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House prices during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how house prices changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#Prime ministerIn officeTotalPer yearChart
1 Benjamin Netanyahu31 Mar 2009 – 13 Jun 2021 +119% Feb 2009 → May 2021+6.6%/yr
2Yamina Naftali Bennett13 Jun 2021 – 1 Jul 2022 +19.7% May 2021 → Jun 2022+18.0%/yr
3 Benjamin Netanyahu18 Jun 1996 – 6 Jul 1999 +14.1% May 1996 → Jun 1999+4.4%/yr
4 Ehud Olmert4 Jan 2006 – 31 Mar 2009 +10.9% Dec 2005 → Feb 2009+3.3%/yr
5 Benjamin Netanyahu29 Dec 2022 – now +3.9% Nov 2022 → Jul 2026+1.1%/yr
6 Ariel Sharon7 Mar 2001 – 4 Jan 2006 −0.9% Feb 2001 → Dec 2005−0.2%/yr
7 Ehud Barak6 Jul 1999 – 7 Mar 2001 −5.8% Jun 1999 → Feb 2001−3.6%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. index, 2024 = 100 · The Central Bureau of Statistics' dwellings price index (40010), transactions in owner-occupied dwellings over two months, not adjusted for inflation · Israel data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Central Bureau of Statistics (dwelling prices, rents, employee jobs and wages from National Insurance reports), Israel Police (case files, via data.gov.il), OECD (quarterly national accounts, infra-annual labour statistics, consumer prices, regional database), Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; mayors checked against the municipal election results. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy