It started as a small settlement… and since then, everything about it has been innovative and outstanding…
To view photographs from the early days
In 1949 the Jewish Agency for Israel established a settlement for immigrants on the outskirts of Petach Tikva, near Moshav Hayovel (modern-day Kfar Maas), on land that belonged partly to the Jewish National Fund and partly under private ownership. The settlement was known as Shikun Hayovel. It absorbed about a thousand families from Lybia, Romania, Poland, Yemen and Morocco, living in 240 wooden ('Swedish') huts, four families to a hut, each with just a single room and a corner kitchen area. 
In the 1950s, the settlement was not connected to the national electricity grid, and there was little water and no public transport - buses only came as far as Kfar Maas and residents had to continue from there by foot.
Mekorot built the infrastructure for about 15 km of water pipes, and the following year linked the settlement up to its own water supply. The National Electricity Grid was connected on Independence Day 1952.
The settlement's name was changed to Ganey Tikva in 1954, when it received municipal status as a Local Council. In 1958, single-story and two-story houses were built by Amidar, marking the beginning of a development boom.
Between 1962 and 1965, the religious neighborhood of Yismach Moshe was built on the eastern side of Ganey Tikva, by the Admor of Sasov's family. The neighborhood known as Guvernik was built for new immigrants to the west of Shikun Hayovel in 1968 and later renamed Harama. In 1972, Africa-Israel began investing in one of its first projects, the Givat Savyion neighborhood, west of Ganey Tikva. At the same time, the community saw a phase of extensive development resulting in the size of its population and land area doubling.
Under Council Head Shalom Hilik's direction, schools, kindergartens, synagogues and the council house were built, planned and supervised by the council architect at the time, Eli Shapir.
When Avishai Levine was elected in 1993, the community began to change beyond recognition.
During his term of office, most of the water, sewage and drainage infrastructures were replaced. Twenty traffic circles were built to improve road safety, and investment in education and cultur was significantly increased, including the development of open green spaces and outdoor sculptures. The New Givat Savyion neighborhood was built in 1995, a new residential neighborhood on the eastern side of Gany Tikva bordering Kfar Maas. The neighborhood is characterized by single-family, detached homes in a built-up area. As part of this development, a cultural center was built, including the Habama Center theater-gallery and a country club and shopping center.
A year later, in 1996, construction began on the religious neighborhood of Nof Savyion in western Ganey Tikva. 
In 2006, a new neighborhood was started on the northern side of Ganey Tikva, Haganim, with 400 built-up housing units. It was the first neighborhood to be built on lands annexed from Petach Tikva at the end of the 1990s and further neighborhoods are being planned here.
Local Council Head Avishai Levine believes that the main focus of effort and investment should now be directed at:
- Education and culture – where everything begins, reaching every home in the community.
- Investing in environmental protection, the quality of infrastructure and maintenance – abiding by high standards in the new neighborhoods and continuously upgrading the older neighborhoods.
- A personal emphasis on community relations, education and good interrelations. A proper and caring attitude towards the weak and needy, and the formation of cultural relations between the different sectors of the community making up Ganey Tikva.
Today, Ganey Tikva is a small community with great promise...
a green, attractive, and exciting place to live