Israel’s Rental Jungle: Gathering War Stories for Reform

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Jun 14, 2026 · 27m

Israel’s rental market is a jungle. The 2017 Fair Rental Law promised reform but failed—no registry, no enforcement, no data. For a tenant, a leaky ceiling can mean a 30-day eviction notice. For an advocate, gathering those stories is a research design problem: you need methodology, academic partners, and multilingual surveys to build evidence that policymakers can’t ignore. But the pushback is fierce: landlord lobbyists, supply-side arguments, and aggressive defamation suits designed to bleed nonprofits dry. This episode maps out what it actually takes to fight for tenancy reform—from…