Tag: Housing
Israel completes housing for Guatemalans who lost homes in 2018 volcano blast
Israel’s embassy in Guatemala recently finished its housing development in the town of Escuintla for families whose homes were destroyed in the 2018 Fuego volcano eruption.
On Jan. 31, Israel’s Ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras...
West Bank facts on the ground cannot be ignored
Palestinian and American officials had on Monday their first formal public contact since 2017. The Palestinian Authority refused to speak to the Trump administration for years because of anger over the moving of the...
Israel’s High Court of Justice votes to demolish house of Esther Horgen’s killer
Israel’s High Court of Justice voted on Wednesday to demolish part of the home lived in by the murderer of Esther Horgen.
Horgen, 52 and the mother of six children, was killed in late December by Muhammad Cabha after...
Israel headed towards 1 million residents living in the West Bank
The latest edition of the “West Bank Jewish Population Stats Report,” commissioned annually by former Member of Knesset and National Union Party head Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz, shows a 2.62 percent growth in 2020, and a 17 percent in...
Study: Israel second least affordable country
Israeli housing is the second most expensive in the world, a new study finds.
According to the study, conducted by Australia’s price-comparison website CompareTheMarket, the average Israeli household spends the equivalent of 26.6 percent of its...
Ahead of Pompeo visit, Israel announces plan to build 7,000 homes in Efrat
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced the approval of a plan to build some 7,000 new housing units in the town of Efrat in Gush Etzion.
The town, which lies southwest of Jerusalem...
Pricey Tel Aviv included on investment bank’s list of real estate bubbles
The real estate market in Tel Aviv is expected to cool off, but home prices are still high, according to a report by UBS Global Wealth Management published before Rosh Hashanah, which for the first time included the...
Anti-Semitism leads to spike in demand for homes in Israel
Anti-Semitism is once again rearing its head across the globe; Jews in Europe are starting to be afraid to wear kippot in public. Meanwhile, U.S. synagogues are being turned into bloodbaths. The sense of insecurity many...
Community fair introduces new Israeli immigrants to affordable housing options
As Israel’s real estate and housing markets continue to expand, new immigrants are faced with searching for affordable home-buying options in communities around the country.
To help in that endeavor, 500 olim gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday...