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Construction of new high rises in Ramat Gan, March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
Housing policy out of sync with shifting demand, especially for smaller homes, study finds
By Zev Stub
Research center says failure to account for growth of number of households driving prices out of reach, leaving more families in rentals, with major changes needed to address crisis
View of Jerusalem's Begin Highway and surrounding areas, as seen from a helicopter, on October 12, 2025 (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
January 30, 2026, 7:03 am
Ambitious Jerusalem building plans may include future subway, planner says
At conference on urban planning in the capital, officials optimistic on housing and transportation issues as mayor reveals plan to save green areas threatened by development
By Zev Stub
Tel Aviv's cityscape. February 11, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
July 7, 2025, 11:32 pm
Tel Aviv ranked 8th most expensive place to buy home in report on world’s key cities
Deutsche Bank says prices in city center jumped 110% since 2012; Tel Aviv ranked 28th for quality of life, 3rd most expensive city to buy car
By Michael Horovitz
Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
May 26, 2025, 4:08 pm
Is the government using the housing crisis to drive the settlement movement?
As home ownership inside the State of Israel climbs out of reach, Israelis flock to West Bank settlements — and receive generous government support
By Ariela Karmel
An 800-unit apartment complex in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood. (Ari Cohen Architects and City Planners)
February 28, 2025, 9:57 am
Housing Ministry plans to encourage long-term rentals as Israelis priced out of purchasing
With more Israelis renting instead of buying homes, the Construction and Housing Ministry is working on a strategic plan to make the market serve all citizens, not only investors
By Zev Stub
Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
January 31, 2025, 9:49 am
Why rent in Jerusalem is surging disproportionately – and unlikely to let up soon
With immigration of American and French Jews rising, partly driven by antisemitism, and many buildings undergoing urban renewal projects, fewer apartments are available for tenants
By Zev Stub
The high-ceilinged dorm rooms of Abraham Hostel Jerusalem (Courtesy Abraham Hostel)
December 18, 2024, 4:29 pm
With tourism slacking, Jerusalem hostel pivots to low-cost student housing
Amid downturn during the war, Abraham Hostel is working with a nonprofit to offer dorm-type rooms for students at a fraction of the market price
By Zev Stub
A sign declaring an upcoming construction project to replace the existing one seen behind it, Gonen neighborhood of Jerusalem, on January 19, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 29, 2024, 2:13 am
Why Israel’s housing market is seeing an unlikely surge amid the war
Experts say a surprising spike in prices can be chalked up to systemic flaws, labor shortages and foreign buyers – but whatever the cause, Israeli buyers are feeling the squeeze
By Hadas Kuznits
View of Mount Arbel, in Northern Israel. May 13, 2010. (Yaakov Naumi/ Flash90/ File)
July 2, 2023, 9:33 pm
Cabinet authorizes Ramat Arbel, a new community to be built in Galilee
Netanyahu hails decision as a ‘celebration for all of Israel,’ among efforts to ease housing crisis; in 2006, government nixed plans for town at site, citing environmental damage
By ToI Staff
California Sen. Scott Wiener, left, shakes hands with a man after a rally for more housing outside of City Hall in Oakland, California, January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
May 24, 2023, 4:47 am
Unsettled by Jewish history, a California lawmaker takes on his state’s housing woes
Co-chair of Sacramento’s Jewish Caucus, State Senator Scott Wiener cites his upbringing as inspiring legislation that will allow religious institutions to build homes on their land
By Louis Sallerson
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A kitchen before Tenufa Bakehila worked on it. (Credit: Tenufa Bakehila)
December 21, 2022, 7:45 pm
NGO confronts Israel’s hidden housing crisis
Their homes are dark and in deep disrepair. Elderly shower in cold water in the winter, Holocaust survivors drag buckets of water to broken toilet so they can flush.
By Elisheva Wadler
Construction of new housing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on November 18, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
December 15, 2022, 9:41 pm
House prices keep soaring, marking record 20.3% rise in a year
Dramatic figure comes as other inflationary pressures ease, with consumer prices rising more slowly
By Danielle Nagler
Likud Head MK Benjamin Netanyahu surrounded by MKs after a vote for the new Knesset speaker at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 15, 2022, 1:21 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 15: Making order out of Knesset chaos; how to invest NIS 300,000
Ahead of tonight’s ToI’s live-streamed event, Knesset reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn on the override clause; real estate reporter Danielle Nagler on ways to get on the housing ladder
By ToI Staff
A construction site in a new neighborhood in Be'er Yaakov, March 26, 2020. (Flash90)
December 14, 2022, 1:38 pm
Home sales plummet by 65% in October, amid prolonged housing crisis
Finance Ministry data says month’s 5,100 purchases are among the lowest figures of any October in past 20 years, and lowest of any month since 1st COVID lockdown in April 2020
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism leader Yitzchak Goldknopf at a conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 7, 2022, 5:04 pm
Expected incoming housing minister: I don’t know if there is a housing crisis
‘From what I see, there is construction all around,’ United Torah Judaism leader Yitzhak Goldknopf says, with annual rise in home prices at highest level in recent memory
By ToI Staff
File: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the European Friends of Israel Policy Conference in the Chagall Hall in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)
November 17, 2022, 1:18 pm
Daily Briefing Nov 17: Democracy isn’t dying, but the housing market may be
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on incessant rumors of a unity government and real estate editor Danielle Nagler on a new amusement park in the Negev
By ToI Staff
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