Tel Aviv

Guide
Building a Society for Babies, Toddlers and Caregivers
This guide for policymakers covers integrated policies and vital services to promote early childhood development.
Toolkit
Urban95 Starter Kit
This toolkit is an excellent starting point for city leaders and urban professionals to understand the value of investing in babies, toddlers…
News
Urban Playground – a new book by Tim Gill
Last week we hosted a virtual book launch for Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities. The author, Tim…
Case
5 key takeaways from the Urban95 Festival
On December 2, 2019, over seventy city leaders, planners, designers and thinkers from around the world committed to making cities better for…
Case
Case studies on scaling early years initiatives
The first three in a series of 15 case studies on scaling early years initiatives have now been published. Conducted by researchers…
Management case studies
City Hall Embraces Early Childhood Development: Reaching an Underserved Population in Tel Aviv, 2016-2019
This case study investigates why and how young children climbed up the municipal agenda.
Case
Copenhagen study tour inspires new play spaces in Tel Aviv
During 2018, Yoav Ben-Yehuda, the Director of Parks and Gardens for Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, led the installation of 150 new play facilities…
Announcement
Urban95 honoured in Fast Company 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards
The Bernard van Leer Foundation’s global Urban95 initiative has been named as a finalist in Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards.…
Announcement
New basket of parenting services being piloted in six community centres in Tel Aviv
For the first time, the municipality of Tel Aviv is offering a basket of services to support pregnant mothers and parents of…
Announcement
Israel’s lawmakers take responsibility for supervising childcare providers
History was made yesterday when the BvLF-supported Coalition for Education from Birth succeeded in pressuring lawmakers in Israel’s Knesset to pass a…
Story
Urban95 in Tel Aviv: a perspective from Latin America
Urban95 fits well in Tel Aviv. As stated in his welcoming speech by Mr. Menachem Lieba, Director General of the municipal government,…
Story
Urban95 in Tel Aviv: a desire for continual improvement
On a recent study tour to Tel Aviv, we struck up a conversation with a father who was with his three-year-old daughter.…