Cabinet Approves Housing Benefits for National Priority Areas
(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

The Cabinet this morning (Sunday), 29.1.12, approved housing benefits in
communities in national priority areas.

The benefits include – inter alia – subsidies for development costs up to
NIS 150,000 in agricultural communities and NIS 107,000 in cities, as well
as supplementary housing loans of up to NIS 100,000.

At the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it was also decided
that communities in the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip will enjoy maximum
benefits. He also directed that a decision on adding the communities on the
northern confrontation line be submitted for Cabinet approval within two
weeks.

The decision is designed to encourage positive migration to the communities
and to assist in finding solutions to ease the housing situation. The
decision will also contribute to economically strengthening these
communities.

Among the communities included are: Kiryat Shemona, Beit Shean, Sderot,
Safed, Dimona, Hurfeish, Rama, Maalot-Tarshiha, Nahariya, Upper Nazareth,
Migdal Haemek. Click
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for the full list (in Hebrew).