Kokhav HaTzafon

One of the neighborhood's roundabouts

Kokhav HaTzafon (Hebrew: שכונת כוכב הצפון‎, lit. Northern Star) is a residential neighborhood in northwestern Tel Aviv, Israel.

Northern Star is a New North neighborhood that is the closest to the Old North area, Tel Aviv Port and adjacent to the Yarkon Park (100 meters). The neighborhood boundaries are Ibn Gabirol Street(West), Shay Agnon and Sde Dov Airport(North), Namir(East) an the Yarkon Park(South).

The neighborhood extends over approximately 42.1 hectares, and its built-up area is approximately 24.4 hectares, with over 1,700 apartments. There are about 4,160 residents that lives in the neighborhood (as of 2012). Northen Star was built during the 90s and has very few land reserves. The outer part of the neighborhood is characterized by high-rise construction in shared houses. Inside the neighborhood a few cottage houses.

The neighborhood was ranked in 2015 by an Israeli news site as one of the most expensive neighborhoods due to its location - "The research revealed Northern Star neighborhood in North of Tel Aviv is the most expensive, with a price tag of 3.98 million for an average apartment"^[1]

Places in the neighborhood [ edit source | edit ]

• Garden-park "garden Kokhav HaTzafon" - a quiet inner park of 2.2 hectares. The garden includes wide grassy areas, children's and toddlers play facilities, benches, a small decorated fountain, TRX facilities and more.
• Elementary school "Northen Star" - In September 2015 the elementary school,^[2] "Northen Star", started to operate. The school has been designed as ecological and includes green features such as shell walls and windows thermal insulator.^[3] School building covers 0.2 hectares of total area of 0.85 hectares including an indoor sports. In addition, at the school enrichment classes are offered for the neighborhood children.
• WIZO Day-care - WIZO day care center for toddlers in the neighborhood.
• Kindergarten - three municipal kindergartens in urban preschoolers are located Abba Kovner Street.
• Boney Ha-Ir street commercial center - a small shopping center where there are a number of businesses such as Super-Sal, a restaurant and more.
• Dog park - in 2016 established a new dog park new on Ibn Gvirol street.
• A shopping center and a medical complex- in the eastern part of the neighborhood, Meir Yaari street, a large commercial center with a variety of stores as well as medical clinics complex is being constructed. The complex has an underground parking garage that will serve the shopping center and medical complex.
• Synagogue - currently under review and is planned to be adjacent to the new shopping center.

Population and familiar characters in the neighborhood [ edit source | edit ]

According to the Israeli's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and Madlan^[4] website, Northern Star neighborhood scored the highest socio-economic index (ranked 10 out of 10).

The resident of the neighborhood are mostly academic that are engaged in "free" professions.

Among the neighborhood residents, there are few known Israeli's figures that can be named, Hanoch Rosen ^[5] , Ephraim Sidon ^[5] satirist and poet, Dr. Zahi Grossman^[6] secretary-general of the Israeli Association of Pediatrics, the TV director Benny Carmeli,^[7] Judge Dr. Ami Kobo,^[5] Eitan Erez^[6] Deputy Prime Bar Association, Attorney Yuri Guy Ron^[8] former head of the Bar Association, past basketball player Shimon Amsalem,^[6] MK Dr. Michael Oren^[9] former Israeli ambassador to the United States

• Party leads in elections: the Zionist camp, 44%
• Employment: white collar, 45%
• Persons per apartment: 2.2
• Age distribution (CBS, 2012):

Up to 17	18-65	65 and above
19%	65%	16%

• Distribution of education (CBS, 2012):

Academics	With maturity	Without maturity
50%	27%	23%

Transport and access routes [ edit source | edit ]

• Reading Terminal - public transport terminal center, within walking distance from the neighborhood. The terminal is located closest to the west side of the neighborhood. This terminal serves the island harbor of Northen Star residents, Yarkon Park visitors, Reading Power Station and Sde Dov base. In addition, on the eastern edge of the neighborhood lies Seminar Kibbutzim also within walking distance, it provides dozens of lines of public transportation and is used by local residents.
• Bike paths- neighborhood surrounded by bike paths ^[10] - Levi Eshkol St.(east), Agnon St.(north), Ibn Gabirol St. (west). These routes allow easy access to the neighborhood bike, without the danger of going down to the road.
• Light Rail Transit (LRT) - the Green Line,^[11] expected to be the second LRT line in metropolitan Tel Aviv. The Green Line will pass through Iben Gevirol Street which is located in the western edge of the Northen Star. This line will connect the southern parts of the metropolis (city of Holon and Rishon Lezion) as well as northern part (Herzliya) with Tel Aviv. Line length approximately 39 km, including 4.5 km underground with 61 stations, of which five underground stations (stations Lewinsky, Carlebach, Dizengoff, Rabin Square / City Hall and Arlozoroff).

References

1. ציאון, הילה (2015-01-30). "בית ב-130 מיליון: איפה הדירות הכי יקרות?". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2016-10-21.
2. "דבר המנהל". Tlv.Edu. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
3. Almog, Itay. "בית ספר יסודי כוכב הצפון בתל אביב // פרויקט ישראלי". Archijob.co.il - עיצוב ואדריכלות חדשות. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
4. בית, מדלן - ככה מוצאים היום. "מדלן - ככה מוצאים היום בית". מדלן - ככה מוצאים היום בית (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2016-10-21.
5. "הבית של הפנטומימאי חנוך רוזן". ynet. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
6. קושרק, נועה (2010-01-04). "הבחירות לוועד שכונת כוכב הצפון בתל אביב - יצרים, כעסים ואחוז הצבעה גבוה". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2016-10-21.
7. "הבית של הפנטומימאי חנוך רוזן". ynet. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
8. "הצצה מבפנים: הבתים של אנשי הנדל"ן המובילים". Ynet (in Hebrew). 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
9. "דירה סודית ודופלקס בצפון תל אביב: כך חיים הח"כים שלנו - וואלה! בחירות 2015". וואלה! בחירות 2015. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
10. "tel-o-fun" (PDF). https://www.tel-o-fun.co.il. Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. External link in |website= (help)
11. "הקו הירוק | נת"ע - נתיבי תחבורה עירוניים | NTA". www.nta.co.il. Retrieved 2016-10-21.

Coordinates: 32°6′3.04″N 34°47′9.75″E / 32.1008444°N 34.7860417°E