{"id":3066,"date":"2009-06-16T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:34:37","slug":"real-state-of-israels-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2009\/06\/16\/08\/34\/real-state-of-israels-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Real State of Israel’s Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most settlers take out long-term mortgages on units in multistory apartment buildings. Detached, single-family homes are hard to find in the densely populated settlements. Low-price rentals are often available directly from the state, sometimes for less than $150 per month … according to an Israeli report, many settlements were developed on land owned privately by Palestinians with neither compensation nor consent.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A young newlywed couple is walking to the bus stop: 21-year-old Aharon and his 19-year-old wife, Elisheva. They speak nearly perfect Hebrew despite having grown up in the United States and having settled permanently in Israel just a few months ago, after Aharon completed his army service in the ultra-Orthodox Nahal unit … The couple pay their rent, NIS 550 a month, to the settlement secretariat … Aharon doesn’t look upset when he hears that his trailer sits on private land. It doesn’t really interest him. “I don’t care what the state says, the Torah says that the entire Land of Israel is ours.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most settlers take out long-term mortgages on units in multistory apartment buildings. Detached, single-family homes are hard to find in the densely populated settlements. Low-price rentals are often available directly from the state, sometimes...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1043,1040,1044,1046,217,1042,1039,218,1041,1045,1047],"tags":[1830,1827,1831,1833,1405,1829,1826,1406,1828,1832,1834],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baruch-spiegel","category-colonisation","category-eretz-yisrael-hashlemah","category-ha-aretz-ha-muvtachat","category-israel","category-nahal","category-occupation","category-palestine","category-settlement","category-1045","category-1047","tag-baruch-spiegel","tag-colonisation","tag-eretz-yisrael-hashlemah","tag-ha-aretz-ha-muvtachat","tag-israel","tag-nahal","tag-occupation","tag-palestine","tag-settlement","tag-1832","tag-1834"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t