01.06.2011                      28.Ijar, 5771                      Jerusalemtag; Tag 43 des Omer

Siedlungen:

Settler housing starts drop by almost half in first quarter

Number of house completions rises 127% compared to last quarter of 2010, the largest going back to 2007; CBS report says 242 homes started.

The number of West Bank settlers who started work on new homes dropped by 47% in the first quarter of this year, when compared with the last three months of 2010.
The data released on Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics continues to run counter to speculation by the media and left-wing activists that in the aftermath of the 10-month moratorium on such activity that ended on September 26, 2010, there would be a boom in new Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria….