UNESCO has expressed its opposition to the proposed plans to redevelop some areas in central and north Tel Aviv.

Some suggest that the city of Tel Aviv could even loose UNESCO World heritage Site status if the redevelopment plan is implemented. Israel's Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar has joined property owners to oppose Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality's plans to redevelop Quarters 3 and 4 of the city. Tel Aviv city engineer Oded Gvuli has also expressed opposition to the redevelopment plan.

Sa'ar, who serves as president of UNESCO Israel, wrote in a letter to the Tel Aviv Regional Planning and Building Commission that UNESCO Israel is opposing the current redevelopment plan as it is against Israel's commitments to UNESCO in preserving Tel Aviv's White City as a world heritage site.

The letter noted that the current redevelopment is liable to damage values that are to be protected under the commitment of the country that were made to preserve the status of Tel Aviv's White City as a world heritage site.

"This concern is heightened in view of the lack of a statutory interface in the plan, which the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality promised as part of the declaration in 2003. So long as there is no statutory interface plan to preserve the character and fabric of the area of the declaration, we hereby express our opposition to the plan for the quarters," said UNESCO.

Gvuli also noted that the redevelopment plan is subject to an approval from UNESCO and an approval is not likely from the multinational body.