Israel’s Rental Jungle: Gathering War Stories for Reform

Israel’s rental market is a jungle. The 2017 Fair Rental Law promised reform but failed—no registry, no enforcement, no data. For a tenant, a leaky ceiling can mean a 30-day eviction notice. For an advocate, gathering those stories is a research design problem: you need methodology, academic partners, and multilingual surveys to build evidence that policymakers can’t ignore. But the pushback is fierce: landlord lobbyists, supply-side arguments, and aggressive defamation suits designed to bleed nonprofits dry. This episode maps out what it actually takes to fight for tenancy reform—from structured surveys and comparative law to SLAPP-proof legal strategies and five-year horizons. If you’ve ever wondered what the front lines of social reform look like, this is the playbook.