{"id":571650,"date":"2026-08-02T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571650\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:01:08","slug":"idf-reservists-major-winners-of-israeli-housing-lottery-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571650\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF reservists major winners of Israeli housing lottery &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (Aug. 2, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>About 60% of winners in the latest round of Israel\u2019s housing lottery project are active Israel Defense Forces reservists, Channel 12 reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The housing lottery, an Israeli government project that allocates apartments to eligible household registrants at discounted prices, has now run its 11th consecutive round.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Construction and Housing started sending winning notifications on Sunday morning for 7,922 households out of a total of 114,848 applicants, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 6.9% of registered households won the right to buy one of the apartments offered in the lottery, the report continued.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time the program provided a preference for reserve soldiers, who have been participating in the ongoing war since Oct. 7, 2023, with approximately 50% of the apartments in the lottery reserved for active reservists.<\/p>\n<p>And about half of the apartments allocated to reservists were designated specifically for combat soldiers, aligned with the Israel Land Authority Council\u2019s decision, according to Channel 12.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 25,394 reservists registered for the lottery, of whom 4,734 were selected, which is nearly one in every five reservist applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Reservists won the right to buy 60% of the apartments, rather than just the 50% allocated specifically to them, because they are also eligible to apply for the general lottery pool, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 2, 2026 \/ JNS) About 60% of winners in the latest round of Israel\u2019s housing lottery project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-571650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}