Yuval Sde
Amit Gottlieb, vice president of the Haaretz Builders Contractors Association, in response to the decision to leave the interest rate unchanged: "It delays the recovery of the construction industry and burdens both the apartment buyers and the contractors and developers, who face high financing costs and damage to the viability of new projects. Instead of the state encouraging growth and investments from abroad, it continues with its bad decisions, leading us down a path of recession."