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A view of the luxury apartment neighborhood of Mamila in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
March 13, 2017, 6:10 pm
Investors bailing out of new properties market — report
Purchases of new homes by investors down by a third over year, sales up by a quarter since December — Finance Ministry
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks out across the Negev during a special cabinet meeting at the Sde Boker academy to mark 40 years since the passing of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, November 10, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
August 23, 2016, 11:32 am
A deeper political agenda behind Israel’s soaring housing market?
Op-ed: Tackling rocketing house prices with new taxes and various harebrained schemes, the government seems to be ignoring the obvious solution: free up more land. Or has the goal all along been to encourage people to move to settlements?
By David Horovitz
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2016, 4:00 pm
Kahlon backs proposal to expel families of terrorists
Finance minister says controversial move will deter terror, vows to oppose de-funding artists who are ‘disloyal’ to the state
By Marissa Newman
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September 6, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
From the WebOctober 7, 2015, 9:21 am
Kahlon hails deal to build 20,000 homes in Beersheba
Finance minister says ‘historic agreement’ will help solve housing crisis, Globes reports
Yoav Galant (right) inspects construction currently underway in the town of Harish, July 2, 2015. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2015, 8:55 pm
Minister suspends public housing evictions
Yoav Galant ‘wants to learn and examine the issue’ over the next few weeks, says official
By TOI staff
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right), seen with Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 12, 2015, 8:32 am
Kahlon announces plan to lower housing prices
Finance minister focuses on deregulation, speeding up construction and disincentivizing property investment
By Gedalyah Reback
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem, December 21, 2014. (photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL)
December 21, 2014, 6:40 pm
Israel to inject NIS 660m into minority communities
Cabinet okays improvements to transportation infrastructure and industrial zones in Arab towns, tourism development in Nazareth
By Stuart Winer
The area where the Jerusalem municipality approved a master plan for the Arab neighborhood of Arab al-Sawahira in the city's southeast (Photo credit: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)
September 9, 2014, 3:49 am
Skepticism greets East Jerusalem Arab housing plan
While some welcome mayor’s effort to support Arab needs, critics say initiative is only a fig leaf for a much wider problem
By Tia Goldenberg
Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaks at a conference, March 26, 2014 (Photo credit: Flash90)
March 26, 2014, 4:32 pm
Lapid resolute on housing plan: ‘Let me do my work’
Finance minister defends initiative to drop VAT on first homes, calls his critics ‘interested parties’
By Itamar Sharon
A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (Uri Lenz / Flash90)
March 24, 2014, 7:19 pm
Cabinet okays tax-free homes for first-time buyers
Tax breaks, ‘target prices’ approved in effort to reduce housing costs for young families; Bank of Israel governor unimpressed
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (C) at a press conference promoting new housing units to be built in the Jewish settlement of Tel Tzion, near Jerusalem, on August 13, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 3, 2014, 6:05 pm
Settlement construction more than doubled in 2013
Opposition blasts Netanyahu as new data emerges ahead of prime minister’s meeting with Obama
By Elhanan Miller and Ilan Ben Zion
Apartment construction in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)
December 9, 2013, 5:23 pm
Tax on empty ‘ghost’ apartments to double
Measure meant to push absentee owners to rent out properties that sit unused most of the year, creating empty neighborhoods
By Lazar Berman
A thick haze hanging over Tel Aviv (photo credit: Times of Israel Staff)
November 20, 2013, 5:36 pm
Help when the rent is too damn high
Young residents of Tel Aviv have a new resource for navigating the city’s notoriously tough housing market
By Debra Kamin
November 3, 2013, 5:17 pm
Housing Ministry okays 1,700 new apartments over Green Line
Move likely to increase tension between Jewish Home party, which opposes withdrawal, and chief peace negotiator Livni
By TOI staff
Cranes building new apartment buildings in Beit Shemesh, in 2011. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
From the WebMay 12, 2013, 11:59 am
Housing Ministry: Home prices still rising fast
Globes: New home prices rose 6% between 2012 and 2013
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