Public spaces in Ganey Tikva receive a considerable amount of care and investment in the fields of environmental protection, developing green spaces, and expanding public parks and outdoor sculpture.
A pleasant environment expands the mind and influences people's attitude to encourage them to respect their surroundings and ensure that they are clean and well kept, as part of the cultural and educational ethos.
For over ten years Ganey Tikva has been winner of five stars in the Beautiful Town Competition held by the Council for a Beautiful Israel. In 2004, Ganey Tikva won the Beautiful Town Flag for the first time. In 2006 it won the Decade of Excellence Shield and in 2010 Ganey Tikva was chosen as one of the four leading communities in the country as candidate for the Beautiful Town Flag for the second time.
Many roads have been designed and upgraded and some have been turned into moderated traffic roads, with special attention paid to parking space and upgrading street lighting and public gardens.
Free-access fitness facilities have been set up around the community. The grey electricity and telephone communications junction boxes have been painted in colorful geometrical motifs to enhance grey utilitarian objects and to make the environment brighter, more colorful and inviting. Ganey Tikva was one of the first communities to start using hidden subterranean garbage containers for household waste, an aesthetic and advanced solution, and soon pairs of garbage containers will be in position, one for wet waste and one for dry waste. New and aesthetic rubber flooring replaces sand in children's play areas.
Gardens and parks for your enjoyment
The Garden of Peace and Love in memory of Yitzhak Rabin won the Avraham Karavan award for garden and landscape gardening and provides a large green area in the heart of the community. The beautiful park covers 2.7 green acres and includes ancient olive trees and unique elements. The colorful, secluded seating areas scattered throughout the park add their own touch of charm and beauty. The park is one of a series of public parks: Hatabor Park on Hatabor St., Hapisga Park on Hapisga St., the Water Tower Park on Hanegev St., Hagalil Park on Hagalil St., and the Children's Park soon to be built on Emek Zvulon St..JPG)
Birds and legendary beasts are some of the sculptures in the Iron Space sculpture garden, in the eastern part of Ganey Tikva. The park stretches along an 820-foot park strip, bordered on the one side by the urban development and pleasant homes of New Ganei Savyion neighborhood and open on the other side to the countryside which is still natural, calm and untouched by human hand. This contrast is ultimately suited to the works of artist Dina Merhav, who specializes in constructing and placing open air sculptures in Israel and elsewhere in the world and whose work is displayed in the park.
Outdoor sculptures
Ganey Tikva has sculptures by some of Israel's leading sculptors. Most of the sculptors represented in Ganey Tikva have displayed their work at the Tefen and Omer Open Museums, and have become the names in Israeli art and sculpture.
The addition of outdoor sculptures to Ganey Tikva's public spaces is gradually turning the community into one big urban outdoor museum.
Gallery of outdoor sculptures
Hatikva Boulevard
Hatikva Boulevard, built on a 100-foot wide strip, links old Ganey Tikva with its new neighborhoods and forms an additional route linking the three main educational institutes, including the new
high school soon to be built in north Ganey Tikva. Sixteen stone scrolls with the Hatikva national anthem translated into sixteen different languages have been placed on the boulevard, near the open-air mosaic museum and outdoor sculptures along the avenue. Hatikva Boulevard has a number of open areas planned as meeting places and for orientation: the obelisk squares, the outdoor museum square and adjacent cafeteria where a coffee shop is planned, and the open-air theater square with a number of play areas and free-access fitness facilities for the public to enjoy.
The biological pools, using recycled grey water from the nearby Ganim neighborhood, with ornamental fish, water lilies and special plants, will soon be opened and the water will be used to irrigate the nearby public gardens and landscaped squares. The boulevard represents an important contribution to the urban layout, constituting a route that enables access from every part of the community to high quality green public spaces and encourages cycling and walking as a means of getting around the community.
Without a doubt, Hatikva (Hope) Boulevard is an important feature that enhances Ganey Tikva's reputation as a green community committed to the arts.
