4+Delivery trucks serving a Carrefour supermarket and shopping center in Tel Aviv’s affluent Park Tzameret neighborhood routinely park in spaces set aside for school drop-offs, in violation of posted municipal signage which allows them to operate there from 9:00AM. A C14 investigation found that as recently as October 11th, 2026, the school drop off zone is packed with heavy trucks before 9:00AM. C14 reviewed documentation that showed that since December 2025, parents have complained to the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality requesting an intervention and emphasizing the danger posed by the trucks, but they say that the city has taken no action to address the problem.
The area houses a municipal kindergarten and the Meshutaf school, a citywide public school that draws hundreds of children from across Tel Aviv, many of which arrive by car. Families have three designated drop-off spaces to share by the school.
4+Signs posted by the municipality are explicit. Commercial vehicles may load and unload between 9:00 and 16:00, Sunday through Thursday, and until 12:00 on Fridays and holiday eves. The adjacent drop-off zone is reserved for picking up and dropping off passengers between 7:30 and 8:30 in the morning and again from 12:30 to 16:30. Vehicles parked in violation, both signs state, will be towed.
4+Peak arrival at the school and kindergarten runs from 8:00 to 8:15, with afternoon pickup concentrated between 15:10 and 15:30. Photographs taken by parents on the morning of December 7, 2025, show at least five refrigerated delivery trucks parked across the drop-off area at 7:39, well before loading is permitted. One truck was stopped beside the entrance with a young child standing a few feet from its front bumper.
Parents say municipal parking inspectors patrol the area aggressively during those same hours. Parents say that cars belonging to families dropping off children are ticketed and towed, while the trucks parked beside them are left alone. On the day the photos were taken, parents reported that a child from the school was nearly struck by a tow truck operating in the drop-off zone.
4+The parents compiled their documentation into a presentation for the municipality. One slide placed a photo of a child beside a photo of a delivery truck under the question: “Which cargo is more valuable?”
4+Their proposed fix was modest. For 30 minutes each morning and afternoon, parents would be allowed to stop for up to five minutes anywhere in the area to drop off or collect children, and all other vehicles, supermarket trucks included, would be barred from entering.
The Tel Aviv Municipality’s response to C14’s request for comment: “The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality carries out enforcement at the location both in response to reports received through the municipal hotline and through proactive enforcement activity. Fines are issued whenever a parking violation is observed. In addition, municipal enforcement teams have been instructed to increase their presence at the location, with particular emphasis on school arrival and dismissal hours. In addition, we received six reports regarding this issue.”
Carrefour was not reachable for comment by press time.
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