NOTES
      1. Ministry of Construction and Housing, 1995 Budget Proposal (Jerusalem: Ministry of Construction and Housing, 1994), pp. 1-90. [Hebrew]

      2. Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, The Economy of Modern Israel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 170-171.

      3. Except, of course, in the special case of market power, in which the supplier's decision to limit supply is the cause of the higher prices.

      4. Yakir Plessner, The Political Economy of Israel: From Ideology to Stagnation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), p. 67.

      5. Paul Rivlin, "Mass Immigration and the Sale of Public Land," Policy Studies Update No. 1, (Jerusalem: Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, February 1991), p. 3.

      6. Ha 'aretz, July 26, 1995.

      7. Paul Rivlin, "Mass Immigration," p. 6.

      8. Ibid. p. 5

      9. Ha 'aretz, August 15, 1995.

      10. Central Bureau of Statistics, 1988-1991 Monthly Bulletin of Statistics XLIII, no. 10 (Jerusalem: Central Bureau of Statistics, October 1992), p. 106.

      11. See Paul Rivlin, "Mass Immigration," pp. 7-10.

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