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Taming Israel’s Housing Prices to Test Rising Star Kahlon

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Moshe Kahlon, who’s been designated to become Israel’s next finance minister, has promised to rein in surging home prices the same way he slashed mobile phone service fees as communications minister.

It won’t be that easy, said Ben-Zion Zilberfarb, a former Finance Ministry director-general.