Housing Prices Down Two Quarters in a Row
Housing costs are trending downward in Israel despite recent interest-rate cuts by the Bank of Israel.
Housing costs are trending downward in Israel despite recent interest-rate cuts by the Bank of Israel.
Sales drop by 32% as potential buyers hope for change. In central Israel, sales drop by over 60%.
Knesset State Control Committee to pressure IDF to give up land for housing projects.
Student rally supports both the housing protest and the prime minister.
Most Israelis see socio-economic issues as the country's top concern, while only 11% see talks with the PA as the most pressing issue.
Opposition discussed no confidence motions as social protest groups begin bickering. PM: "Jabotinsky believed in free market".
PM Binyamin Netanyahu defended his fiscal reforms - and the defense budget - as 'social protests' enter doldrums.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered around the country to protests Israel's high cost of living.
Protesters complaining about the high cost of housing in Tel Aviv are not imagining it. But do they have to live there?
Besides high land prices and tight demand, cement, produced by Israeli monopoly Nesher, is a culprit as well, says MK Einat Wilf.
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu cancelled a diplomatic visit to Poland in order to deal with Israel's hot-button housing crisis