Episode Details

When Daniel and his family moved to Israel, they expected the same social safety net they saw in healthcare and animal welfare. Instead, they found a rental market where landlords can evict with 30 days' notice — no reason required. This episode traces the historical arc from biblical land redistribution and Jubilee laws, through England's Enclosure Acts, to modern Israel's unregulated rental market. We explore why a country that owns 93% of its land has chosen not to regulate tenancy, what Jewish legal tradition actually says about eviction, and how the financialization of housing in the 1990s created today's crisis. A story about values, property, and the gap between what a society claims to believe and how it treats its renters.