Netanyahu to ‘tent city’ protesters: Come to Jerusalem and help me pass real estate reforms

unless they come and sit on his lawn. Gimme a break. The man is incapable of anything except sitting pat on any and all urgent needs. Except to let Lieberman pass idiotic laws to punish independent thinkers. But real action to help citizens?

and giving the residents discount prices on mortgages, roads, security, Egged bus rides, you name it. And yes, the right hand does know what the left hand is spending, and hopes that the residents of Israel proper don't make the connection. PULEASE

The main problem is not government its Israeli culture. Israel's live in a ghetto like culture where different parts of the country are unofficially alloted for different groups. The orthodox Jews want to live in Jerusalem, and the Yeshe, arabs live in the Galilee and then you have the secular Jews who live in the coastal regions and this ghetto mentality creates a land shortage so the rules of supply and demand come into play .. you want property you pay for it. Developers pay a high price to buy land so they have to sell apartments for high prices so the people who buy the apartments to rent out have to get their money back through high rents. Before anything else can be done the mentality must be changed because there is no point developing other parts of the country if nobody is going to move. Then we have the problem that the prices are so high that most Israeli's can no longer afford to buy homes and they end up being bought up by rich westerners looking for holiday homes or investors looking to buy these places and rent them out. One thing that is a growing problem and thats in attempts to modernise the cities old buildings are being bought by developers pulled down and replaced by the luxury new builds and it takes years for prices in these place to come down because they are new. Property prices in Israel as a whole have always been expensive but as for these people in tent city they are complaining about prices being to high in Tel Aviv, which is one of the most expensive cities in the world to buy properties and purchase costs will naturally be passed on to people wanting to rent and the government can't bring down the prices. Israel is not the socialist utopia it once was today the free markets have a much bigger role to play in all things. Also where are these people complaining they can't afford to rent in Tel Aviv? .. If they want to live in a nice area then they are going to pay for it through high rentals but if they want to live in an area like say Hatikvah where your neighbors will be people in low income jobs and foreign workers then they won't have any trouble with rents. You go to a city like London or New York there are parts of the city where its beyond the reach of most people to even rent but then there are other areas which are not as nice but people can afford to live there. The government can do more by invest in developing the Negev which they seem to be trying to do and Judaizing the Galilee, get these secular Jews out the centre and into the Galilee. All things that successive governments have talked about for decades but never really done much about on a large scale. Prehaps when we ended the obsession with the peace process being the be all and end all of issues that governments must dedicate all their time to then more Knesset time might get allocated to housing problems.

To West jeruslem is OK. East jerusalem should be respected as it belongs to Palestinians.

Dump it.

Dump it.

everybody holes themselves up in these cities. they are nice, but not that great. children do not know how to live outside these places anymore. the horror. but yes, israel needs to build to meet the demand but living in the periphery isn't that bad, except that transportation SUCKS. so...

I have been wating 18 months to buy a poece of sand and rock in the dessert. There are 180 plot ready with infrastructure (electric/gas/water) completed. However, there is no date for when the land registry wil be ready to sell the plots. It take years to get the necessary permits and license to build. My kids are growing up wondering if they will ever live in the house we keep talking about. :(

It is insane that we do not have a government that can see ahead and offer solutions to a growing crisis. Just deal with Israel's banks that in itself is a horror. Why can't Israel build on top of what exists in Jerusalem for young and old alike. Those who are lucky enough to have homes there if there hearts are open let the Government build homes above them. Build cities on top of cities. Create higher paying jobs for the young. Offer loans for business start-ups. Make Israel the center of the world for freedom and kindness to it's citizens. Attract all Jews worldwide to come. Show Jewish the world over that Israel is there home for now and most impotently the future.