On Thursday, September 24, 2026, developer Azorim began demolishing four old apartment blocks at 4 to 10 Yitzhak Elhanan Street, in the Kiryat Yearim neighborhood of west Ramat Hasharon. Mayor Itzik Rochberger and Azorim chief executive Adi Dana attended the start of the works. Merkaz HaNadlan and Bizportal both carried the company and city announcement on September 27. The reported facts match, so this is one announcement, not two separate investigations.
108 flats out, 220 flats in
The project is called Azorim Yearim. It uses TAMA 38/2, the route that lets owners tear down an old building and replace it with a larger, safer one. The announcement gives these figures:
- Out: 108 flats in four three-floor blocks, set around a shared garden.
- In: 220 flats in five buildings of 7 to 8 floors, on about 9 dunams. A dunam is 1,000 square meters.
- The garden stays in the middle. The architecture office Kika Braz planned the new layout.
- Sales are open: homes of 3 to 6 rooms, garden flats, and penthouses, from NIS 3.7 million.
The NIS 3.7 million figure is the developer’s starting asking price. It is not a price a buyer has paid, and the announcement does not say which floor or which building it covers.
Two checks on this page are ours. 220 minus 108 is 112 extra homes, which matches the net addition Merkaz HaNadlan states. 220 divided by 108 is about 2.04, so the new project has a little more than twice as many homes. If the site is 9 dunams, that is 12 homes per dunam before and about 24 after. The land size is given as about 9 dunams, so those per-dunam figures are approximate.
The announcement does not say what the current owners receive in return for the demolition. Before you sign an urban renewal deal, our urban renewal risk check lists what to confirm. If you are buying new in Ramat Hasharon, ask which home the NIS 3.7 million price covers, and when that building is due.
The picture at the top is Ramat Hasharon from the air in 2013, not the Kiryat Yearim demolition. Photo: Amos Meron, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
