Tuesday was a rules day, not a price day. The biggest news is a draft government paper that changes who gets paid what in urban renewal deals. It says a bigger old apartment does not automatically earn a bigger new one. That reverses the direction a May court ruling had pushed the industry.

Kiryat Yam had the busiest day of any Israeli city. Two separate renewal projects moved forward within hours of each other, together covering 2,276 planned homes. In Lod, five state inspection teams swept two neighbourhoods for people holding public land without permission. The contractor register lost five firms in one stroke, and a separate safety overhaul that lands on October 16 will make developers personally answerable for what happens on their sites. A Ramat Aviv plan that fought for years finally cleared its last appeal. Prosecutors told a deputy mayor in the north that they are weighing bribery charges tied to his planning committee role.

Two later stories round out the day, both outside the big coastal cities. Ma’ale Adumim opened sales on what its municipality calls the first pinui binui compound approved anywhere in Judea and Samaria. And Tiberias moved to freeze most new building permits across about 120 dunam covering its old market.

Four numbers we worked out ourselves, so please check them. In the Kiryat Yam Ir Galim project, 98 homes have sold for about NIS 194 million, which is about NIS 1.98 million per home. In the other Kiryat Yam plan, 826 homes will sit on 23 dunam, about 36 homes per dunam, against roughly 7.8 today. In Ramat Aviv, public space grows 83 percent, but the share per home falls about 25 percent because the number of homes grows faster. In Ma’ale Adumim, 750 homes replacing 147 on the same 33 dunam is about 5.1 times the homes.

A Bigger Old Apartment No Longer Guarantees a Bigger New One

The Government Authority for Urban Renewal and the Ministry of Justice have written a draft opinion on how developers must pay residents in pinui binui deals. Pinui binui means the developer knocks down old blocks and gives each owner a new apartment in what replaces them. The draft was reported on Tuesday, August 11 by TheMarker and on Wednesday by Globes and Nadlan Center.

The trigger was a Tel Aviv District Court ruling in May 2026 by Judge Gilad Hess, in a Ramat Gan project. One owner held a 105 square metre apartment plus a large share of the shared parts of the building. The deal offered every resident the exact same extra floor area. The judge said a flat, identical top up can amount to unfair treatment, because a bigger owner hands over more building rights. That gave her a legitimate reason to refuse the deal, and the industry has been unsettled ever since.

The draft pulls the pendulum back. Its main points:

  • A size gap between apartments does not by itself force the developer to add floor area.
  • Adjustments are owed only where the gaps between the original properties are substantial.
  • An adjustment does not have to be square metres. It can be a better fit out, a higher floor, a balancing cash payment, or first pick of the new apartments.
  • Developers may sort apartments into groups by shared traits such as location, area and attachments, and treat only clearly unusual ones on their own.
  • There is no automatic legal right to a 12 square metre addition, or to any addition. The legal starting point is a new apartment equal in area to the old one. Anything beyond that is commercial bargaining.
  • Different terms inside one project are allowed, but only with full transparency to all owners.
  • Owners who already signed cannot reopen the deal and demand better terms after the fact.

This is a draft, not a final rule. It has not been signed into anything binding.

Why it matters: if you own an unusually large flat in a building heading into renewal, your leverage just shrank, and the widely repeated “everyone gets 12 extra metres” line was never the law. Our page on selling a property in urban renewal covers how these deals work.

Israel Sends Five Inspection Teams Into Lod Over Land Squatting

On Monday, August 10, inspectors from the Israel Land Authority worked alongside Israel Police across Lod. The authority announced it the next day. The focus was two neighbourhoods, Shkhunat HaRakevet and Shkhunat Ramez.

Five inspection teams worked at the same time. Dozens of sites were checked. Inspectors mapped the land and identified who is holding each plot. The authority says it has now prepared the groundwork for dozens of eviction claims over long standing encroachments. Encroachment here means occupying or building on state land without a lease or permit.

Newer cases were handled differently. Those are heading straight for warnings and eviction orders, and one of them is a four storey building still under construction. The authority also went back over court judgments it already holds, to push them into collection proceedings. Shira Tam, who heads the authority’s land protection division, said the work will continue with the police, to stop new facts being created on the ground.

Why it matters: most land in Israel is state owned and leased, not privately owned outright. If you are buying anything in Lod, or any older plot, the paper trail is the whole story. See what an Israel Land Authority record can reveal about a property.

Kiryat Yam Books Two Renewal Wins in One Day

Two unrelated projects in the same small coastal city cleared hurdles on Tuesday. Together they account for 2,276 planned homes.

The Henrietta Szold compound. The Haifa District Planning and Building Committee voted to deposit the plan. Depositing is the stage where a plan is opened to public objections before final approval. The site covers 23 dunam between Sderot Yerushalayim, Tzahal Street and Henrietta Szold Street. Amram Et Nidam Urban Renewal filed it jointly with the municipality. Eleven three storey blocks holding 180 homes come down. In their place go 826 homes across seven buildings: four towers of 32 to 40 floors along Sderot Yerushalayim, and three ten storey buildings toward Henrietta Szold. The plan adds about 2,600 square metres of workspace in the lower floors of the corner tower, about 5,500 square metres of shopfronts, and public buildings. Shalom Tal is the architect. Reported by Magdilim and Nadlan Center, with local confirmation from Haipo and Kolbo Haifa.

The Ir Galim compound. Hachsharat HaYishuv Urban Renewal, part of the Nimrodi group, signed a financing deal worth about NIS 1.2 billion. The money comes from Ruby Capital together with Shlomo Insurance and Ayalon Insurance. Of that, NIS 240 million is a cash credit line. The financing covers 478 homes in phases A and B. The company sent eviction notices to residents last week, and last month hired Barel Group to build. Work is expected to start within months. The full compound runs to about 48 dunam. Six old railway blocks from the 1960s come down, replaced by 12 buildings of 9 to 32 floors holding 1,450 homes, plus about 13,000 square metres of shops, workspace, public buildings and schools, and a park. Reported by Magdilim and Nadlan Center.

Our figures, please check them. Ir Galim has sold 98 of the 399 homes it is marketing, about 25 percent, for a total of about NIS 194 million. Divide one by the other and the average sold home works out at about NIS 1.98 million. On the Henrietta Szold site, 826 homes on 23 dunam is about 36 homes per dunam, against about 7.8 today. That is roughly 4.6 times the homes on the same ground.

Why it matters: Kiryat Yam is becoming one of the densest renewal pipelines in the north, and prices there are still far below Haifa proper. We wrote earlier about Kiryat Yam’s northern revival, which is a different neighbourhood and a different plan.

Five Building Firms Struck Off Israel’s Contractor Register

The Contractors Registrar at the Ministry of Construction and Housing cancelled the licences of five construction firms last week. They were deleted from the Contractors Register. They may no longer carry out any contracting work that needs a licence.

The five are A.K. Abu Shahin Afar VeMischar Ltd, Schwartzberg Mordechai, Issa Marom Koach Adam VeShmira Ltd, Arminia Bniya Ltd, and Lumco Group Yazamut UBniya Ltd.

The reason is the same in all five cases. A contractor’s licence is granted partly on the strength of one named engineering professional the firm employs. Checks found that person was not actually on the payroll, which contradicts what the firms declared when they registered. The ministry says it confirmed this three ways: National Insurance records, checks with the companies where those professionals really worked, and questioning the individuals themselves. Each firm was called to a hearing, attended by investigators from the Ministry of Labour unit that licenses engineers. Registrar Amit Greidi said the register loses its meaning when firms do not employ the professionals their licence rests on. Reported by Nadlan Center, JDN and Keif.

Why it matters: the register is free and public. Before you sign with any builder, look the firm up and confirm the licence is live and correctly classified for the job.

In 65 Days, Israeli Developers Become Liable for Site Safety

One date is worth putting in your calendar: October 16, 2026. That is when an amendment to Israel’s Safety at Work (Construction Works) Regulations takes effect. The rules were approved back in September 2025. Maariv looked on August 11 at whether they will push apartment prices up.

Here is the change in one line. Today, responsibility for what happens on a building site sits mainly with the firm doing the building and the site work manager. From October it also sits directly on the party who ordered the work, meaning the developer.

Two practical consequences follow. First, the client has to appoint and pay for a bakar betihut, a safety controller. That is an independent checker who sits between the building contractor and the developer. Second, the amendment creates a formal site manager role. A safety officer will be able to stop work on the spot where there is immediate danger, and then report it to the regional work inspector. Company chief executives and directors are expected to show they have real control systems, clear lines of authority, and ongoing monitoring.

On price, the honest answer is nobody knows yet. The lawyers Maariv spoke to, Gil Dahuh and Noam Kolodny, warn of new costs and of delays when a site is shut, but say it is too early to tell whether any of it reaches the price of an apartment. No cost estimate per project or per home has been published.

Our figure, please check it. From today, August 12, to October 16 is 65 days. That is the whole runway developers have to appoint controllers and rewrite contracts.

Why it matters: if you are signing to buy off plan this autumn, ask the developer who their safety controller is and whether the contract price already assumes the October rules. A firm that has not thought about it yet is telling you something.

Ramat Aviv’s Brazil Street Plan Clears Its Last Appeal

A renewal fight in north Tel Aviv that ran for years ended on Monday. The Tel Aviv District Appeals Committee, chaired by Adv. Revital Applebaum, threw out the neighbours’ appeal and let the plan stand.

The site sits between Brazil Street numbers 6 to 34 and Leon Blum Street numbers 1 to 29. Seven four storey blocks come down. In their place go 475 homes, in five 15 storey towers and three 8 storey buildings. That is 279 more homes than stand there now. The developers are Azorim, Acro Urban Renewal, Tidhar, T.I.G and Taf Arel.

Two details are worth pulling out. Public open space in the compound grows from 1.5 dunam to 2.75 dunam. And 15 percent of the homes, about 71 of them, are set aside for affordable housing, meaning homes let or sold below market rate under a public scheme.

The plan had already been sent back once. In March 2023 the appeals committee partly accepted the residents and ordered a fresh look at building density, traffic, building lines, basements and affordable housing. The local subcommittee reheard it in September 2024, found the density justified, and attached the 15 percent affordable requirement. Reported by Nadlan Center, with Tel Aviv Online also reporting the approval.

Our figure, please check it. Public space rises 83 percent, from 1,500 to 2,750 square metres. But homes rise faster. Work it per home and the share falls from about 7.7 square metres each today to about 5.8 after, a drop of roughly 25 percent. One report puts the existing count at 192 rather than 196, which would move our figure slightly.

Why it matters: objecting neighbours delayed this plan by years and still lost. If you are buying into a north Tel Aviv block with a renewal plan attached, the delay risk is real but the plan usually survives. See our note on Ramat Aviv presale pricing.

Ashkelon Reopens a 148.5 Million Shekel Renewal Subsidy

The Government Authority for Urban Renewal published its third call for proposals to co fund pinui binui projects in Ashkelon. The announcement went up on August 11.

The money exists because some Ashkelon renewal schemes simply do not add up for a developer. Government Decision 852 of 2023 sets aside about NIS 600 million to strengthen the city, spread across the years 2023 to 2031. It replaces the older method of handing developers extra land to make the sums work. This round offers up to about NIS 148.5 million, which the authority says lets it pick more compounds, and lets larger compounds that need serious help take part.

Bidders have to clear threshold conditions first, including proving the project is not viable on its own. The authority then sets the maximum sum each compound can win, and picks winners partly on how much they actually ask for. Arbel Altshuler, deputy director general of the authority, said the two earlier Ashkelon calls both produced winners, and that a first building permit under them is due in the coming months.

Our figure, please check it. NIS 148.5 million out of the roughly NIS 600 million programme is about 24.8 percent of the whole pot going out in a single round.

Why it matters: a subsidised compound is one the state has already judged unviable at market terms. That is useful information if you are weighing an Ashkelon apartment with a renewal promise attached. Related: state funding for urban renewal.

Appealing a Betterment Levy Almost Always Cuts the Bill

The betterment levy, heitel hashbacha, is a municipal charge on the rise in your land value caused by an approved planning decision. It often lands as a surprise six figure line on a closing statement. If you dispute the amount, the case goes to a shamai makria, a deciding appraiser. We explain the mechanics in the betterment levy when selling property in Israel.

The question nobody usually answers is simple: does appealing actually work? Two things published on this say yes, and they agree with each other.

The solid one is official. The State Comptroller audited the system and found that in about 95 percent of cases sent to a deciding appraiser, the assessment came down. On a random sample of 60 rulings from 2022, covering assessments written by 34 local committees, the average cut was 36 percent. The same audit counted 6,991 appeals filed across all districts between 2018 and 2022. Local authorities collected roughly NIS 8.7 billion in betterment levies in 2021 alone.

The new one is a study by Dr. Asaf Gastfreund, an appraiser and lawyer, reported on August 12 by Nadlan Center. It reviewed all 2,097 deciding appraiser rulings from October 2024 to September 2025. It reports that 95.9 percent came in below the committee’s figure, that the median cut was 37.8 percent, that 6.2 percent were cancelled outright, and that only 2.9 percent went up. For Tel Aviv Yafo it reports 98 percent of 514 charges reduced, with an average cut of 63.3 percent and a median of 71.5 percent. Holon, Lod, Petah Tikva and Givatayim follow. Mateh Yehuda, Rehovot, Kfar Saba, Haifa and Ashdod show the smallest cuts, all under 30 percent on average.

Treat the second set as partly verified. We could not obtain the study itself and no second outlet has reported it, so those city level numbers rest on one report. Note also that the article’s headline quotes an average cut of about 44 percent while its body gives a median of 37.8 percent. Those are two different measures of the same data, not a contradiction, but they are not interchangeable.

Our figure, please check it. The comptroller counted 6,991 appeals over five years, about 1,400 a year. The new study counts 2,097 rulings in a single year. That is roughly 50 percent more volume flowing through the same channel than the earlier period averaged.

Why it matters: if your levy assessment runs to tens of thousands of shekels or more, the published record says a counter assessment is very likely to save you money, and very unlikely to cost you any. You have 45 days from the assessment notice to challenge it.

Prosecutors Weigh Charges Against a Kiryat Bialik Deputy Mayor

The Tax and Economics Prosecution told lawyers on Monday that it is considering charging Yossi Azriel, the deputy and acting mayor of Kiryat Bialik. Also named are his sons Tom and Ben Azriel, the family company, and other real estate companies with their owners and officers. Among the companies under suspicion are Mega Or Motzkin and Pisgot Nihul.

The suspected offences include bribery, breach of trust and money laundering, each according to the person’s alleged part. A hearing comes first. No charges have been filed.

The allegation covers 2018 to 2022. During that period Azriel served as deputy and acting mayor, chaired the local planning and building committee, and held posts in municipal corporations. Those roles put him in regular contact with council professionals, committee members and developers working in the city. From 2019 until March 2022 he is suspected of working with his two sons to advance their own business interests through those roles. The three set up a company called Ritav, which prosecutors suspect was used as a channel to receive benefits from developers whose projects came before the committee he chaired. Lahav 433’s national fraud unit ran the investigation.

The municipality said it trusts law enforcement, that everyone is presumed innocent, and that the suspicions concern the local planning and building committee rather than the running of the council. Reported by Nadlan Center, with Radio Haifa also reporting the case. Azriel had not responded at the time of publication.

Why it matters: planning committees decide which projects move and which stall. A case like this can freeze approvals in a city for months, which matters if you hold an apartment there waiting on a renewal plan.

Ma’ale Adumim Opens Sales on Its First Renewal Compound

Ben David Group has opened pre-sales for Migdalei Adumim, a renewal project in the Klei Shir neighbourhood of Ma’ale Adumim. Pre-sale means the developer is taking buyers now, before building. Nothing has been built yet, and no source confirms a building permit has been issued.

The site runs to 33 dunam across Rehov HaKeren and Rehov HaAsor. A dunam is 1,000 square metres. Two long four storey housing blocks stand there now, holding 147 flats and 17 shops. The plan replaces them with 750 homes in seven towers, the tallest at 31 floors and the other six at 26, plus about 3,000 square metres of shops. The architects are Bitman Ben Tzur.

The real milestone is bigger than one city. Ma’ale Adumim Municipality, quoted by Kol Ha’ir when the Higher Planning Council in Beit El approved the plan, called it the first approval of its kind for pinui binui in Ma’ale Adumim and in Judea and Samaria as a whole. Nadlan Center reported the same point in September 2025. This became possible after an order signed in December 2024 by the head of Central Command, Aluf Avi Bluth, applied Israel’s urban renewal law there.

Two dates matter. The Government Authority for Urban Renewal declared the compound in the summer of 2025, announced around 4 September 2025 as part of a batch of 13 compounds. The pre-sale launch is the new event, not the declaration. Ynet and Magdilim reported in November 2025 that financing came from Ruby Capital, with project revenue expected at about NIS 1.36 billion. The first tower is planned on extra land bought from the Israel Land Authority, so residents move into new homes before the old blocks come down.

On the prices, read carefully. The developer’s release quotes 4 room homes of 104.5 square metres from NIS 2,387,939, 5 room homes of 133.5 square metres from NIS 2,984,618, and 6 room homes of 149 square metres from NIS 3,240,585. We could not verify any of these. They appear in the developer’s own announcement and nowhere else. Ben David Group’s website publishes no price list. One outlet describes them as time limited pre-sale pricing. They are asking prices for the cheapest home of each type, not sale prices, and they leave out the penthouses and garden apartments. Treat them as the developer’s opening ask.

One caution on sourcing. Three outlets carried this story, but all three print the same developer press release word for word. That is one source repeated, not three. The physical facts above stand because they were independently documented by the municipality and by reporting from 2025, before the release existed. The split of 170 homes in the tall tower and 580 in the other six comes only from the release, so we have left it out. The developer’s own website still shows an older design of 29 and 23 floors, which is a superseded version of the plan.

Our figure, please check it. Replacing 147 homes with 750 on the same 33 dunam is about 5.1 times the homes. Density rises from about 4.5 homes per dunam to about 22.7.

Why it matters: a pre-sale launch is a marketing event, not a construction start. Before you sign on any renewal project, check whether a building permit exists and who else is on the plan. Our guide to an urban renewal buyer risk check covers what to verify, and off plan buyer protections explains how your money should be held.

Tiberias Wants to Freeze Building Around Its Old Market

The Tiberias local planning and building committee put an unusual item on its agenda for Wednesday afternoon. It is a notice under sections 77 and 78 of the Planning and Building Law. In plain terms, that is a legal pause. It lets a planning body stop new permits in an area while it prepares a plan, so nobody can rush a building through under the old rules.

We read the committee’s own agenda rather than relying on the news report. Sub committee meeting number 202609, held 12 August 2026 at 16:30, item 3, plan number 207-1616556, titled “Lev Ha’ir Tiberias, Compound 5, notice under sections 77 and 78”. The agenda document is public, and the meeting is listed on the Tiberias committee register.

The area covered is 119.689 dunam. The city engineer’s written recommendation places it south of the city garden on Rehov HaPrachim, with Rehov HaShiloach to the west and Rehov HaGalil to the east, taking in the Ahva neighbourhood and the municipal market compound down to the cemetery in the south.

The freeze is partial, not total. This matters if you own there. The agenda text allows the licensing authority to permit repairs, maintenance and structural strengthening of lawful existing buildings for safety or accessibility, as long as no floor area is added and no relief is granted. Public buildings, open space, roads and infrastructure are outside it. Permit applications already in spatial review or already conditionally approved are not caught. The conditions run for three years from publication, or until the plan is deposited for public objections, whichever comes first.

The plan is being drawn by the firm Ehrlich Roginsky Urban Architecture. The planner of record named on the agenda is Hanoch Roginsky. His partner, Dr. Hava Ehrlich, spoke to Magdilim about the compound and described a vision built around small scale tourism and hotels in the market quarter. That vision is hers. The plan’s stated purpose in the official file is different and broader: an urban centre combining housing, mixed uses and public space, balancing heritage conservation with new development.

This sits inside a longer process. The Ministry of Construction and Housing promoted a Lev Ha’ir master plan, which the Northern District Committee adopted as a policy document in March 2022, as reported by Mynet Emek and Kol HaGalil. Adopted as policy is not the same as approved in law. A separate plan for Compound 1, around the tomb of the Rambam, was scheduled to go to the district committee in mid June 2026. We found no record that the district committee has actually ruled on it.

Our figure, please check it. The master plan was adopted in March 2022. This week’s freeze notice for Compound 5 comes 53 months later.

Why it matters: if you own or are buying in central Tiberias, a sections 77 and 78 notice can stall a permit for up to three years. It is also a signal that the city intends to redevelop the area, which usually supports land values even while it blocks building. Our note on buying rental property in Tiberias covers the wider market there.

For the site’s editors: four updates, no new pages

These four stories are real and verified, but the site already owns each beat. Writing new pages for them would create duplicates. Add the line to the existing post instead.

  • ID 84192, 70000-homes-to-replace-haifas-oil-tanks. Add: “On 11 August 2026 the National Planning and Building Council approved the environmental survey guidelines for compounds 3 and 4, the last two. Together they hold more than 4,750 homes, about 8 million square metres of employment space in compound 3 and 5.8 million in compound 4, and a 5,000 dunam park around the Kishon.”
  • ID 62055, fast-tracking-israels-skyline-inside-the-18-month-urban-renewal-revolution. Add: “Update, 12 August 2026: the 18 month target now has a mechanism. Planning Administration director general Rafi Elmaliah and Government Urban Renewal Authority head Yuri Gamerman have proposed an accelerated planning track that scraps the serial approval chain and puts the local committee, the district committee and the developer to work in parallel from day one, with a joint round table, an early planning appraisal viability test and binding short timetables. Entry is voluntary but criteria based.”
  • ID 60522, opinion-a-victory-for-israeli-homebuyers-as-court-curbs-hidden-index-tactics. Add: “Update, 12 August 2026: the Beersheba District Court has gone a step further. Judge Gil Daniel found that Kochav HaNegev falsely claimed its Ashkelon Mechir LaMishtaken plot had never been formally handed over, ruling the land was in fact delivered in June 2018 rather than June 2020. The 20 month construction index linkage on apartment prices therefore ran from the earlier date, and the difference falls on the company, not the state or the buyers.”
  • ID 84273, home-sales-are-frozen-mortgages-just-hit-a-record. Add: “Update, 12 August 2026: the lenders are not the constraint. Bank Leumi posted a NIS 2.83 billion second quarter profit, the largest quarter any Israeli bank has ever reported, up 8.5 percent year on year at a 16.3 percent return on equity, on a credit book of NIS 566 billion that grew 9 percent in the first half with non performing loans at 0.45 percent. Bank Hapoalim reported NIS 2.5 billion and lifted its payout ratio to 50 percent with a NIS 995 million dividend due 27 August.”

Checked and not shipped

Two sweeps ran today, at 07:00 and at 11:00, covering 11 August 00:00 through 12 August 11:00. Together they gathered about 2,750 raw items and clustered them into roughly 100 distinct stories. Most were dropped. The reasons are worth recording, because several looked publishable until they were checked.

  • A study claiming church land costs Jerusalem owners nearly NIS 1 billion. We found and read the underlying academic paper, CESifo Working Paper 12899 by Givati and Rigbi, dated 4 August 2026. Every academic finding checked out. The NIS 1 billion headline figure does not appear anywhere in the paper.
  • A Beit Shemesh synagogue rebuild. The claim that nine people died in the public shelter beneath it is contradicted by the official investigation, which found two of the nine were inside the shelter. Dropped.
  • A report that 6,000 building workers are stuck abroad because Israel hit its quota. The Hebrew original says the opposite. The workers passed screening in their home countries and the manpower corporations are not bringing them in. The cause is inverted.
  • Amot’s quarterly results. The financial spine held against the company’s own filing, but the framing “Israel’s biggest office landlord” is false and appears in no source.
  • A Tel Aviv developer said to be cancelling 88 approved homes. The city’s own planning file shows the committee expressly authorised converting residential floor area to employment floor area in January 2020. The developer is using a permitted option, not cancelling anything.
  • Two court stories, on holdout owners and on building defects. Neither outlet published a case number, so no court record could be found. Single source, dropped.
  • Amot Q2 and TOHA 2, a NIS 13.9m TAMA 38 holdout suit, an Ashdod mould ruling, Lod HaMatzbiim, Ma’ale Adumim marketing copy, Holon Neot Rachel and East Jerusalem plans. All single source, sponsored, or with no planning or court primary.
  • Several deal and campaign stories where three apparent sources turned out to be one company press release reprinted word for word.
  • Over covered beats held back on purpose: the split market, contractor discounts and credit, Tel Aviv resale declines, the Bank of Israel rate, and the discounted housing lottery.

Sources we could not reach: maya.tase.co.il is blocked from our network on web, REST and RSS. The gov.il declared compounds register returned a Cloudflare block, and the national planning portal at mavat.iplan.gov.il and ags.iplan.gov.il is geo blocked from our crawler, so plan 207-1616556 could not be cross checked there. The subreddit r/IsraelRealEstate no longer exists. X remains a standing gap. TheMarker items are behind a paywall beyond the opening paragraphs. The Gastfreund study itself is not published online.

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Written by Chaim Semerenko and the Semerenko Group team
Founder and CEO, Semerenko Group

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