Israel Building Permits (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

Building permits and permit requests straight from the municipal planning system: permit number and date, address, housing units, TAMA 38 urban-renewal flags, request type, construction start, occupancy date, and a link to the official document.

Why this is hard to get anywhere else

Israel has no national building-permit feed. The Planning Administration's licensing system is not public, and the national open-data portal carries no permit dataset. Permits exist only inside each municipality's own GIS, in Hebrew, behind a slow and rate-limited server. This Actor does that work for you and returns clean, typed, English-keyed rows.

Coverage today is Tel Aviv-Yafo, which publishes the richest permit layer in the country: 10,500+ permits and requests, of which about 2,200 are TAMA 38.

Use cases

• Urban-renewal developers finding every TAMA 38 project on a street, with unit counts and how far each has progressed
• Real-estate agents spotting buildings about to be renewed before they are marketed
• Appraisers checking what was approved on a parcel, the relief granted, and the occupancy date
• Investors tracking permit volume and added housing units by area over time
• Proptech products joining permits to listings and sold prices by address

Input

Field	Type	Description
addresses	array	Hebrew addresses in Tel Aviv, each geocoded then searched within the radius. Leave empty to sweep the whole city
radiusMeters	integer	How far around each address to search. Default 300
onlyTama38	boolean	Only TAMA 38 urban-renewal permits
permitFrom / permitTo	string	Permit granted between these dates (YYYY-MM-DD)
minHousingUnits	integer	Only permits adding at least this many units
requestTypeContains	string	Hebrew match on request type, e.g. תוספת, שימוש חורג
addressContains	string	Hebrew street name, searched city-wide with no geocoding
bbox	string	Search a rectangle: minLng,minLat,maxLng,maxLat
includeBuildingStatus	boolean	Adds preservation-list and dangerous-building status for each permit's parcel. Default false
includeGeometry	boolean	Add latitude/longitude for each permit. Default true
maxItems	integer	Optional cost cap. Blank returns every match

Example input

{ "addresses": ["רוטשילד 15 תל אביב"], "radiusMeters": 600, "onlyTama38": true }

Output

Each row is one permit or permit request. isPermitGranted tells the two apart: a request still in the pipeline has no permit number or date, and must not be read as an approval.

{
  "city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo",
  "isPermitGranted": true,
  "permitNumber": 20200460,
  "permitDate": "2020-09-07",
  "addresses": "שדרות נורדאו 43, יחזקאל 1",
  "housingUnits": 2,
  "isTama38": false,
  "requestType": "שינויים הארכת תוקף החלטה",
  "constructionStartDate": null,
  "documentUrl": "https://archive-binyan.tel-aviv.gov.il/pages/results.aspx?owstikid=01970430",
  "latitude": 32.09211,
  "longitude": 34.77843
}

Building status (includeBuildingStatus)

Two facts a developer needs before touching a building, joined from the city's own layers by parcel geometry:

• isPreservationListed - the parcel is on the municipal preservation list, which constrains what may be built (2,861 listed areas city-wide)
• isDangerousBuilding + dangerousBuildingOrder - a dangerous-building order is on the parcel, often a prime urban-renewal candidate (610 orders city-wide)

Both are null when you leave the toggle off, meaning "not checked" rather than "clear". A parcel is never reported as safe on the strength of a lookup that never ran.

Amenity-style flags are tri-state: true, false, or null when the municipality does not say. They are never silently reported as false.

How it works

Queries the city's ArcGIS permit layer directly, paging to completion with no hidden caps. The server is slow and refuses datacenter IPs after a burst, so each retry alternates between a direct connection and an Israeli residential proxy, whichever is answering. Results are written to the dataset as each page arrives, so a long run never loses what it already collected.

If an address falls outside the covered city, the run fails and says so rather than returning an empty result that looks like "no permits here". The geocoder is fuzzy and will happily resolve nonsense to a village 100 km away, so every point is checked against the city's real coverage first.

Limits

• Tel Aviv-Yafo only for now. Other cities are one config entry each and are being added.
• The city publishes both granted permits and open requests; use isPermitGranted to separate them.
• Hebrew free-text fields are returned as the municipality wrote them, untranslated.

Also Available

• Israel Zoning Plans - what may be built on a block: plan status, approval date, documents
• Israel Land Use - the official land-use designation for any address
• Israel Land Tenders - state land auctions with winning bidder and amount paid
• Israel Sold Property Prices - recorded sale prices for comps
• Yad2 Real Estate - live asking prices across Israel

Keywords

Israel building permits, TAMA 38 scraper, Tel Aviv building permits, היתרי בנייה, תמ"א 38, Israeli urban renewal data, Israel construction permits API, Tel Aviv planning data, Israeli real estate data