Incoming housing minister reportedly owns illegally divided Jerusalem apartment

United Torah Judaism party leader MK Yitzchak Goldknopf, who has been promised the role of housing minister in the next government, reportedly owns an apartment that has been illegally divided into multiple apartments.

According to a report in Haaretz, Goldknopf is listed as the owner of an apartment in Jerusalem that has been divided into five separate dwellings without registering it as such with the municipality, as is required by law.

Goldknopf in response claims that he did once own the apartment, but that he left it in March 2021 and that it was not divided up during the period he owned it. According to Haaretz, the official registration shows that Goldknopf still owns the apartment and that his wife is listed as the owner in the municipality’s Arnona tax registry.