Home Prices Marking Record: Up 20.3% Annually

House prices across Israel set new records in October, with an increase of 20.3 percent compared with October 2021, according to the latest figures released Thursday by the Central Bureau for Statistics. The rise was especially felt in the northern and central regions, where the figure was 22.5%. Inflation for the year to October has been…

On the “tent-city” housing-price protests

Could it be that Israelis, at least those supporting the tent city protests, have come to the conclusion that they themselves have been friers (suckers), willfully paying inflated prices on every item they purchase, a captive audience in a war- and taxes-rattled country surrounded by foes? The theme that keeps coming up in conversations between…