About the Garden

The Tel-Aviv university Botanical Garden was established at 1973, as the legacy and spiritual testament of Noah Naftulsky, one of the pioneer botanists and plant researchers in Israel. Today it is used as a center for teaching, for research and as a shelter for endangered plant species. The garden is about 34,000 Sq.M.. It has a display of the plants in Israel and its neighboring countries, and displays of unique plants from all over the world. In total, there are about 3800 plant species in the garden from Israel and all over the world.

the garden is a center for research and education for the researchers of The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and mainly from the Manna Center Program for Food Safety & Security – as well as other researchers from Tel Aviv university or other high education establishments in Israel and the world. The Botanical Garden is an educational center for professionals, schoolchildren and the general public. It reveals the beauty of nature and the richness of biodiversity, as well as important ecological and evolutional aspects.
experiments and researches are done year-round on different plant species, in the garden, in its greenhouses and laboratories. They are used in different fields, such as Ecology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Evolutionary Genetics and more.

At the year 2019 the garden name was changed to "The Yehuda Naftali Botanic Garden", as a tribute to Yehuda Naftali that chose to donate for the Botanical garden's development and progress.

The Biodiversity that represents the flora of Israel with a selection of world flora make the garden a living dynamic museum of the plants' world with all its aspects. Several ecological and botanical researches are taking place in the garden, looking at a wide variety of subjects – from the functioning of ecological societies to plant genetics. In addition, there is a research on rare and endangered wild plant species that the garden is growing, also as a shelter garden to help protect these species.

The Botanical Garden is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, via the Botanical garden counsel.

The Yehuda Naftali Botanic Garden is a gem of nature in the middle of the bustling city. Among the trees thicket, trickle of water and rich vegetation all around, it is easy to forget the Ayalon highway just around the corner. For a short while it seems like we're out of the city, and in far-away places, like a desert oasis, a tropical land or even underground, where you can see plant roots.

Visiting the botanical gardens is with a guide or in a coordinated group, via the Steinhardt museum of Natural History. Press here for more details.