Central Bureau of Statistics: There have been no housing starts in Judea and Samaria, because of the building freeze.
The Knesset Finance Committee today approved a NIS 30 million transfer to the claims committee for damages arising from the building freeze in Judea and Samaria, which was declared nine months ago.
Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) said that this was an initial amount. He added that he hoped that the money authorized by the committee would be transferred as quickly as possible to those hurt by the building freeze.
According to the latest Central Bureau of Statistics figures, there have been no housing starts in Judea and Samaria, because of the building freeze. There were 762 housing starts in Judea and Samaria in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 1,873 in 2009 as a whole.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on August 10, 2010
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