
Plans approved for 771 more apartments in the Central complex (incl. lot 2226)
The local committee approves plans for 771 additional Central-complex homes, including lot 2226.
MARKET
The financial reports reveal: apartment sales in Sde Dov have stalled
Q1 filings show the sales pace collapsing. Israel Canada had sold about 300 units at an average of ₪85,700 per sqm.
May 2026
MARKET
Sde Dov: almost half the apartments Dimri sold were bought by the controlling shareholder
Calcalist reports that nearly half of Dimri's Sde Dov apartment sales were to the controlling shareholder.
PLANNING
437 apartments and a 45-story tower: Dan Real Estate plan approved for lot 2208
Dan Real Estate's design plan for Central lot 2208 is approved: 437 units and a 45-story tower mixing homes, employment, and commerce.
TENDERS
A tender for 200 apartments in Sde Dov has been postponed 12 times — and it's not the only one
A 217-unit Central-district tender has been postponed 12 times since September 2024; leftover tenders remain stuck.
April 2026
CONSTRUCTION
Avisror's ASHIRA got its building permit
Ice reports the full building permit for ASHIRA on lot 101. The plot had tested clean of contamination.
MARKET
Dimri's price per sqm in Sde Dov is the highest
Trade press says Dimri is recording the highest price per square metre of any Sde Dov project then on sale.
ENVIRONMENT
Sde Dov land contamination discovery could delay construction
Globes English follows the PFAS findings and the risk that parts of the ~16,000-unit build-out slip.
March 2026
ENVIRONMENT
Turnaround on soil contamination after a dramatic update of threshold values
Updated national PFAS thresholds change how findings on the old airfield are read, a potential break in the contamination saga.
PLANNING
Design plan approved for Hagag Group's FIRST (lot 2270)
The architectural design plan for FIRST, the ODA-designed 45-story sea-line tower, is approved.
February 2026
MARKET
What are apartment prices in Israel's most expensive neighborhood?
Calcalist surveys asking and closed prices in Sde Dov, by then routinely described as Israel's most expensive new neighborhood.
PLANNING
Africa Israel and Azrieli design plans approved (incl. Palace Sde Dov senior living)
Design plans for Africa Israel and Azrieli clear the committee, including Azrieli's Palace Sde Dov senior-living project.
ENVIRONMENT
The Sde Dov contamination: 'a developer with clean land will use it as a competitive advantage'
After the PFAS announcement, Ynet reports that plots which tested clean are already being framed as a sales edge.
ENVIRONMENT
Toxic compounds found at site slated for luxury neighborhood in north Tel Aviv
Ynetnews English report on PFAS — forever chemicals from firefighting foam — found on the former Sde Dov airfield.
ENVIRONMENT
Will Sde Dov construction be delayed? After land sold for billions, contamination found
TheMarker covers the same PFAS disclosure and the tension between already-sold land and a possible slowdown in construction.
ENVIRONMENT
Will TA's giant neighborhood be delayed? Contamination findings in Sde Dov soil
Nadlan Center asks whether PFAS in the soil will delay the ~16,000-home district after land sold for billions.
January 2026
MARKET
Three developers launch Zohi Tel Aviv (Levinshtein, Metropolis/Allied, Mivne)
The 230-unit low-rise project on Eshkol lot 110 goes to market, the district's deliberately shorter skyline.
PLANNING
A year after land marketing: six Sde Dov plots approach building permits
Globes reports fast-tracked design-plan approvals that put six Center and North plots close to building permits.
CONSTRUCTION
Mizrahi-Tefahot and First International to finance Ashira (₪2.5B+)
Two banks commit more than ₪2.5B to finance construction of Avisror's ASHIRA on lot 101.
CONSTRUCTION
Sde Dov: two projects worth NIS 1.8B go to execution
Mako reports Rainbow moving to execution with Ashtrom as contractor, works from January 2026, the project about 70% pre-sold.
December 2025
MARKET
From ₪3.75M: Dimri begins marketing Dimri Yama TLV
Official launch of 458 units on lot 107, two-room apartments from ₪3.75M, after a ₪1.1B land purchase from Hanan Mor.
November 2025
MARKET
Lior Suchard buys an 18th-floor apartment in UTOPIA (~88 sqm)
Mentalist Lior Suchard buys an 18th-floor home of about 88 sqm in Nahmias Group's UTOPIA on lot 103.
October 2025
CONSTRUCTION
Nahmias Group starts construction of UTOPIA (lot 103, 337 units)
Works begin on 337 apartments — a 34-story tower, a 15-story tower, and two seven-story buildings.
September 2025
PLANNING
Historic milestone: court settles division of private lands — rights table approved for 1,892 owners of the Big Bloc
A court finishes the rights table for 1,892 private owners of HaGush HaGadol, the privately owned land inside the old airport.
August 2025
MARKET
Israel Canada's average Sde Dov apartment price hit NIS 11M in Q2
Rainbow's average closed deal reaches ₪11M, a record for the project, with 234 units sold for ₪2B.
July 2025
MARKET
Dimri started a quiet sale in Sde Dov — this is the price
Ice reports Dimri selling quietly on lot 107 months before the official December launch from ₪3.75M.
June 2025
MARKET
Gindi announced apartment sales in Sde Dov at NIS 49K/sqm
GINDI VOGUE lists from ₪49,000 per sqm, tens of percent below the district average; around 700 apartments sell within weeks.
March 2025
TENDERS
Results published for the giant tender to build ~2,800 apartments in Sde Dov
Nadlan Center publishes the North-tender winner table, including Dimri, Melisron/Aviv, Tashluz, Mediterranean Towers, and Shikun & Binui + Shapir.
TENDERS
Sde Dov: Tshuva, Melisron and others bought plots for 2,750 apartments for NIS 4.6B
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.
TENDERS
Which company will build 966 rental apartments in Sde Dov?
Prashkovsky, bidding with Dira LeHaskir, wins both long-term-rental tenders — 966 apartments.
February 2025
TENDERS
~NIS 6B: the Sde Dov billion-shekel tenders were cut almost in half
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.
November 2024
CONSTRUCTION
"A city will rise here": first cornerstone laid (Ashira)
Avisror lays the first cornerstone in the district on Eshkol lot 101.
September 2024
TENDERS
Sde Dov district: over 7,000 new apartments go to marketing
Ynet covers the same mega-tender: more than 7,000 apartments in the Center and North complexes go to market.
TENDERS
ILA issues tender for over 7,000 Sde Dov homes
The Israel Land Authority opens ten tenders for 7,159 units in the Center and North plans, a wave valued at about ₪25B.
TENDERS
Worth ~NIS 25B: land for 7,100 apartments in Sde Dov to be marketed
TheMarker puts a ~₪25B headline value on the land about to be auctioned for some 7,100 homes.
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