Israel Land Use - What Any Plot May Be Built For

Give it an Israeli address and get the official land-use designation for that spot: residential, commercial, employment, open space, road, public buildings and the rest, straight from the national planning map. Every area comes with the plan that sets it, that plan's status, the area in square metres and map coordinates.

This is the first question in any Israeli property decision, and the answer is normally buried in a map viewer.

The field that matters

Every row carries coversSearchPoint: true when that designation actually applies at the address you asked about, false when it is merely nearby. Large designations such as national plans can stretch for kilometres, so "near your address" and "at your address" are very different answers, and this tells them apart.

What you get

Field	Example
landUse, landUseCode	"מגורים ג'" (residential), 680
coversSearchPoint	true - this is the designation at your address
planNumber, planName	"416-0447284", the plan's Hebrew name
planningStatus	"אישור" (approved), "בבדיקה תכנונית" (under review)
areaSqm, registeredAreaDunam, perimeterMeters	14831147.32, 0, 980.39
latitude, longitude	32.1893702, 34.8666297
geometryRings	The full polygon outline, when you ask for it
distanceMeters	Distance from your address to the area's centre
lastUpdated	2018-12-04

Input

Field	What it does
addresses	Hebrew addresses or place names, e.g. ["אחוזה 100 רעננה"]. Each is located on the map.
radiusMeters	How far around each address to collect areas. 300 covers a block, 1000 a neighbourhood.
planNumbers	Every area a given plan defines, e.g. ["302-0072793"]. Plan numbers come from our Israel Zoning Plans Actor.
boundingBox	Sweep a rectangle: {"minLat":32.17,"minLng":34.86,"maxLat":32.19,"maxLng":34.88}.
landUseContains	Keep only designations containing this Hebrew text, e.g. "מגורים" for residential.
includeGeometry	Adds the full polygon outline for mapping software. Centre coordinates are always returned.
maxItems	Optional cost cap. Blank returns everything that matches.

Example: what applies at one address

{ "addresses": ["אחוזה 100 רעננה"], "radiusMeters": 300 }

Example: every residential area in a neighbourhood

{ "addresses": ["דיזנגוף 50 תל אביב"], "radiusMeters": 1000, "landUseContains": "מגורים" }

How it works

Addresses are located through the government map service, then the national land-use layer is queried for everything intersecting the radius, 1,000 rows at a time until the area is exhausted. Results are de-duplicated across all your searches and pushed as they arrive, so a stopped run keeps what it already collected. The polygon is used to compute each area's centre point and to test whether it contains your address.

Limits, stated honestly

• A radius is a circle, not a municipal boundary. Asking for a city name returns what surrounds that point, not everything inside the city limits.
• Designations are returned in Hebrew exactly as the planning authority publishes them, because that is the legally meaningful wording.
• An address that cannot be located fails the run rather than quietly returning nothing.
• registeredAreaDunam is the registered area in dunam as published, and is 0 when the plan states none. areaSqm is the computed polygon area and is always present.
• Land use tells you what a plan permits. It is not a building permit, and it does not tell you what is built there today.

Related

• Israel Zoning Plans - the plans behind these designations, with their official documents.
• Israel Land Tenders - state land auctions, including winning bids.
• Israel Sold Property Prices - recorded sale prices for the same areas.
• Israel Building Permits - what has actually been permitted and built there, as opposed to what the plan allows.