There will be a critical housing shortage in Israel next year unless private building is accelerated, Mordechai Ben-Tov, the Minister of Housing warned the Knesset yesterday. He said that the country required 27,000 new flats yearly, otherwise Israel would face a shortage of 10,000 apartments minimum by mid 1969.
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