However, perhaps in response to it, the ministry has proposed a series of benefits as inducements for home purchases. The proposed package, among them sites such as Givat Ze'ev and Jerusalem's Har Homa, includes significant reductions in mortgages - and will cost the government NIS 100 million in subsidies. His company has sold only eight of the 76 units they had planned to build in the Emek Ha'ayalot. But because of those eight sales, they cannot return the land to the ministry. In a bind, they, too, have suspended most of their construction.
People already receive tax breaks and other benefits for living in the territories.
Until people feel safe, they are not going to buy here. In just four days this week, four Israelis were killed in terror attacks in the West Bank. Mor-Yosef says that he is not surprised that sales are slow. The Left gave the Palestinians guns, and now the Palestinians are using them to shoot at us. But in the future, when things calm down again, people will want to buy, and so we have to keep building.