11 HaKnesset HaGdola, Tel Aviv

11 HaKnesset HaGdola. Bavli.

On the same street as number 22, eleven doors along. Twenty-eight residences, demolition and reconstruction, held for owner-occupation.

The building

Eight storeys. Twenty-eight residences. Architect Moshelin Simon. A TAMA 38/2 scheme — the existing building taken down to the plot, a new residential building erected in its place to full current specification throughout, rather than the retention-and-extension model that characterises the TAMA 38/1 reinforcements elsewhere in the catalogue.

Awaiting permit. The standard TAMA 38/2 cycle from this point means construction commences at permit grant; handover anticipated in 2027-2028.

The residential mix is notably varied across floors. Garden residences at ground level with substantial private garden areas — one with 128 square metres of garden, another with 121 — functioning effectively as two-level houses within the building. Three-to-five-room apartments on the middle floors, at the family-scale register. A six-room penthouse on the sixth floor at 166 square metres with 62 square metres of terrace, and a seven-floor duplex with rooftop access at 157 square metres of interior plus 75 square metres of terrace. The building’s inventory addresses five or six distinct buyer profiles in a single scheme — a more varied offering than most of the boutique buildings in the catalogue, which tend to organise around a single dominant apartment type.

The sister building, one street

The office holds both HaKnesset HaGdola 11 and HaKnesset HaGdola 22 — two Ben Shalom buildings on the same Bavli street, eleven doors apart, released within the same broader representation cycle.

They sit at different points in their permit cycles: 22 holds committee decision approval and is further advanced, 11 is still awaiting permit. They sit on different points of the street: 22 on a corner plot with direct Yarkon Park views, 11 on a mid-block position along the same street’s established residential stretch. The architect is different in each case — PLATFORM UR at 22, Moshelin Simon at 11 — which means the architectural registers will not match, even on a small street where most architects would assume some visual dialogue between adjacent buildings.

For a buyer whose register is Bavli specifically, and whose preference is to hold both buildings in the conversation, the distinctions between them are real and worth considering directly. The office will present both on enquiry.

The street

HaKnesset HaGdola is the street that Bavli residents will tell you is their street. One-way, quiet, paved without particular ornament, running parallel to the Yarkon Park along its most established stretch. The original Ben Shalom copy for this building invokes “the most charming street in the area” — in the original Hebrew, this is a resident’s phrase rather than a marketing phrase, and the sense of the word is something closer to agreeable or well-maintained than picturesque. It describes a street whose character has been stable for forty years.

The position of number 11 on the street is mid-block rather than corner. The walking geometry is the same as for number 22: children walk to the Remez and Alliance schools within minutes; residents walk to the beach through the Yarkon Park connecting path without crossing a through-road; the Dekel Country Club is four minutes away on foot.

One point worth noting in the original Ben Shalom copy — and worth preserving in the rewrite — is the phrase “the Reading compound.” The Reading compound is the historic electricity station on the coastline, now repurposed as a music and cultural venue, and the walking route from HaKnesset HaGdola to the Reading passes through the Yarkon Park along one of its most pleasant stretches. The Reading is a specific piece of Tel Aviv cultural geography that residents of Bavli know and reference; for the buyer who understands what it means, naming it here carries weight that a generic “cultural venues” description does not.

The apartment mix

With twenty-eight residences across garden-ground, three- to five-room middle floors, a sixth-floor penthouse, and a seventh-floor duplex, this building is structurally different from the 22-residence sister scheme at number 22. Number 22 is organised around a single Signature Edition duplex penthouse — the headline residence that defines the building’s register, with the other residences supporting around it. Number 11 distributes its interest more evenly across the residential stack: the garden residences at ground level are notable in their own right, the middle-floor residences span a wider range of sizes, and the two upper-floor residences (penthouse and duplex) are each significant without either clearly dominating.

This has a practical consequence for the buyer who is deciding between the two buildings. At 22, the primary question is “do I want the penthouse specifically?” — because the penthouse defines the building. At 11, the question is more open: “which of the five or six distinct apartment registers in this building fits me best?”

The buyer

11 HaKnesset HaGdola is addressed to the same Bavli buyer profile as 22 — returning Israeli families with children at or approaching school age, Anglo and French buyers consolidating to a family-sized residence, senior professionals whose working life is in the central commercial axis but whose family life wants the park. The distinguishing feature of this specific building is the variety of the residential mix: for a buyer whose preference is a garden residence rather than a penthouse, or for a buyer whose family composition is such that a middle-floor three- or four-room residence is the right fit rather than a top-floor duplex, 11 specifically is the building that holds that option.

The two buildings address overlapping buyer profiles but with genuinely different preferred-residence types. The office will direct the correct recommendation based on which specific residence in which specific building is the right register for the buyer.

The representation

The scheme is awaiting permit. Once permit is granted, the developer will release an initial set of residences for qualified enquirers ahead of broader market release. For buyers who introduce themselves to the office in the current period, the full inventory — including the ground-floor garden residences and the upper-floor duplex — remains under discussion rather than on the public portal.

The sister building to 22, eleven doors along the same quiet Bavli street. A more varied residential mix, a different architectural register. Both buildings held by the office. The right recommendation depends on which specific residence suits the specific buyer.

A note from the office. If you are considering 11 HaKnesset HaGdola — or if you are weighing it against the sister building at 22 — a brief conversation is the simplest place to begin.

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By appointment. By introduction. By conversation.