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[quote=Anonymous]Living in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is very expensive. TLV is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Israelis who have long standing ties to the country (eg, their family has been there for 50+ years) tend to own a lot of real estate. My friends in TLV all live in inherited housing or had significant family help in buying their home.

If you want to have a couple of kids and you are newer arrival to the country, you are truly  priced out of the nicer areas. So then you start looking at home out in the countryside settlements not far from the borders of the West Bank or Gaza. New housing, affordable, tight knit communities, pastoral setting to raise kids - it's sort of ideal. Particularly during COVID when people were trying to get out of the city. The settlements near Gaza tend to be a bit more moderate in their politics.

In contrast, the hardcore orthodox are moving into "illegal" settlements in the West Bank. Essentially, they are walled-off pockets of settlements surrounded by Palestinians. They are purposely moving to these places for political reasons, plus cheap housing.

It was widely considered to be much more dangerous to live in the West Bank settlements than those that were attacked in the Hamas raid this past weekend. That's why they were so lightly defended. Further, all these settlements come with secured safe rooms, but reports state that Hamas set the houses on fire and these safe rooms became literal ovens. [/quote]

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