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Who Actually Owns Your Home? The Wild World of Nested Leases
Think you own your home? In Israel, 93% of land is owned by the state and leased rather than sold — and in Jerusalem, the nesting gets even deeper. This episode unpacks the bizarre world of nested leases, where a single apartment can sit under four or more layers of leasehold interests stretching from the Ottoman Empire through the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate to the Israel Land Authority to developers to homeowners. We explore what happens when head leases expire, the legal principle of *nemo dat quod non habet*, and why thousands of Jerusalem homeowners face potential dispossession as…
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