Mortgage payments to be deferred for soldiers, evacuees, families of victims and missing

The government agrees to advance legislation that will allow for the deferral of mortgage and other payments for IDF soldiers, both conscripted and in the reserves, police officers, prison officers, firefighters, Hamas hostages, missing persons from Hamas’s terror assault, and their families, families of those murdered in the attack, and citizens who have been evacuated from their homes due to the ongoing war with Gaza and the skirmishes on the northern border.

“Since the war has had a significant impact on a number of population groups and disrupted the regular routine leaving them unable to fulfill their legal obligations on time, it has been proposed to grant… the option of a 30-day postponement to the [payment] date in the contract” for mortgage and tax payments, says the office of Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who initiated the legislation.

The postponement will not apply to alimony payments and salary payments to employees.

The legislation will now move to the Knesset for approval. The law will be extended if necessary, depending on the security situation, Levin’s office says.