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This land is your land, this land is our land Sixty-six years after the British Mandate enacted the Land Expropriations Law in this country, the Knesset Finance Committee last week approved the second and third readings of a bill that would amend the law. There are detractors to this amendment, however, who claim it both infringes on property rights and does not rectify the state's historic injustices to land owners going back 25 years or more.
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Trying to sell land nobody wants won't lower housing prices in IsraelFrom his first day on the job, Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias has vowed to step up the sale of state land to the public. He says he aims to lower housing prices. In interviews he reiterates his vision of freeing up vast tracts of land for sale. But reality is at odds with the promises: The Shas minister is working hard to create two new cities for the religious community while trying to offer inferior land with various encumbrances elsewhere.
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Hell no, we won't stay For sale signs have recently appeared on many of the new homes in the Yuvalim neighborhood in the town of Karkur, near Haifa. The residents are not planning a mass exodus, but are rather protesting against the local municipal council and the construction company, Naveh-Gad, which have not fulfilled their promise to home buyers to build a public park.
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Shooting and buying Terrorism and war have generally been associated with loss of life and property value. Yet there has been little research into the economic impact, the direct and indirect damage caused, when the hostilities continue over a long time.
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Should Africa Israel be liquidated? Africa Israel Investments is the largest business group so far to ask bondholders to agree to let it reschedule repayments. Naturally, the maneuvers involved are extremely complex and require an intense presence of legal talent. TheMarker asked some legal experts to explain the issues at stake in the week following Lev Leviev's dramatic announcement that the company he controls probably can't repay bondholders on time after 2010.
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